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Imagine: The Most Important Thing in the World
“What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world,but you knew they’d never believe you?“ In the time-travel movie Déjà Vu, Agent Douglas Carlin asked this question to a woman he desperately wanted to save from a terrorist. As with any fiction-type movie dealing with imaginative themes, if you’re the Continue reading
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Competence Matters, but Character Matters More
The mainstream media became enamored with Bill Clinton in 1992 and sought to convince the American people that “character doesn’t matter.”Let me share just a few of the hundreds of statements, in print and in the media, that exist on the record. You’ll quickly recognize this effort by the press to undermine the moral values Continue reading
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Have This Same Attitude
“My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings …” “If Christians don’t think of ‘holiness’ primarily as Christlikeness—we probably need to radically rethink whatever it is we have done with that word.” Jonathan Martin What does Christ look like, you ask. Think Philippians 2. In Continue reading
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Whew.
Whew: used to express variously relief, surprise, dismay, or disgust; an exclamation or a sharp breathing sound I have found myself using this one-word expression quite often in the last few months. I have to chuckle that it expresses very different emotions depending on the current situation or conversation. I have this feeling we’ve all been there Continue reading
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America: Inside Out
America’s beauty has been much more than outward. The purple mountains which majestically rise from the planes and fields as you ride through our country’s amazing road system are indeed stunning. But for a time, the beauty was not just skin deep. Many of the heroes & heroines we read of in history – the Continue reading
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Three Books, Plus One
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Jerry Bridges: The Discipline of Grace“To the degree that we live with an abiding sense of His love for us in Christ, to that degree will we love God with all our heart and soul and mind. Our worst days are never so bad Continue reading
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Waiting for The Silence to be Broken
Hannah did not know her place in the history of Israel. She couldn’t know (what we know)! I often don’t understand the why’s behind God’s purposes because I can’t fully see His plans when I am in the midst of my troubles. But I know this: God has a good plan. He did then, and Continue reading
Unchained Melodye 