Anxiety

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 […]

Christian living

Are You Stupid?

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Nobody likes being called stupid and we even teach our kids not to use that word to try to prevent that from happening, but the reality is, we have a choice to be stupid if we want to. Learning requires discipline both from self and from a teacher.  Correction is also necessary so that we […]

Christian living

Matchless Wisdom

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   The Wisdom’s of God is certainly different from worldly wisdom.  Godly wisdom is, “…first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.” (‭‭James‬ ‭3:17‬ ‭NASB‬‬). Godly wisdom has a gentle strength and confidence that cannot be broken nor matched by the world.  Wisdom tells us that we need […]

Encouragement

Operation Family Thrive

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                    Hey Friends! Our family is continuing to takes steps in our health journey. That in and of itself can be a challenge Now multiply that difficulty by having a large family and it almost seems impossible. Sounds like my kind of challenge. Nothing is impossible […]

Christian living

5 Day Cleanse Experiment – After Day 5

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Thanks for sticking it out with me all 5 days.  It was quite a challenge for me, especially with my wife’s good cooking and all the companion smells that were coming from the kitchen. As far as the taste of the shakes and snacks, these are all foods that I like anyway like fruit, nuts, […]

Christian living

5 Day Cleanse Experiment – After Day 4

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Discipline is something that seems to be a fleeting concept in our society.  We only get doses of it when we see interviews of great Olympians or maybe attend a motivational conference.  As Christians our lives are to be marked with discipline and self-control.  These are a gift and our strength to carry them out […]

Encouragement

Who am I? – Part 1

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This is a question that plagues most of us at some point during our lifetime.  For Christians it’s even more intense as it is often connected to the question, “Am I doing what God wants me to be doing”.  These questions point us to one word…Identity.  Over time the word identity has come to include […]

Encouragement

Am I valuable?

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In a post self-help world, we hear many things about “telling yourself you are valuable”.  This works great if you happened to be in a place where you generally feel good about yourself, but what happens if you see nothing good when you look in the mirror?  I’ve grappled with this personally as someone who […]