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My Music Influences and Experience
Growing up in a Christian home in the Fraser Valley, I was raised on the Christian music of the local radio station then called 106.5 KLYN, what is now known as Praise FM. Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Sandi Patti, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Geoff Moore and the Distance, Keith Green, Rich Mullins, The Winans, Ray Boltz, Paul Janz and our family favourite, Carman.…
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The Ten Commandments: II
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity…
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness can be tough. Someone brings pain and destruction to the life of another and we’re supposed to forgive them? What does that exactly mean? To forgive. I’ve grown up with certain conceptions of forgiveness, but until I began to practice it as the Bible teaches, I didn’t really understand how important it is to maintaining a life of true…
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The Ten Commandments: I
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2-3) To me, this commandment signifies that God demands our focus and attention on Him alone when it comes to divine things or objects of worship. Until recently I often…
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Representing Jesus in the MMORPG World
As a Christian I feel led to do two important things regularly — to represent Jesus in the world and to fellowship with other believers. As an avid online video game player, this led me to think of the millions of people who spend much of their time online engaged in the social competitions and collaborations of online role-playing games.…
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Loving Work
When I was younger and not as mature as I am now, I dreaded a vital part of life that I now greatly value and enjoy — working. In my 20s life was a prison to me. I did not choose to be born into this society, yet I was forced to labour for the majority of my life just…