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Is There Something Breaking Through Into Your Life?
“What the gospel does is make the miracle routine and the routine a miracle .” Eugene Peterson More and more, the thing that seems most...
How To Order Your Days For a Life That Endures
Sometimes, the order of things matters. When making a PB&J, it helps to put on the peanut butter before the jelly. When making a new...
A Prayer for Grace and Guidance
Come ever-present God and be with me. You alone know and understand all that is before me. Come help me trust in you. Slow my pace to see...
Where Your Best Prayers Take You
You are on a journey today. A thought, worry, interaction, or experience can send you off in a good or bad way. You are always going...
The Mighty Ones
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” John Bunyan Imagine the darkness, the...
The Longest Journey
“The longest journey is the twelve inches from your head to your heart.” John Ortberg Have you ever thought about that? If Ortberg is...
The Broad Place and the Go-Go Practice
"I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott There...
Make a Careful Exploration of Who You Are
We played a new game this past week. It was a multi-dimensional strategy game - a mind-bender that required us to pay attention and think...
What Makes Things Good
“What makes life good is not a particular set of circumstances but how the heart interacts with them.” Tim Keller Like many families, we...
Waiting and Hoping for the Light
“Hope is joyous anticipation of good that is not yet here or is unseen.” Dallas Willard “The people walking In darkness have seen a great...
A Promise for Your Hopes and Fears
I was greeted by a man in a Santa hat when I went to pick up my car from the shop the other day. It was a damp, dreary, rainy day. His...
Looking Back to See Our Way Forward
“It was in the season of Christmas that I came out of my little garden…and began to walk backwards through history to the place from...
The Voice You Need
The sound of silence is growing at our house as our children are becoming young adults. One of the things I sometimes miss is the sound...
Gazing in the Right Direction
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” C.S. Lewis1 Surely one of the marks of greatness is the longevity of one’s influence. Take the...
Forgiveness - In Tune With God
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope Are you in tune? I went to a choir concert this past week. In order to be in tune...
Finding An Authority You Can Trust
“For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does. Ps 33:4 I was joking around with someone yesterday. It just so...
He Will Love You to the End
“Real love loves us, not just as we are, but so that we can become what we are meant to be…It’s a love that won’t let us go.” Mark...
Learning How To Pray
“When Jesus gave his disciples [the Lord’s] prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath. his own life, his own prayer…his own...
When Troubles Come
My guess is that right now, you or someone you care about is going through something difficult. You need healing. You need comfort in the...
A New Way to Live
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”...
Finding Life and Peace
“To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” Rom 8:6 “The most important thing about...
What If God Was As Near As Your Right Hand
I had the opportunity once to go and see and listen to one of my favorite authors. Afterward, he went to a gathering area along with the...
Where Are Your Feet
“The art of the awareness of God, the art of sensing His presence in our daily lives cannot be learned offhand.” Abraham Heschel...
Living the Question of Christmas
This Advent I have been inspired by the Carols of Christmas. Each week a new song seemed to capture my imagination. Before moving into...
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