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3000 Years of Not Being Able to Turn Your Mind Off
Do you ever lie awake at night, unable to shut your mind off? Here are two poems about that exact experience. One from King David around 1000 BC, one written just last week. Three thousand years apart, and the human heart remains the same. Psalm 4:4 reflect in your heart on your bed and be…
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Why Bother to Pray?
I realize God tells us to pray, but really, is that the only reason, “Because He said so?” This last week a friend (Ira) and I drove from Albuquerque to Phoenix to visit and pray with Stephen and his wife Kimberly. They are a young couple from church, and Stephen has stage four colon cancer.…
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Moses and the Promise: Lessons from a Bizarre Bible Story
The Bible is full of bizarre stories; this may be a new one for you. When the Israelites left Egypt, Moses was 80. By the time they were about to enter the Promised Land, he was 120. He had led these people through arguing with Pharaoh, the red sea, grumbling Israelites, the ten commandments, and…
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Wendy’s Journey: A Testament of Faith and Healing
Well, I’m a day late getting the verse out this week — we were in Houston over the weekend for a memorial service for Wendy, my wife’s sister. Wendy had spent most of her life far from God. Here’s the embarrassing truth: we had been praying for her for years, yet when she finally turned…
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Would You Like to Live Off the Grid? Do You Like Kids? HAVE I GOT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU!
Imagine this for a minute… Imagine having no city water or sewer, but you do have an electric-powered well and a septic tank. You can’t drink the water because it is dangerously polluted, so you use it for bathing and order your drinking water delivered. You have no dependable city power, but you do have…
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