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Rich Faith Rising

The Girl at CPR, the World’s Oldest Tree, & the Illusion of Public Fame

May 27, 2016 6 Comments

The first time I noticed her was when she lifted her hand, in my husband and I’s CPR class. She was asking a question, with her thick hair, and back sitting straight up, listening. It wasn’t some, “I am trying to be smart” question. Or some, “I am just trying to get attention because I have […]

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Drowning Terrorist Fears And Social Media Wars To Follow Your Calling

November 20, 2015 1 Comment

I’m just as human as the next guy (or gal). I see the black masks, hear the endless media portrayals of what happened in Paris on Friday the 13th. I know the reality. There are hidden cells, people who look just like you and me waiting to go around and blow themselves up… Worse yet, they […]

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Jenner, Media Frenzies, & When Our Spiritual Eyes Are Influenced By Gravity

June 5, 2015 5 Comments

So, He modeled in Vanity Fair, as a girl.  Are we really all that shocked? Don’t we know that darkness seeks hard to tuck itself tight inside holiness, split apart and divide families, take the innocent and devour them slowly? Did we really expect anything different? Satan came to steal, kill, & destroy.  And doesn’t that […]

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Finding God beyond a World of Technology and Screens. UNITE.

September 16, 2014 5 Comments

You never know what you need (and don’t need) until it is gone. I knew I was in trouble when a small, aqua colored light flicked on and off from the right-hand bottom side of my computer.  Like a game of peek-a-boo, the light fleeting fast the moment I connect to the internet. Off and on.  […]

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