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  • Can America Be Made Great? Dr. King Challenged Us to Make America What It Ought to Be

    Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash I am not sure I ever have a thought completed until I write about it. I keep thinking and writing about Martin Luther King I am not finished. If you want to make America great, make America what it ought to be. This is such an encouraging and challenging message to keep…

  • The Party Where Everyone Gets a Present

    Imagine a wedding where the guests get gifts as well as the bride and groom. Whenever God throws a party, everyone present gets presents.

  • A Bouquete of Roget to You

    Born this day in 1779, Peter Mark Roget, was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words. I have been helped, assisted, aided, supported, reinforced, encouraged, facilitated bac ked,…

  • Heart’s Desire

    When your heart belongs to God and is, essentially set on the purposes of God, a new shaping begins to take place. None of this is perfected in time and space, but, to the extent that it is dominant reality of our lives, it does effect our desires. Our desires exist at multilevel layers. They…

  • Something in us longs for a sense of conclusion as long as that conclusion is culmination of purpose. Sainthood presupposes purpose and closure in accordance with purpose. Let us live with the peace that in the last chapter of our lives, God has determined to bring precious meaning and to fulfill His purposes in us.…

  • Short Blog on Healing

    "Heal the sick." We were told what to do, not how to do it. All we got was this: "Freely you have received; freely give." The big hint, then is, that we have received something that, when we give it away, brings healing, resurrection, liberation, and cleansing to broken people in a broken world. The…

  • Dead and Alive

    "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." – Ephesians 2:7 "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." So observed either Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston, Jr.in this…

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  • True Self from Wikiversity

    Unmasking the True Self Explore the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. “Who am I?” is the question that uniquely defines us as individuals and as humans. The stories we tell ourselves about who we are determine our personal identity. However, the narrative we use to define ourselves may be partly based on false beliefs about who…

  • He gazes into the eyes of the disenfranchised

    Unlike most of us, God never turns His head to avoid looking at the unpleasantness of the poor, the ugliness of the broken, or the raw pain of the oppressed. He gazes into the eyes of the disenfranchised and hears the cry that they utter. Perhaps our greatest opportunity to reflect God's presence to the…