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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 ...

Prepared for all this broken world throws at us

I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the w...

When the Groom Prepares His Bride

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband (Rev ...

Another Place—Planned, Promised, and Prepared

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am (Jn 14:3). We have w...

The Prepared Way

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and...

A Name that Saves

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. All this took plac...

The Babe Prepared and Born to Man

You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High (L...

Preparing Room

The widow of Zarephath had one at the ready for Elijah’s visits (1 Kg 17:9). A couple in Shunem made one for Elisha whenever he came pass...

Preparing a Way in This Wilderness

Are you ready to turn the bend in our Prepared path? As our advent-days approach Christmas, and we gradually wind our way through the sto...

Crowned in Glory

But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom” (H...

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...

A God-Prepared Covering

In these opening advent days, we observed our cultural holiday preparations. Now we’ll turn to the biblical narrative to consider what Go...

Lightly

The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light (Rm 13:12). He ...

What's Needed in Troubled Times

August is slowly limping along, isn’t it? And the week ahead is crammed full of troubles of its own. Corona is not going away. Fires rage...

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 ti...

Gathered in Instruction

We are always learning, aren't we? I often told my kids that they should learn something new every day. I still tell them, even now as ad...

Who’s the real enemy here?

His final Passover came much too quickly. It was over even more quickly. Not being one to delay, He knew the time had come. All had been ...

Before the Tables Turned

Before the Light flooded my soul, before the Truth captured my heart, before I took the Hand extended to pull me from the pit, the only d...

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