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Border Crisis
Turn on the news any time of day right now and you will be inundated with reports about the crisis at the border. It is a complicated problem; a problem that divides people, just like the geographical boundary that divides the United States and Mexico. But taking a look at it from a different perspective,…
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Why are you wailing?
Have you ever tried to hold a squirming toddler? You wrestle, bounce, sing…anything to get her to relax and rest still in your arms. But in her willfulness, she can’t see that if she would let go and just relax, her tension, tears, and distress, would soon melt away. Do you wonder if that is…
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Apple to Oranges…
You have heard the saying, “comparing apples to oranges”? It is where you take two completely different things and compare them to each other, to see which is better. Impossible! The common phrase gives us a picture of how useless comparisons can be. Why then, are we always comparing ourselves to someone else? I know…
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Shell game…
There is an enemy and he is after something in your life and it is the truth. And I fear that we do not take [this] seriously enough…If I were your enemy, I would make you numb and distract you from God’s story.
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Whirlwind…
Martha was so consumed with her list and the tasks that needed to be done, that she completely missed the fact that the Lord God, the Christ, Jesus, was sitting in her living room! Oh, how I can relate!
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Tending the garden…
“Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking…
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Laying out the good towels…
Jesus desires us to sit at the kitchen table and talk to him all night. Can you imagine how awesome that would be? Well, it is still awesome. He is here…in our hearts and anytime we need him, all we need to do is lift our voices and pour out our hearts. He wants to…
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40 Days…
I can do all things through Him who gives me strength! That means when the anxiety and the fear from my daily news feed, or the unexpected happens and my “plan” goes flying out the window, I can lean into Him and he will give me His strength!
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A still small voice…
How easy it is in our busy lives to lose our focus on the Lord! How do you hear the Lord when he is speaking to you, over the chaos of this world? We may not be experiencing rock shattering wind, earthquakes, and fire, simultaneously in our daily lives…but we are all experiencing trials.
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As far as the East is to the West…
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
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