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Since the fall of the first Adam, the consistency in the desperate wickedness of man have proven over and over again that without Jesus man cannot function effectively. If you read through the books of the Bible, it’s easy to spot the fruits of wickedness of man. None of the prevalent sins fighting our world today are new. Recycled and rebranded? Yes. We’ve done a good job giving new names to the different forms of sins that plague our society but these sins aren’t new they are ancient.  Our world is searching for answers in everything but the one who made everything. Things like our ancestors, ourselves, the universe, man made gods, money, creatures, animals etc. What baffles me is that those things only came to be because the one who made everything made them be, yet we worship anything but the creator himself. The good news is, the creator who existed before the fall of man and still existing is ANCIENT BUT VERY RELEVANT and is the answer we need. It’s saddening that a lot of pe...

  Google says home is the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household, but that changed for me at the age of 16. I had to leave the people, places and the very things that I called home. Joy filled my heart at the prospect of being able to get a higher education, I packed my bags with things that would remind me of home in hopes to mask the pain my heart was also feeling. Hours later. Here I was in a foreign land, my new home. A new continent, country, state, city, culture, people, food, and a new climate. Months turned to years and this foreign land become my home. The people my people, the culture my culture, the city my city. I made friends that became family. The city became a beauty I looked forward to beholding. I looked forward to the different season the weather had to offer, and I soak them all in. Despite the challenges that came with leaving my home country, I was able to make home of this new city.   Minnesota is known for its...