Posted in God's supremacy on Dec 23rd, 2014
At one time or another, we’ve all felt like David did when people we counted on had let us down.
Fortunately, our lives haven’t been stuck in such sentiments.
When they have occurred for you, though, I pray that you’ve had the confidence to go to the One person who could help you through the darkness.
“You are […]
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Posted in intercession on Nov 21st, 2014
We’re all wired to be heroes.
Not like with the movies and the recurring rescues from beasts or thugs or natural disasters, but with real-life crisis threats.
I’m talking about the threat of emotional collapse when someone we know feels that nobody cares about him or her.
I’m talking about the threat […]
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Posted in endurance on Sep 11th, 2014
They had lost their homes, their jobs and many of their family and friends. And they had been forced to leave their beloved Jerusalem.
In fact, one of their beloved leaders had been murdered and countless numbers of people they loved had been thrown into prison.
All because of loving and living for a man who […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Sep 5th, 2014
The Old West wasn’t tamed by farmers who quit work at lunchtime.
Instead, there was feeding animals at sunrise, planting seed in the morning, plowing and mending fences in the early afternoon and repairing barns and checking on animals in the late afternoon until it was dark.
Though the order might have varied from farmer to farmer, […]
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Posted in Patience on Aug 14th, 2014
Sometimes, the Gospel is served when our egos are suppressed.
It’s never pleasant when a non-Christian says or does something offensive to us.
And it’s an emotional stretch sometimes when we choose to forgo the purchase of a much-wanted item so that we might donate the money to a truly needy person or […]
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