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Having and Applying Wisdom
Having wisdom and sharing wisdom is sometimes different from having to apply it to your own life. We may have helped others but, in our own time of crisis, discover that our words to them are inadequate to our own… Continue reading
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Hometown Jesus
Will our home-town churches will be willing to embrace Him and get in His program or if He will have to look and work elsewhere. Continue reading
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The Moral Fool
The psalmist is talking about moral fools, people of power who plunder the poor and helpless as if there were no God of justice and truth to whom they must give account. The proof of reverence for God is, in… Continue reading
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Reporting for Duty
I also am flawed, very flawed, very vulnerable, imperfect, and needy. I limp to your altar. I am unkempt, unshaven, a bit battered, and joyfully expectant. Clean me up, Lord and send me out. Grace – I drink it and… Continue reading
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Who Cares?
If it seems that no one cares, you might be right. Sometimes it is relatively true. No one cares or shows care to the extent that we perceive we need. We look around and all are about their own concerns.… Continue reading
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Apalled
To be appalled is to turn ashen gray. It comes upon us suddenly in response to something so shocking that it effects the supply of blood to our brains. A pall is a a cloak that often covers a… Continue reading
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Have You Considered My Servant, Job?
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? – Job 1:8 This was a… Continue reading
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Sometimes You’ve Gotta Run
"Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself." – John 6:15, NIV You're no Jesus, but if you follow Him, He will work through you at times in such… Continue reading
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We too often despise the little we have available, but time and experience have often taught us that multiplication and leverage have been built into the fabric of God's universe by God Himself and that when Jesus and His words… Continue reading
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How Much for a Some of that Power?
We want the power that comes from having God on our side. If that is not readily available, we will find a God that will be or we will create one. We are predisposed through our old nature to accumulate… Continue reading