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  • If This Is Not the Place

    When I think about church, I think about the sentiments in this song. And true enough, for the last several plus years, thinking and rethinking church has been on my agenda. It is not to recreate as much as to rediscover whatwas and what was intended. When church and place intersect, I am singing these…

  • God Shows Up

    Blessed is the King who comes in the Name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest (Luke 19:38) Today, we join the eternal chorus of welcome as the Lord Jesus Christ enters into our consciousness as the King who comes in the Name of the Lord. He is the Prince of…

  • Remember Susan and Remember Paul

    Do you remember Susan? Remember her if you are discouraged today. We are more than we can even imagine. This dear woman’s confidence in the person God had given her to be just blessed me down to my socks – as did her inspiring performance. Susan Boyle is my hero! She has lived this song…

  • How God Thinks about Us

    “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you …” – Jeremiah 29:11 First, it is an awesome thing to consider that God would even have a thought toward any one of us. Then we marvel to know that his thoughts are deep and loving and of peace and a future purpose to give…

  • Changing Our Outlook on Defeat

    Defeat Kahlil Gibran  1883 – 1931 Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon.   Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness; You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs, And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.   Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance, Through…

  • We Must Change Our Attitude Toward Defeat

  • The Big Book

      On this day in 1939 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.     “Those events that once made me feel ashamed and disgraced now allow me to share with others how to become a useful member of the human race.” ———— “On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.…

  • Roses and Thorns

    “Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” – Isaiah 55:13 There is an old joke about being a thorn among roses…

  • The Dew of Hermon

    Psalm 133:3 – As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. I have seen Mount Hermon and it is impressive. I could not gaze upon it without a sense of wonder and an appreciation for God’s…