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Count Your Blessings
Oftentimes it is the hardships that we remember— those tragic moments that really change the course of our lives. That’s understandable. But if we practice daily gratitude for all the little non-life-changing things, it sends us in a certain direction that can be life-changing.
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Living In The Moment: Past, Present, And Future
We don’t want to miss out on present blessings due to worry about the past or the future. It’s important to be present in the present. But Hebrews chapters 11-13 show us that the past and the future are important as well.
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A Tribute To My Mentor And Friend
I had some bad news early one morning recently. If you’ve ever lost a good friend suddenly, you know the pain. Carolyn Sue Claxton was not only my mentor in the jail ministry, she was my good friend. She treated me like an equal, a partner. And partners we were.
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Names You Can’t Say
A son honors his father,And a servant his master.If then I am the Father,Where is My honor?And if I am a Master,Where is My reverence?Says the LORD of hostsTo you priests who despise My name.Malachi 1:6 Have you ever noticed in a lot of stories there’s a motif of a bad guy whose name you…
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Escape Routes
Escape routes are important when there’s danger. The problem is we’re always trying to escape the wrong things. We want to escape responsibility and suffering, death and judgment, but that is not possible. We ought to be concerned with escaping the devil’s snare (2 Timothy 2:26), for that is God’s concern. It is not possible…
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Changing Identity
Sometimes our identity comes to be based on mistakes we’ve made in the past. We label others and they label us, and those labels “stick” in our minds. Is there anything about the way you identify yourself, or the way you feel others identify you, that you wish you could change?
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For Those Who Are Contemplating Divorce
So often what leads us to thoughts of divorce is not adultery but simply a cycle of conflict that we don’t know how to break. And so often what we come to hate about our spouse is just another form of the thing we loved in the first place.
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The Comparison Trap
In the book of Revelation the phrase “small and great” is used five times, always referring to people being grouped together and treated the same, whether in suffering or in reward. It seems that neither Satan nor God compares the way we do.
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My Twins and the Twin Towers
This twin tragedy played out before our eyes while, at the same time, our own twins were being put on respirators, fed through tubes, and given the best care possible so that life could prevail over death.
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