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My grandmother, Juanita Saxon, went to sleep in the Lord in May of 2017. She passed after a long, strenuous battle with congestive heart failure (and other ailments). My grandmother was, to me, the very picture of Christian faithfulness. By her last breath she had fully formed her life into the image of her Lord, sharing in his passion in her own, and finding herself finally to be alive and ready to be at rest in him.

In 1 Peter 1:13, the writer says, “Therefore, having girded the loins of your mind…”  What a strange phrase!  “Gird your loins”?  What...