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  • Four Steps to Thought Change

    Evaluate, excavate, eradicate, emancipate your thinking.

  • Spiritual Depression

    There is a sort of spiritual depression that can either rise to or complicate emotional, mental, and physical depression. It is, in Greek, “barew,” a verb meaning “to weigh down or depress.” Depression has spiritual, emotional, cognitive, physical, and biochemical dimensions. One can lead to the other. In the spiritual realm, there are spiritual remedies…

  • Prove me; try me, test me.

    This is is a rather courageous prayer for any to make. He makes it from the dual standing of God's faithful love and his own integrity. The greater appeal is to God's character and all he has in his own is his earnest desire to align with that. To ask to be refined and purified…

  • The Visitation

    " And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." – Luke 3:6 1. It is VISIBLE salvation.2. It is a VAST salvation – not intended for a few, but for many.3. It is a VICTORIOUS salvation. So celebrate! We have been VISITED! "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and…

  • Magnificat

    Photo by Alex Gindin on Unsplash “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord …” – Luke 1:46 The Magnificat remains one of the most glorious expressions of praise in all of musical literature.     Perhaps, someday, in Heaven, God will allow us to hear a replay of the day Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth or…

  • It is, in Pardoning …

    "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned." How can I, God of mercy,How can I humble myselfTo seek Thy forgivenessIf I am haughty enough to demand retributionFrom my neighbor?How can I seek pardon,Guilty as I am,If I withhold it from one who has offended me?Is there not one entry way to my soul forThat…

  • Your Pain and Your Passion

    Show me your pain and I will show you your passion.It is the same and it is transforming, first, by transforming itself …into joy!Without the pain,there is no passion,Without the passion,there is no joy.Without the joy …Without the JOY!?!?You must be kidding me!Without the joy, I'll go back to bed.But with joy, I'm going out…

  • It Is, In Giving …

    "For it is in giving that we receive …" Yes, it is. Only with an open had can I do either …And the same hand that gives, receives.Lord, guide my intentions to give today.At the moment, my hand is empty,But I hold it out so that You might place in it …What my neighbor needs…

  • Beyond Alarm, We Call

    Beyond alarm, beyond our pain, beyond all that is immediate in our lives is gratitude and submission. God has given us so much; all of Himself. We wonder what on earth we could do to show ourselves grateful. First, he says, we take the gift. We take the cup of salvation. We call on the…

  • A Very Risky Prayer Prayed with Confidence

    Is David prideful, deluded, or something else in making these claims? He, after all, has not always made the best choices. It must be something else – the same something else available to us: a heart known by God, bathed in mercy, covered by grace, seen through the eyes of love, and living in a…