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  • “In My Name …” How We Use the Name of Jesus

    It is to be aligned with Him. Whenever we come into that sort of alignment with the heart, desires, and will of God, and to the extent that we do, our prayers are answered. It is not magic. It is not a formula. It is a process of coming into that tuning. There is much…

  • Is There No Balm in Gilead?

    Weep until you are weary and cry out to God who weeps along with you.For in weeping we discover the love and in love we have our only hope of joy and the joy of hope. In the valley of weeping is the place where the very, very, very good gospel of very, very, very…

  • Drawn Toward Center

    By Newton Henry Black – Newton Henry Black, Harvey N. Davis (1913) Practical Physics, The MacMillan Co., USA, p. 242, fig. 200, Public Domain, Link   The great themes of our days startle us into wakefulness. We gravitate toward them as if there is a magnet drawing the little specks of scattered metal dust into…

  • Grace to You

    By Tahc – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link   Grace to you this day. Free flowing, fresh, thirst quenching, life altering, mind bending, countenance lifting, laughter evoking, heart wrenching, heart mending, sweet, precious grace to you. Grace to you that is greater than sin, disappointment, and fear. Grace to you that is so flavored…

  • " I will ponder the way that is blameless.Oh when will you come to me?I will walk with integrity of heartwithin my house;I will not set before my eyesanything that is worthless.I hate the work of those who fall away;it shall not cling to me." (Psalm 101:2-3 ESV) I could, can, and do echo this…

  • But I Give Myself to Prayer

    By Sandro Botticelli – The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, Link   "Be not silent, O God of my praise!For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,speaking against me with lying tongues.They encircle me with words of hate,and attack me without cause.In…

  • When You Are Unfairly Maligned

      Beloved, you do not ultimately answer to me for who you are. I am not your judge and if I try to be, I stand the chance of being wrong. I cannot even judge my judges. I cannot know your motives. I cannot know theirs. We have all been victims of unfair judgment and…

  • Peace and Justice

    Peace and Justice are not two sides of the same coin. They are both on the same side of the same coin.

  • It Is Saturday (almost) and We Are Not Retired Yet

      We are here today, standing on a rolling ball, trying to maintain our balance yet balanced by an unseen hand. We are suspended between the ground beneath and the sky above and somehow unimpressed. We are ever bumping into one another and looking the other way with muttered apologies for living. We see through…

  • On Suffering, Relatability, Infallibility, and Strategic Living

    That being said, here are some random observations from an imperfect interpreter of scripture and life: My take-away lesson from Jeremiah is that some suffering is necessary. Jesus taught this too and embodied it and, when encouraged to avoid the suffering, He put the "plan" ahead of His own interests and well-being. But … nevertheless…