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On Time
I set urgent goals, make urgent plans, play urgent roles,Pray urgent prayers, seek urgent interventions for my urgent cares.God quietly, silently, patiently hears my cries, my fears, my sobbing tears.God speaks and cage-rattles as silently and patiently to my rage-… Continue reading
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A Prayerful Response to Betrayal
"…but I give myself to prayer." Whatever the mess, the tension, the stress, and the opposition, we had better be on that page. There are challenges we cannot face alone. There are perplexities we cannot unravel. There are doubts we… Continue reading
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Royal “Screw-Ups” Accepted in the Beloved
I wonder if anyone would actually join a church called, "The Fellowship of Screw-Ups." Or would they join a church called, "The Beloved Family?" What if they were all the same people – folks who have messed everything up badly… Continue reading
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The Verdict – No Condemnation
Verdicts are rendered Monday-Friday in courtrooms all over the world. Verdicts are rendered 24-7 in the hearts and lives of human beings. What goes into a verdict? What determines its pronouncement? In a time when we understand the unreliability of… Continue reading
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It Is Morning
It's morning.It's time.This is it.That for which you are longing.Embrace today.God is here.It's morning. Continue reading
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On Growing Old on Purpose
"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't." - Clarence S. Darrow I guess I'll have to wait… Continue reading
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Tick Tac Toe for Today
TODAY______ 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… Continue reading
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Comfort in Trouble
It is a nice verse with a comforting theme, but it is set in the context of struggle. The psalmist is in the fight of his life. His enemy is a former friend, turned against him, who is using every… Continue reading
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Even at Horeb
"Even at Horeb …" Even at the very Mountain of God, the place where the law was gloriously given, we figured out a way to provoke God. God was ready to destroy …. But God did not destroy. What happened?… Continue reading
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