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  .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…

Prayer is a deep spiritual mystery. Mutual communication with God is going on far beneath the surface of our lives. Not only do we often not know what to pray, we often know not what we are praying. This is not said that we might disengage our minds, but that, with engagement, we might also…

I could, can, and do echo this prayer of commitment today: 1. Regulate my thoughts. Rejecting that which is unworthy, focusing on the real longing of my heart for God to show up in my life in a fresh way. 2. Walking in my own house with integrity – in the place of my most…

I set urgent goals, make urgent plans, play urgent roles,Pray urgent prayers, seek urgent interventions for my urgent cares.God quietly, silently, patiently hears my cries, my fears, my sobbing tears.God speaks and cage-rattles as silently and patiently to my rage- battles.And urgency gives way to intentionality ….And rush to order …And I step into a…

"…but I give myself to prayer." Whatever the mess, the tension, the stress, and the opposition, we had better be on that page. There are challenges we cannot face alone. There are perplexities we cannot unravel. There are doubts we cannot calm. There are attacks we cannot fend off. We must give ourselves to prayer.…

I wonder if anyone would actually join a church called, "The Fellowship of Screw-Ups." Or would they join a church called, "The Beloved Family?" What if they were all the same people – folks who have messed everything up badly and yet, who had discovered how precious they really were to their Papa? And what…

Verdicts are rendered Monday-Friday in courtrooms all over the world. Verdicts are rendered 24-7 in the hearts and lives of human beings. What goes into a verdict? What determines its pronouncement? In a time when we understand the unreliability of eye-witness accounts and the emotional manipulation of oral testimony as well as the flaws of…

    It's morning.It's time.This is it.That for which you are longing.Embrace today.God is here.It's morning.  

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't." - Clarence S. Darrow  I guess I'll have to wait a few more years to find out, but I do not believe that is true…