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Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself!
July 21, 2026 There are a lot of us running around with self-inflicted wounds, wounds we certainly don’t need to give to ourselves. And yet we do it all the time. We are world-class when it comes to condemning ourselves – we are never good enough, we can’t do anything right, we deserve to be…
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Forgetful? That could be a good thing!
July 14, 2026 Isn’t it amazing how we often have more trouble forgetting than God does! That statement may sound puzzling to you – and rightly so! But I’m talking about forgetting when it comes to confession of sin. Listen again to this familiar promise in 1 John. 1 John 1:9 (NLT) – “But if…
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One of Those Days!
Have you ever had one of those days? Or maybe it was a week? Or a month? Or a year? I’m talking about those days when everything works against you, when people you count on let you down, days when trouble just hound you and beat against you and push you down. If you haven’t…
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God bless America on her 250th anniversary! Or maybe not!
In 1938, as storm clouds of war darkened the horizon in Europe, composer Irving Berlin sat down to write what has become a second national anthem for the United States – “God Bless America.” This song was propelled to greatness by singer Kate Smith, and now it has become a catch phrase for almost every…
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I Can’t Keep Up!
June 22, 2026 If you don’t like change, I pity you. Everything changes and it is accelerating at an alarming rate. How can we possibly keep up with all the changes? When I graduated from college back in the dark ages, my parents gave me a cassette recorder/player for graduation. I thought I was in…
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Everywhere You Look!
June 16, 2026 I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that our world is getting more and more wicked. I am in my 6th decade of church ministry and I can’t remember a time when our world and our society was so blatantly bad! We read about all the things that have…
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Learning to Walk Again!
June 10, 2026 For those of us who are parents or grandparents, do you recall when your child or grandchild was learning to walk as an infant? They were pretty wobbly, weren’t they? And when they fell down, what did we do? We lifted them up and encouraged them to try again. And sometimes to…
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Will You Miss Christmas This Year?
That’s an odd question, isn’t it? No holiday is more recognized and observed worldwide than Christmas. How would it be possible to miss Christmas when everywhere we turn there are Christmas trees, Christmas decorations, Christmas music, TV ads for gifts, special recipes, and food, all designed to point to Christmas? Unfortunately, it is easy to…
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The Name of God Is a Verb!
Psalm 135 calls for His people to “praise the name of the Lord.” Psalm 135:1 (NLT) – “Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord! Praise him, you who serve the Lord.” In verse 3 we are given the reason why we should praise the name of the Lord: “Praise the Lord, for the…
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Here We Go Again!
Life and history move in cycles. Similar events seem to come around on a regular basis. The events of this week in Israel and the Gaza Strip remind me of similar “earth-shattering” events throughout my 75 years here on earth. There was the cold war standoff between the United States and the USSR. Add to…
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Aiding understanding and appreciation of God's Word, the Bible.
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