Life is a mess, nationally and personally, but even in the midst of chaos, we can be truly glad. What are you waiting expectantly for? A raise? A vacation? A day of peace and quiet? New government leaders who can fix all our problems? (Ha… keep waiting.) Friends, we are…
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The Giver and the Power of Choice
Choice: It’s a power-loaded word. My heart is heavy. It’s pounding. I’m grieving. And it started with a book. “It’s not their fault. They don’t know what they’re doing.” “But we do. So it’s our fault. And we need to do something.” –The Giver My daughter recently read The Giver…
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The Battle We Can’t See: Time to Suit Up
An invisible world exists. I could be referring to the creatures that live on your skin. Or the mites in your sheets. Or the waves of light and sound that swarm invisibly through your body each moment. But I’m talking about the spiritual world. Good and Evil. Angels and Demons.…
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Glow: Is there a Spiritual light we can’t see?
What if “This Little Light of Mine” were real? And shiny? Rattlesnakes see infrared light, and if a mouse is under a leaf, the snake can locate its prey. Bees detect ultraviolet marks on flowers that guide them directly to the pollen. As hard as it is to fathom, these…
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When Christian Leaders Fail
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been failed by a leader – and a Christian leader, in particular. Ok. Put your hands down. Yes, all of us have experienced this to some degree. It’s hard. It questions our faith. It causes doubt and suspicions to grow in other areas of…
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2016 is a whole new game. Play on!
Checkers. It was my life-game. Safe, familiar, and homey. I was good at it, too. I thought, Sweet! God has put me in a game that I’m good at! And the game was predictable. It had its rules, and I knew them. Sure, occasionally the board got bumped and spilled,…
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Take off your harness. You can’t climb that wall.
Anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.” — Jesus (John 10:1) I’m not expert in World Religions, but someone who straps bombs to their body to gain a better afterlife sure sounds like…