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Forever and Ever: Worlds Without End

Posted on February 26, 2026 by mitchteemley

Forever and Ever: Worlds Without End One of the Most Prominent Phrases… In both theĀ Old and New Testaments is “forever and ever.” It’s usually translated this way because the original Greek, “eon of the eons,” means endless time. But since … Continue reading →

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Is Love the Ultimate Force?

Posted on February 16, 2026 by mitchteemley

From my novelization of the movie Healing River Thought for the Week: Is Love the Ultimate Force? Last Weekend… Most of the world celebrated Valentineā€™s Day, love’s official calendar day. Which, unfortunately, has a rep for being a sales gimmick … Continue reading →

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What’s an Illusion and What Isn’t?

Posted on December 12, 2025 by mitchteemley

Art uniquely reflects both our attraction to and fear of illusions. It strives to reconcile our dueling convictions that, 1) only what we perceive is real and, 2) nothing we perceive is real. So, what’s an illusion and what isn’t? … Continue reading →

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There’s No Such Thing as Nothing

Posted on October 13, 2025 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week The word nothingĀ doesnā€™t mean ā€œnon-existence.ā€ It only means the absence of a specific or expected condition. For example, a buyer might ask a property owner whether there is ā€œanythingā€ on a particular parcel of land. But … Continue reading →

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George Washington and His Quantum Hatchet

Posted on September 17, 2025 by mitchteemley

I once saw a clever juggler who claimed that a hatchet he balanced in his act was the one used by young George Washington to chop down his fatherā€™s cherry tree. ā€œOf course, the handleā€™s been replaced eight times,ā€ he … Continue reading →

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This is Why Time Cannot Be Kept

Posted on April 3, 2025 by mitchteemley

Salvador Dali had it right: Clocks cannot be trusted. Not because they keep poor time, but because time cannot be kept. Instead, it keeps us in cages made of minutes. And yet the solution is not to escape, but to … Continue reading →

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Where Does Our Creator Live?

Posted on March 30, 2025 by mitchteemley

“Traveling through space and not finding God does not mean that space is empty any more than traveling through my body and not finding me means that I am not here.” ~Dallas Willard āˆž

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What Our Creator Has Prepared for Us

Posted on March 23, 2025 by mitchteemley

How much bigger than what we can imagine is what our Creator has prepared for those who love him? There’s a simple formula, actually. Did you see it? It’s… aĀ  xĀ  bĀ  =Ā  c a (what we can imagine) times … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Reality 2.0

Posted on March 14, 2025 by mitchteemley

Reality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Our external senses don’t tell us everything, just enough to function in the world around us, to pretend it’s orderly and makes sense. But meanwhile, there’s a whole other world inside of … Continue reading →

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Is Jesus Still on the Cross?

Posted on March 5, 2025 by mitchteemley

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the traditional season of Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter (the Greek word for Lent means “forty”). So what? That’s just old, dead tradition stuff, right? Even after my conversion, I … Continue reading →

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