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Captured or Captivated?
Do you ever awaken with a sense of heaviness as you face the day? Various circumstances coincided for me recently and this became my experience. As I was asking God for wisdom, I viewed an excellent video discussion with Dr. Dallas Willard. Dr. Willard described how before rising from bed he mentally reviews “The Lords Prayer” or the 23rd Psalm, slowly and prayerfully.
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Leading a double life?
This past week we began a study of John’s Gospel. Although I am no Greek scholar, with the helpful study tool now available on bible.org I confirmed that John uses two distinct Greek words for our English word, life.
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Cleaning up!
It’s that time again. Monday, trash day. This week it fell my job to roll our large trash bin to the curb anticipating an early morning visit from the rumbling truck with it’s robotic arms ready to clasp my trash to it’s bosom.
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Flaming Destruction
The wildfires sweeping across Colorado Springs reached within a forth of a mile of the beautiful log home of friends. The evacuation order found them in Denver so they became homeless with only the clothes on their backs.
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It’s worth it!
I’m looking forward to a long drive today with three old friends. We ministered and travelled together for several years and haven’t seen each other for quite a while. Our catching up will be full of laughter, emotion, and likely even some tears.
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Never Forget
This week we will visit a veteran’s cemetery to lay to rest amidst the flags a dear friend and mentor who served in WWII. This Memorial Day we honor others who have preceded him.
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Walking humbly?
Several summers ago I found myself meditating on the simple verse Micah 6:8, “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? KJV.“ As I sought to understand each admonition I settled on the word humbly, asking the Lord what does it look like to walk in a humble manner.
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God Calls it Work
There’s a lot of confusion about what constitutes work in today’s society, especially for women. The most recent political furor centers around a comment implying that a woman who chose to stay home to raise five sons “never worked a day in her life.”
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Nevermind the Dinner Guests!
Enjoy guest blogger Sara Alexander. Thanks Sara. Someone dear to me once said, “I’ve spent a lifetime under the wheels of the people-pleasing bus.” What an apt, poetic image. Attempting to be perpetually approved of usually crushes something intended by God, doesn’t it? When we aim to please others we stumble in our individualized races, reflecting a banged-up image of God to a world in desperate need of a good glimpse of him.
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Connecting or confronting?
If challenged about your lifestyle, why you choose to go to bible study, how you live your life, spend your time the way that you do, how might you answer? Could you make a connection that might “pave the way” for an honest dialog leading to sharing the gospel of forgiveness and reconciliation?