Posts Tagged "friend"

Ok, God, I’m Listening

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Blog, Encouragement | 9 comments

Ok, God, I’m Listening

Prayer with a friend stopped short when I received a call from the school secretary saying, “Justin was in an accident during gym class.” Racing for the soccer ball in a one-on-one game against time, my eleven-year old collided heads with another boy. Arriving at the nurse’s office, my son lay flopped on her bench with an icepack to the back of his head, eyes glazed. The doctor said he...

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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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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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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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The Big Fail

Posted by on Nov 9, 2011 in Blog, Devotional | 0 comments

The Big Fail

“Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another of the disciples.  That other disciple was acquainted with the high priest, so he was allowed to enter the high priest’s courtyard with Jesus.  Peter had to stay outside the gate. Then the disciple who knew the high priest spoke to the woman watching at the gate, and she let Peter in.  The woman asked Peter, “You’re not one of that man’s...

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