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  • Spiritual Frustration

    Did you ever notice this frustrating reality? You clean up, fix up, or straighten up and it goes well for a while and then … you relapse into a worse state than before. There is a futility in constantly cleaning… Continue reading

  • One Needed Thing

    It may seem that what startles you out of bed at the last minute tomorrow morning is the most important thing in the universe. It will not come close to the value of a relaxed and unhurried time at the… Continue reading

  • Who Is My Neighbor?

    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… Continue reading

  • Blessed Are the Eyes that See

      unsplash-logoNonsap Visuals   Luke 10:23-24   And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see… Continue reading

  • Isness

    unsplash-logoAustin Chan Days pass … weeks, months, years… decades slip away,Accelerating,Jubilating,Re-creating,Innovating life,Invention of our minds, Intention of our hearts,… or something else …. confiding ….Residing in our soul ….Guiding to some goal?Is there a whole in the hole …A purposeful… Continue reading

  • Mere Men – The Nations Must Know

    We have a God whose ways are not our ways and thoughts not our thoughts. He reverses the power of conventional wisdom and defies the accepted truisms of society to make His own order. He simply does not forget the… Continue reading

  • Getting Unstuck

    These are universal principles. They work because they are based upon truth that is enduring and preeminent. Truth is truth in anyone’s hands. When activated it takes on a life of its own. Continue reading

  • We Rise Up and Stand Firm – Notes on Psalm 20

    In Distress   Photo by Zach Rowlandson on Unsplash Psalm 20:1 – May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. In the spirit of blessing and benediction, we come to pray… Continue reading

  • The Grand Question – Notes on Psalm 17

    Psalm 17:1 – Hear, O Lord, my righteous plea; listen to my cry.  Give ear to my prayer-it does not rise from deceitful lips. One might think that the psalmist had stepped out of his time and looked upon ours… Continue reading

  • To a People Yet Unborn – Notes on Psalm 22

    Psalm 22:1 – My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? We have the retrospective luxury of knowing the messianic significance of this… Continue reading