Keith Hill

How the Lord Grows Our Faith A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the value of faith is determined more by the object of one’s faith than it is by the sincerity of one’s faith.

How the Lord Grows Our Faith
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Doing It the King's Way Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination prompted many discussions about faith and politics, some of them quite helpful.

Doing It the King's Way
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Wading into political waters a bit this week. If you find this weekly offering helpful, it's free to subscribe. Blessings!

Faith that Holds I remember little from philosophy classes, but one professor’s claim has helped me for years in understanding the nature of faith.

Faith that Holds
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Works of a Master Artist Sarah and I just returned from a two-week trip to Belgium and Uganda.

Works of a Master Artist
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The Cheering Section Good news: football launches this weekend!

The Cheering Section
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It's football season! And that prompted a few thoughts on the joy of serving the Lord. If you find this weekly epistle helpful, you can subscribe for free, and it will come to you. And Roll Tide!

Peacemaker musts:
1. More long range weapons and defensive weapons for Ukraine, along with more sanctions on Russia.
2. A plan for a Gaza ceasefire, with Arabic country peace force, and an emerging plan for two states.
Peace will be hard regardless, and impossible otherwise.

Serpents and Doves Following up on last week’s word on wisdom, here’s an interesting spin that Jesus gives it.

Serpents and Doves
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Wise Up! The Dictionary defines “wisdom” as “accumulated philosophic or scientific learning; insight; and good sense.” Good enough.

Wise Up!
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The Master of Mirth Ever been with someone who’s slow to catch jokes?

The Master of Mirth
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Why might you be looking for some humor? It has to do with image of the One who made you. My weekly thoughts. Subscribe if you find it helpful. It's free.

Goodness No Matter How You Slice It Last week our family gathered in the Shenandoah Valley to celebrate our 50th anniversary.

Goodness No Matter How You Slice It
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Ponderings While Walking in the Park Theological ponderings can arise from reading the scripture, conversations, events, worship services, etc.

Ponderings While Walking in the Park
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Living Up to My Name We called him Pop.

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Seasons of Serving This week my thoughts are focused on the latter seasons of life, and our service to the Lord.

Seasons of Serving
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Opinion | The obvious peril of federal agents in masks They demand the right to be anonymous, and blur the line between law enforcement and lawlessness.

After celebrating one thing Trump has done right (restoring weapons shipments to Ukraine), here's something he's doing that is terribly wrong: masks on federal agents. Here's a great take on it: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

So much bad news coming out of the current administration. But there is some good news: President Trump has restarted weapons delivery to Ukraine. Cutting them off was a travesty. But at least he has restarted!

Illusions, Ideals, and the Fourth Someone once helped me understand the benefit of a particular kind of pain: disillusionment.

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Noah's Hope How do you fix a broken world?

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It's more than a kid's story -- it points to our great hope. These are my latest weekly thoughts on faith and life. If you find them helpful, subscribe for free, and they'll come to you.

Much Obliged “It was less easy to remake me than to make me...

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Let's Not Go Back Virginia has been on a long journey.

Let's Not Go Back
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25,568 and Counting “The years of our lives are threescore and ten, or by reason of strength, fourscore.” That’s the King James wording of Psalm 90:10 – interestingly, the only Psalm attributed to Moses.

25,568 and Counting
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An observation on life: When I am out taking a walk by myself and speak to a child, the parents look like they are ready to call the cops on some dirty old man. But when I get to take a walk with my lovely wife, and we speak to a child, the parents look quite welcoming! Funny how that works.

What Works as a Center? Our grandson, Jack, is graduating from high school this weekend.

What Works as a Center?
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GOP won’t install Jan. 6 plaque honoring law enforcement, Democrats say More than three years after it was approved by Congress, a plaque honoring members of law enforcement for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is instead sitting in a Capitol basement utility room.

A total disgrace...
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Behold! Following last week's thoughts on the pace of life in the Kingdom, here are a few more thoughts on how pace impacts what we see.

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Yet another reason to celebrate the culture impacting faith of Bono and U2: as they lift up the heroism of artists in Ukraine fighting for freedom from Russian tyranny. I'm eager to see Bono's documentary.

The Pace of the Kingdom As I draw in on my 70th birthday, I’m now at that place in life from which I can survey all of the amazing technological advances I’ve seen.

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“You’ve Got Mail” – Thoughts From Thirty Years On I was reading through my 1995 prayer journal, and found that Sarah and I were going over to our friends, the Davises, to see something new they had on their computer – AOL.

“You’ve Got Mail” – Thoughts From Thirty Years On
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Crosses Are Trending – How About With You? Earlier this week I was surprised to read in the New York Times that crosses are trending as fashion accessories.

Crosses Are Trending – How About With You?
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Why I’m Praying for the Next Pope Church life is marvelously simple and incredibly complex.

Why I’m Praying for the Next Pope
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Give Up Your Arm, and Call It Peace When they call surrender a solution, and expect Ukraine to thank them for it.

Imagine demanding Trump to cede Florida to an enemy who bombed Washington, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and every major city in America, tortured civilians, and laughed in your face while doing it. by @vikvkravchuk open.substack.com/pub/viktorkr...