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When Being Stuck Doesn’t Seem So Temporary
Everybody I know feels stuck. Life seems to be on hold. We can’t move forward. And we can’t go back. We tarry here in the in-between....
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An Invitation That’s Really Real
Living alone has its ups and its downs. And the downs fell hard last week. With the whole sheltering-in-place in isolation, plus being...
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Marks of Humanity
My boss is a marked man. But he’s not the only one. He’s sporting a mark across his nose . . . from wearing a mask. It’s a sign of our...
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What if we dropped the keys?
I’ve been doing a lot more walking these days. I think that’s the case for many of us. It’s one of the few places we can go. I headed out...
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Endurance: It Is in Us
There was once a musical called Stop the World I Want To Get Off. I’ve never watched it. But I’ve got to be honest with you, folks. That...
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Surrounded in Isolation
In these days of cancellations and unfamiliar isolation, we find it necessary to look for ways to battle the real enemies of...
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Four L’s for the day . . . any day – but especially today
To settle our minds and our hearts is to settle them on the One Who Is Peace. But that often requires a determined effort until the habit...
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Recognizing real bears – and learning to not feed them
It had long been his dream to have a pet bear. When he came into his own, he figured his chance had come at last. He trained that cub...
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A Sure Thing
“I am watching, and I will certainly carry out all my plans.” (Jer 1:12b NLT) Don’t you just love that verse?! I sure do. It speaks two...
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How What is to Come is a Blessing Now
Job, a suffering servant of God, in the depths of anguish of flesh, mind and spirit, proclaimed: “And after my skin has been destroyed,...
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Underestimating God
Realization pierced the thick fog—permitting light to stream and flood. This realization came about by asking myself one simple question,...
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Word Power for Use
"LORD, there is no one like You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name...
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A Staff in God’s Hands
Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of...
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A Has Been That Still Is
What’s brewing around you today, friend? Do you find yourself in the middle of a storm—feeling like there’s no one there to drop anchor?...
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Where Disappointment Sends You
It was the last e-mail she ever expected to get. You know–you’ve likely gotten one yourself. That gut-wrenching, heart-breaking,...
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Car parts and faith and what one has to do with the other
Headlights—they come in varying degrees of brightness and hues these days. Whether they’re coming at you dead-on or glaring from the...
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A Name Packed with Power . . . for Life
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,...
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Because you should start a new year with light
Though ancient, these words from the prophet Isaiah sound all too familiar to our modern experience: So justice is far from us, and...
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When another decade has come . . . and gone
You’ve probably seen them. Those side-by-side photos paired on social media to signify the open and close of the decade known as the...
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When it seems there’s nothing you can do
My momma often said, “There are no easy answers.” Sometimes, when you get bad news, there’s no easy or ready-made solution. Some problems...
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