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I wish for you all a day filled with extraordinary, audacious, and joyful success. May it be extraordinary because we were never called to be merely ordinary. We were called, fashioned,ad equipped to do the one job no one else in the world can do: be ourselves under God in a world that needs the…

“… Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” – John 1:29 It is not enough to have a theoretical understanding of God’s redemption through Jesus and how He came to fulfill the Old Testament system of sacrifices as the Paschal Lamb – as important as that information may be.…

Psalm 103:13, Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. The love of God is a tender love. It is a father’s love. It is a patient love, understanding, compassionate, forgiving, and gracious. The love of God for His children moves Him to desire what is best for…

“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.” – Psalm 103:15 For our season, whatever it may be, we flourish. Then comes the wind and we are gone. Soon, the very memory of our lives fades from the consciousness of our successors and we are thought…

"Bless the Lord, O my soul … and all that is within me …” Psalms 103:1  Audacity and capacity are issues that are triggered by this prayer as it is suggested to us.  It is audacious to think that we could somehow bless God. Yet, He has given us the capacity to be a blessing…

T – A TIC on the tic-toc scale, a TIPPING point in TIME, TO-BE written. O – OPPORTUNITIES abound, obstacles obscure, but do not overwhelm. D – DOING is immediate. I cannot just being materializes into doing. I must DO. A – ALL we have in time is today to ACTIVATE our dreams. Y –…

To be honest, there are parts of the Bible I sometimes wish would go away. But, to be honest, those are the honest parts — where someone lets his or her humanity hang out and be viewed and scrutinized. In the midst of the beautiful, majestic, and celebratory Psalm 139, are these angry and somewhat…

Whatever it takes, let us enter rest. I am philosophically, and paradoxically amused by the concept of striving to enter rest and still, I get it. I get it on the day before every day off or vacation. I get it every day when I try to get my ducks in a row so that…

  Oh God, who sees me, knows me, and loves me while seeing through my pretensions. There is nothing I can tell you about myself that you do not already know. I am laid bare by your penetrating gaze and your Word divides by thoughts and attitudes, sorting them out in ways I cannot even…

I shall write this book, and have begun: Spiritual Disciplines for Highly Distracted Souls. I shall finish if I can concentrate enough to do so . Some of you know exactly what I mean. And you are the folks who are my kin in this particular skin. We struggle to focus, but we must focus…