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Darkness vs. Light My daughter and I were traveling down a road near a friend’s house recently and were looking at the sky around us. On one side of us, the sky was getting darker and darker. The clouds were starting to look rather ominous. The other side was still bright and beautiful. Light filled […]
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I was reading something written by a pastor recently and he pointed to a verse in Jeremiah that isn’t often studied. Jeremiah was praying to the Lord and asking a few “why” questions. Jeremiah 12:5 is the first part of God’s response to Him. “If you have run with the footmen and they have tired
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I have a habit of copying Scriptures that I am studying, trying to memorize, or simply just need to remember. I usually have them written on index cards or small pieces of paper scattered around my home. Sometimes I take Scriptures and personalize them and either use them as a prayer or as a reminder
Trust the Pilot I was listening to a pastor recently and he told a story that another pastor has shared. The pastor had talked about a flight he had taken during which they had experienced a lot of turbulence when they encountered a storm. He talked about how rough it had been and admitted that
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Do you ever read something that makes you have to stop and think about it for a minute or two? (Or even longer!) I read something recently that did this to me, and I confess, it also convicted me. It was talking about worry and it said that the root of the word worry is
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Defend and Resist (James 4:7; Eph. 6:10-14; Isaiah 7:9) When I was much younger than I am now, there was a country song that included the words “you’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything”. I thought of those words today as I sat down to look at the next definition for
My daughter and I were cooking together recently, something we do quite often. We were making one of those things with multiple ingredients that doesn’t look very appetizing until you reach a certain point in the cooking process. I reminded her not to let the way things looked at the moment make her not want
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My daughter and I were traveling down a road near our home recently and were talking about how different everything looked because of the tornado that hit our town just over a year ago. While we were talking, we passed a tree that caught my attention and I stopped to take a photo of it.
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My friend, are you tired? I don’t mean the “I need a nap” tired; I mean the bone-weary, deep in your soul exhausted, kind of tired. I am talking about feeling just worn-out from the cares of life. I don’t know about you, but this seems to describe me lately. Everything feels harder than usual,
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As a child, I loved helping my grandmother bake her homemade cakes, eagerly hurrying to the kitchen to assist anytime I knew she would be making one. She made the most delicious homemade coconut, pineapple, and banana cakes. I remember watching with anticipation as she gathered the ingredients she would need. Depending on which cake
