Who doesn’t like the 23rd Psalm and the idyllic pastoral scene that passes through the mind as you hear the words? I think David might object to his psalm being a mainstay in funerals, but
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I had forgotten the sound, but I remember it now. Standing in a New England woods, watching the autumn leaves drift through the canopy, I flash back. I remember tumbling through giant piles of leaves,
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Contentment is a new skill I’m learning to develop. Like any new skill, it requires frequent repetition, trial and error.
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The annual gathering happened two days before Thanksgiving. Each year, most of the churches in the small town where I pastored gathered for a community Thanksgiving service. A different church hosted the event each year,
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Even during those times when our circumstances are anything but good, we can be grateful because God’s goodness doesn’t change.
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Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 When I read this verse
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A new director at the company where I worked had a Get-To-Know-Me meeting with all his employees. We grudgingly showed up for another dog-and-pony show by a new boss intending to increase our morale. But
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Who do we look like? Were we the spitting image of our mother or father at birth, as a child, or now? Maybe there’s a resemblance to both our parents or not to either one. Perhaps people
Read moreJesus Hiding In Prayers for His Own (John 17:6-19)
The statement is true: Living in Christ is out of this world! Father, I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and
Read moreDefying Defeat
“For a poor skinny kid from Birmingham, Alabama, who felt like a zero, a nothing with no ambition, my opportunities have been amazing! By all that is logical, I should never have been born and
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