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The Primary Planner of My Life

FocusCommit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. — Proverbs ...

When God Makes Lemonade

When I was thirty-seven, I woke up at 2:00 a.m. to sweat-soaked sheets and a fire in my body. My joints were swollen, tender to the touch, and my aching ...

Transformation: The Reluctant Journey

Everyone faces a reluctant journey: A wounded vet looks at the pain-filled path toward uncertain healing. A young schoolteacher discovers the terrors of the first year. A retiree faces uncertain ...

Sabbath: Can I Serve Jesus and Still Enjoy My Life?

Sunday feels odd without church in the morning. It’s the time in the week when we take our bearings, and if we miss it, we’re just following our noses. ~ ...

Love As Christ Loved

If you were to ask me if it’s okay for a man to cry, I’d say, “It depends on what kind of man you are.”Just like there are different kinds ...

How Long Will You Wait to Forgive?

I hadn’t seen my father for ten years. I had no photographs of him at all and just a vague memory of his face the last time I saw him.When ...

God Gives Lessons Over and Over: Learn the First Time

Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance. — Proverbs 1:5In my first job out of college, one of the people I worked ...

Disappointment: Jesus I Tried So Hard!

Dear Jesus,I tried so hard to make it work, but I failed. This situation didn’t end the way that I had hoped and expected it would, and I am so ...

Freedom: Remember His Marvelous Works

Remember His marvelous works which He has done. — Psalm 105:5 On July 3, 1776, following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reflected on that important day: ...

Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life

Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. — John 14:6 (NIV) Put your trust in Me, ...

Try a Little Kindness

Colossians 3:12 says,Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.Notice the word clothe. The Greek word literally means “put on.” ...

We Know That in All Things

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. — Romans 8:28What a tremendous claim ...

Hide and Seek

The story of God and the human race is a story of hide-and-seek. Only we get confused sometimes about who is IT.A bumper sticker that was popular years ago in ...

From Confession to Redemption

Wasting AwayMany of the Psalms are attributed to David. I believe he was paralyzed by the guilt of his past. However, somewhere along his journey he discovered the freedom that ...

He Loves You Too Much

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ...

There's Enough Grace to Go Around

Passage to ReadLaborers in the Vineyard, Matthew 20:1-16.Point to PonderWe all have expectations about what we deserve, and if we’re honest, most of those expectations are shaped by making comparisons. ...

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