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Your value is not diminished by your failures. Nor is it enhanced by your lack of failures.

There are “God-Made” Holy Days and “man-made” special days and God made every day for celebration of life and commemoration of His presence. John saw a vision of a day when our experience of God’s blessings would be consistent, day after day, month after month. May, June, and January are all the same in God’s…

The passionate devotion of one man or woman can light a fire that cannot be extinguished by discouragement or hardship. One person set afire by the Holy Spirit can inflame an entire community for Christ.

It is hard to be humble against the backdrop of thunderous applause, but that is our calling, to always be pushing people out in front of us and lifting them higher than ourselves.

No investment is more powerful than time. Invest in things that matter.

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it. Find the beauty around you. Step one – Open your eyes. Step two – Open your heart. Step three – Open your arms to embrace it. Step four – Open your mouth and sing. Celebrate!

Go; live like an outcast among outcasts if you must, but practice love as you go. Love is not revealed in the words we speak or the sentiments we feel, but in the actions we take in being neighbors to our neighbors. Go forth and live it.

Romans 12:9 – Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. There is much in the world that disguises itself as love. Out of the noisy menagerie of voices declaring what true love is, there comes a call to sincere, undiluted, unpolluted love. The clarion cry is…

It is really hard to move anything with the brakes on.

And should you come home wounded in body or soul, may we heal you and restore you.