Close to Home https://www.patheos.com/blogs/closetohome/ Today's decisions create tomorrow's directions for God's people. We look in two places for the Hand of God, pointing us to the right way: the Bible and the media. Whatever the Spirit speaks to us in both places, the Word of God always hits close to home--here or in Heaven. 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