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  • The Power of a Prior Commitment

    Photo by Isaac Jenks on Unsplash First, Commit; then Learn to Follow  “Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for…

  • How to Cheat the Genie Code – One Wish – One Thing

  • Light that Blinds and Hardens Us or Enlightens Us As I was reading this again after reading it all my life,  a subtlety landed in my brain and stirred a thought. The exact same light that enlightens our thinking can blind our eyes to truth, depending upon the angle at which we stare and the…

  • The Creation (and More) by James Weldon Johnson

    The classic poem, “The Creation” written by James Weldon Johnson and Read by the classic actor,, James Earl Jones. Also included are Fred Waring’s God’s Trombones, and Johnson himself reading.

  • Saving Faith that Launches Our New Life – Acts 16 verse 31

  • We Are All Community Projects We really, truly, absolutely need each other. We are already a community, but we also need to build authentic communities where people related to each other, collaborate together, negotiate our differences productively, and live redemptively in reconciled relationships. This is a task of the church; it is a task for…

  • Go, Think about It.

    I saw a church board that declared that Satan is the author of confusion. I assume that comes from 1 Corinthians 14:33 "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." However, the premise that confusion is always the role of the adversary/accuser is as faulty…

  • Find a Mission that Will Benefit the World

  • Questions Are Answers – Prayers of Desperation from Psalms 70 and 71

  • Find a mission to benefit the world.