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A Setting For Your Story
Sadly, in recent years my mom has developed severe short-term memory loss. It’s almost as if she is constantly grasping for an understanding of her setting.
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Cleaning House
We love for someone else to clean up our mess… to a point. But we might not want someone digging too deep into “our stuff.”
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On Runaway Horses and Scurrying Rats
I remember one night at the jail when Sue was teaching on self-control, she talked about how we would prefer to control other people. She said that if we had a remote control that worked on people, there are plenty of folks we would choose to mute, or we would make them go away simply…
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Easy Evangelism
Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?John 4:29 As many of you know, my jail ministry mentor and partner, Mrs. Sue, went to be with the Lord last October. The jail doesn’t allow people in for ministry until they have attended a training session,…
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Fear Of Fire
When I was a girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, the house behind ours caught fire in the middle of the night. Our whole family got out of bed and watched it from our sliding glass door. We knew the neighbors were safe, but I still cried because I was afraid the fire would…
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Just God and Me
It’s very natural that we don’t want to be alone. At the creation, the one thing God said was not good was “for the man to be alone,” (Genesis 2:18). So he made Eve. Later He made the church. We’re not meant to do life alone, especially the Christian life. But, there are some things…
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Distortion
Some things should never be twisted out of shape. Like Humpty Dumpty, some things cannot be put together again once the original shape is distorted.
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Pentecost Harvest
Did you know that Pentecost was a harvest celebration? Pentecost is the Greek word (meaning fiftieth day) used in the New Testament to refer to the Jewish Feast of Harvest, which is a celebration of the early wheat harvest every spring. (Exodus 23:16, 34:22).
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Parenting Basics: Requiring First-Time Obedience
If you’ve ever wondered why almost all parenting guides from pamphlets to tomes list “Consistency” as one of the keys to parenting, this is it. Because if I want my children to obey me quickly when it matters, I must require that they obey me when it, seemingly, doesn’t matter.
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