Everything that can distract us or defeat us or hold us back, must be shaken of!

Shake Off The Snake

  He was the New Testament’s official ‘globetrotter’. His three missionary journeys and final trip to Rome took the last 36 years of his life, covered over 9000 miles walking or sailing and the cost (in today’s currency) for his in-transit travel expenses would be roughly $300,000.  That doesn’t include Paul’s expenses once he arrived […]

You have a warrior in you! Get your armor on and let God teach you how to fight on your knees!

We Don’t Sing “Onward Christian Soldiers” Anymore

“A time for war; A time for peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:8 TLB   There was a time in the past when God’s people had a stomach for spiritual battles! We’d raise our voices and sing: “Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war; with the cross of Jesus, going on before.” (Sabine Baring-Gould) There was militancy in […]

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Can I Sense The Presence Of God?

  “… in your presence there is fullness of joy:”  Psalm 16:11 ESV Imagine you’re halfway through your shift at Cosmos Burgers. There hasn’t been much to distinguish this workday from any others this week. But a burble starts to permeate the melancholy of this day when word has it the Presidential motorcade is pulling […]

A threatening storm is moving in! Who should I call for help?

Father Beats Uncle Every Time

  Who do you look for when the sky begins to fall? What is your plan if an adversary pins you to the mat and intends your career to be over? Who do you instinctively call out to when your world quits making sense and panic finds you calling out into the night of your […]

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Just Another Monday

  It’s Just Another Monday…  It’s 10:30 Monday morning, and Chicken Little was right all along…the sky is falling. Not in its entirety, but significant chunks are coming down. It began yesterday morning when our Children’s Director told me that two elementary Sunday School teachers wanted a year’s sabbatical from their classes. That evening I […]

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A Recent True Story

  No one should dread getting an email or Facebook message and faint while reading it. So I’ve cut my weekly devotionals down. I’ve been pretty good in my limited communication. However… Today’s personal story with two take-aways, needs extra words. My knee replacement was scheduled for April 5, 2023. I steeled myself for the […]

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God wants to talk with you!

Listen… God’s Speaking

God opened his mouth and hurled 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars across billions of light years. Counting them at one per second would consume the next fifteen hundred trillion years! (For just the stars in our small galaxy would only take you slightly less than ten thousand years to count!) God’s voice can break cedar trees (Psalm 29:5). […]