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Taking a Trip to a place called “Starting Again”
“I am about the do a new thing,now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert…” Isaiah 43:19 Sometimes, we all need to start over. Fresh. New. Begin Again! A friend of mine sent this little piece to me years ago. It…
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Feeding on Dreams of Hope
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.” Aeschylus(525 BC – 456 BC), Agamemnon What are you hungry for? What do you reach for to feed your soul?Forty Five years ago today, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared with the world a very simple yet profound dream. He made it…
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God’s Change…
Sam Cooke sang, “A Change is Gonna Come” with incredible power. It reflected what he believed to be true: it was the 1960’s and Jim Crow was alive and kicking. He couldn’t even hang out with his friends without getting arrested. Couldn’t stay in the hotels he headlined. But he knew that change was coming.…
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All Things…even the breaking point.
“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28 Who would ever imagine that the process of reaching the breaking point could work to your good? Have you ever been to the breaking point before? It’s not a pretty place. One of the most important things we can…
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Honest Questions and An Answer…
“And it came about that after three days, they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.“ Matthew 2:46 (NASB) They big questions we grapple with as children sometimes end up being the same questions that haunt us for the rest of our…
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Something Bigger and Beyond Ourselves
Walking along the beach of Lake Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers: Simon (later called Peter) and Andrew. They were fishing, throwing their nets into the lake. It was their regular work. Jesus said to them, “Come with me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you.” I’ll show you how to catch men…
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Come Alive!
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman I’m always curious about how people manage the pain in their lives. Although I have never asked the question, I am very observant. I think that…
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God Has Heard
14So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the…
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The Blessing of Elders who Bear the Burden of the People
So the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you. I will come down and talk with you there, and…
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Keep On Singing
The world is full of bullies. Bullying is a form of violence — it happens when someone who has more power (physical, social, emotional, etc.) targets someone of perceived “lesser power.” I wish we could all respond to bullies as Andrew Johnston has responded to the children who have bullied him. Andrew is a 13…
A Voice In Ramah
Another world is possible…
A Voice In Ramah 