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How To Deal With Hurt

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As a parent to 22 children, I can say I’ve seen a squabble or two.  When you have broken people from eleven different families merged together,  plus your own brokenness, there’s bound to be conflict. Recently my two boys were wrestling on the trampoline. It got a little rough; one of them ended up getting thrown […]

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How To Conquer Anxiety

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When anxiety makes a bid for our souls and its grip tightens, it is clear that our eyes have wandered from the source of our help. For if our eyes were rightly on the LORD, we would have been found delighting in His consolations.  We need not fret or worry, we simply need to return […]

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How To Change The World

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    Oh, that our nation would experience  such promises from the LORD!   A nation led continually, with desires satisfied, even in the most scorched places.  Prosperity and abundance that even our bones would be fat with marrow.  Rather than hunger and scarcity there would be nutrishment as in a flourishing garden.  It would be […]

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Confess And Honor

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It’s easy for us to watch the news and see how sinful others are.  It’s also tempting to look at the state of our country and blame it on political party,  a program, or a person. When in reality, we are all responsible. Daniel understood this and includes himself among the sinners that have turned from […]

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All Of Creation Speaks

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   Since I was a child, I have wanted to go into space, hoping to probe the edges of the universe.  Finding out in the 5th grade I needed glasses was a severe blow to my dreams.  I decided instead if I couldn’t go up I would plunge the depths of the ocean; only later […]

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How To Overcome Despair

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There is no doubt that our situation can overwhelm us.  It can cause our emotions to spiral to a place of anger, frustration, hopelessness, and despair.  We can feel ourselves sinking in the water instead of being on top with Jesus. It is in these times that we don’t “feel” God is present or caring. […]

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The Same God For You

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   Did you catch this? The God of Peace who raised Jesus from the dead, is the same God equipping you with everything good and working in you everything that is pleasing to Him.  Wow! This is no small truth! This tells me that God’s plan in me is destined for success.  It’s hard to […]

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There Is No Other

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   These are pretty exclusive words.  “There is no other”. We live in a world that longs after inclusion rather than truth.  We would rather have a false sense of peace than solid fact if it means conflict.  God perfectly loves peace and truth but does not compromise either for the sake of temporary peace. […]