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My Calling to Fulfill

“To serve the present age; my calling to fulfill. O may it all my powers engage to do my Master’s will!” (A Charge to Keep I Have, verse...

Share All Good Things

Since 1984, Teacher Appreciation Week has occurred during the first full week of May. Perhaps you are a teacher, or you know a teacher,...

Crying in Church

Lately I have heard several people tell me they don’t want to come to services because they are so sad and upset that they will just cry...

Moses, Elijah, & Jesus

In Matthew 17 Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain. There, Jesus becomes radiant and His clothes luminescent. Moses and...

He Opens Minds to Understand

“Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of...

Zechariah 13.7-9

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the...

Pray for Me

I don’t have anything specific I need. No immediate problems or encumbering worries; conversely, things are going really well. I have my...

Where's Your Focus?

Paul had a long relationship with the church in Ephesus. In his letter to them he addresses theological issues in the first half and more...

Ephesians 5.12

Ephesians 5: 1-14 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a...

Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” John 14.1 (NIV) The next verses usually get top billing in...

Psalm 56

You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book? Ps. 56:8 (NKJV) As a child of God, we have many...

Why Do I Want You In Heaven?

I have been blessed to travel to many places and enjoy a vast array of life experiences. Rainforests and deserts; blizzards and...

When Soon is Not Soon

“I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring...

Death is Separation

Death is not exactly the most entertaining topic to discuss. For those left behind, death is often troubling, even shaking some to...

The Chosen

Have you seen the docuseries entitled: The Chosen? This semi-fictional piece of art coves the life of the men and women Jesus chose to...

What is Next Week?

From time to time someone will mention something I have said in a recent sermon, and it would typically be a bit puzzling to me. “That...

No Need To Ask

Tell me what you are excited about. Actually there is no need for me to ask that. And I’ll tell you why- you will without me asking you....

Joseph Did Not Consent

Luke 23.50-51 (reduction mine) “Joseph…of Arimathea…was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their...

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A most natural thing, unnaturally changed And wrenched from rest to work again What power here works cannot be feigned The bones! The...

When Feasting Runs Its Course

“And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and...

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