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Prayers for the Undeserving

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Blog, Devotional, Poetry | 5 comments

Prayers for the Undeserving

“A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34 As I have loved you. You must love one another. Quite the request, Lord.  It was in your heart all along, wasn’t it?  “Love my people.  Do unto others.  Feed my lambs.” It’s a breeze to love you, Lord, so perfect and kind.  But people? Even the best pastors, leaders,...

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His Valentine

Posted by on Feb 13, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement | 11 comments

His Valentine

“I have loved you with an everlasting love…”  Jeremiah 31:3 Tripping through life, tossed and torn here and there, we manage to lose it, to leak it.  Where’d it go?  Where’s joy? Instead of bubbling out, it fizzles flat, leaving us without a wave or a pat.  We’re dry, needing a tune up in order to bloom up. Maybe we need to wake up, inhale the rush of salvation.  Christ’s...

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Put on your Dancing Shoes

Posted by on Feb 9, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement, Scripture | 4 comments

Put on your Dancing Shoes

The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand. Psalms 37:23,24 About that disappointment you’re feeling…  God’s working behind the scenes to make it a God-appointment.  That’s Sovereignty.  There are no missteps, only His steps; no detours, only God-tours. Rejoice in...

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God’s A Planner

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement, Scripture | 0 comments

God’s A Planner

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 Satan is our disaster-planner, but he’s not the writer of our future.  God is.  Best of all, God is into the details, right down to our cellular level. Consider the word disaster.  An “aster” is a star-shaped structure that forms...

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Who’s At The Wheel?

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Blog, Devotional | 0 comments

Who’s At The Wheel?

Be still, and know that I am God!  Psalm 46:10 Be still in this restless world?  Is it even possible?  Perhaps not.  Unless we let God do the stilling in us. Be still, and know that I am God! Maybe if he does the stilling while we do the knowing, we’ll get somewhere.  Somewhere serene on this sacred journey to stillness. Be still, and know that I am God! Why in the world is this taking...

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Christmas Screams

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Blog, Poetry | 0 comments

Christmas Screams

When the valleys seem deeper, longer than the heights, depths of our mountaintop times, He is here. If we could see Him we would break into shouts of joy. He is here. He is here with His itinerary that makes Satan’s schemes look like child’s play. Satan doesn’t want us to see him, doesn’t want us to sense him, doesn’t want us to “consider it pure joy when we suffer trials of all...

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