
What to Do when Your Answer Doesn’t Come
When I hear of someone ringing the bell when their cancer treatment course is finished, I feel a deep-rooted hollowness —we never rang the bell…round after vicious round of cancer,…
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Hope for the Widow: Psalm 68
Psalm 68:4-74 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.5 A father of the fatherless,…
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March 25th
In ancient Egyptian tombs blown glass bottles have been found that have been named “tear bottles”. Legend says that the tears of the one left behind after a loved ones’…
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Needing to be in Control of People and Things
I was sweating as I worked to spread a layer of mulch that my younger boys and I had hauled from a huge pile dumped for us by a tree…
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Contentment
Philippians 4:11-13“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and…
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A Trustworthy God
Psalm 139:1-6, 9-10, & 17-18O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.3 Thou compassest my path…
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Value to Suffering – a Look at I Peter 5
1 Peter chapter 5 begins with a charge to the elder in the church, those saints who have longevity, experience, and maturity in their faith. Verse five continues the thought…
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That I May Know Him
Philippians 3:10“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” My childhood pastor, Dr Jack Hyles,…
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God is Good…Good is God
When I am in seasons of great heaviness, persecution, or distress it is so easy to focus and major in on the pain, its source, and its relentless grip on…
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“Suffering is Never for Nothing”–Elisabeth Elliot
“Let God use your pain as your pulpit.” Is a statement I have heard verbalized often. It causes me to regularly ponder. More than anything, I long to use the…
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