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A Child’s Wonder
This weekend my wife and I had our niece and nephew stay with us. It’s hard to appreciate how much time kids take when you really want to invest in them. We were busy with the laundry and the cooking...
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Diluted
A friend and I were discussing last night the movie Wild Hogs. He told me he hasn’t seen it yet because he doesn’t like Martin Lawrence. I told him that he appears alone in scenes fairly infrequently,...
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A Community of the Spoken To
Over the course of the last couple of weeks, God has given me the opportunity to immerse myself in his Word for hours at a time. I discovered through it all that the Lord God was leading and speaking...
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Very Present Help
Something has been on my mind lately, but at the back of it, sticking me like a splinter in my brain. It wasn’t until I started praying this morning that I realized what it was. I had planned on...
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The Lover Known as God
Seeking God is such a curious thing. In a very real sense, I cannot seek God without His grace to find me first. Many of us are familiar with John’s refrain that we love Him only because He loved us...
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A Surprising Encounter
I’m big on journaling. It’s a discipline I discovered some years back that helps me process through what God is showing me, that helps me express desires or fears that may be buried beneath the...
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How Near is the Kingdom?
How much is God on our side? How much can we trust Him, I mean, to be our comforter and provider? I often think of it as our being on His side, not He on ours (He is, after all, God!), but when it...
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The Gift of Beauty
Fall has come to the Midwest. I mean Fall. The things we fondly think of when we dream of the hot, dry days of summer transitioning over to the cool, colorful, lively shorter days of autumn: holiday...
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Awaken My Soul
I’m ready, God, so ready, ready from head to toe. Ready to sing, ready to raise a God-song: “Wake up, soul! Wake, lute! Wake up, you sleepyhead sun!” -Psalm 108:1-2, The Message “I will awaken the...
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The Soul’s Worth
I’m reading through a book by Gerald May called The Dark Night of the Soul. Gerald May was a psychiatrist who, in his own words, became weary of the medical profession’s way of handling the soul of...
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