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What to Remember and What Not to Forget—Lessons from Egypt, Part I

Therefore, say to the Israelites: “I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from bei...

Remembering What’s Greater

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about...

The Great Flood Remembered

I find that practicing what I’m calling a spiritual discipline of remembrance-through-scripture actively lives out Paul’s admonition to n...

An Easter to Remember (And Living Beyond a Pandemic When You’re Living in a Pandemic)

March 2020—early in the shutdown, much was unknown and uncertain. Here in Georgia at the time, many people thought the shutdown would las...

Watching is to be Prepared

What a season of reflection it has been! Thank you for joining me. It’s been a season infused with the Word—made richer for looking back ...

Be Prepared with a Reply

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvat...

Simeon, the servant who saw what God prepared

Have you ever longed . . . and hoped . . . and waited to see something? Do you also remember that sweet, sweeping sensation when you fina...

What’s to Fear

The virgin's name was Mary. And [Gabriel] came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly tro...

The Preparing of a People

You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now if you obey Me fully ...

Where the Lord Provides

We are walking our way through God’s Grand Story, recalling those things He has prepared. And we’re still in Genesis. But such blessings ...

Being Prepared by Promise’s Divine

There is a confidence that comes from knowing God is for you. Really and truly FOR you. That confidence helps you feel prepared for anyth...

How Not To Waste A Bad Thing

I hear their voices still ringing in my ears: “Don’t waste it.” That it can represent anything good; like, food, money, health . . . time...

Learning to Walk

I remember what it was like trying to teach my children how to walk. I’d ease them up onto wobbly legs—gently holding and guiding them al...

When things set to spinning and all you want to do is jump

I learned to drive in Michigan—which means I learned how to drive in the snow. I also learned what it means to lose control of the car on...

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. Wai...

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...

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 disappointme...

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, y...

An Untossable Faith

I hadn’t been to the beach in years. Until, at long last, we took our first college tour. We were so close—we just had to make the detour...

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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