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Some of you know that my “day job” is working in IT, more specifically, software development. At various points, a software developer will want to test what they have coded up to be certain it is behaving as desired and not producing any negative side effects. To do so, the developer must execute what is…

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Years ago, I worshipped with a small group of believers who did a church plant in Bellingham, Washington. They named the plant, “Oikos,” a transliteration of the Greek term οἶκος, which simply means “house.” I thought it was a pretty cool name for a church plant. But variations on the term οἶκος take us in…

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