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No great changes have ever resulted from head shaking bobble heads murmuring "ain't it awful" and never moving beyond. Kingdom style change comes from people switching from a governance of self centeredness to one of servanthood. We need to stop kidding ourselves that we are the monarchs of the sea and sky! We are a…

Luigi Alois Gillarduzzi Hagar und Ismael in der Wüste 1851 They were homeless refugees. They were hungry and rejected. God allowed it to happen, but then, God intervened and embraced them. God heard the prayer of a little boy and the cry of his mother. He provided. God loves Hagar and Ishmael. No one is…

Psalm 61 and 62, Isaiah 51: 1-12, Galatians 4::12-20, Mark 8:1-10https://linktr.ee/tomsims For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. — Isaiah 51:3…

Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash It’s not always a problem to get a lot of boos from the crowd. Sometimes it’s a badge of honor because what you’ve said is truth, and it resonates, and it goes against the spirit of denial and falsehood and the prevailing lie that people have bought into in the…

The years go by so much faster than they used to. Days start with great expectations and we accomplish less than we set out to accomplish and sometimes more and usually more than we think and we step back and scratch our heads with wonder. We've come farther than we think and somewhere along the…

We see "Both Sides Now" once we've had the time and attention to pay attention and … when we really see, we know that there is much more to see than we know or can know. And by the way, once you've been in the cloud and see it for what it is, you can…

I Corinthians 13  If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have…

I responded to a question on a Q and A online forum and I was surprised at my own answer. Someone asked if we wanted to be remembered when we were gone and I answered what follows. I must say, I was somewhat influenced by conducting a graveside service in an old cemetery that past…

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