My heart breaks whenever I hear a person utter words about how worthless they are. I get angry whenever I hear someone say that about someone else. If you were worth creating, then you’re worth something to the Lord. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, […]
There’s an old secular saying, “Sh*t happens.” Sidenote: Far be it for a pastor to write a swear word, but I ask for your leniency here so I may make my point. Besides, what is ungodly swearing except to take the Lord’s name in vain? Do we let this world who curses God decide that
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How much time do you think you have wasted dwelling on the past and the future? If you were to calculate it, you might be stunned. And yet, neither the past nor the future have anything to do with right now, the only reality that is “real”, where your truest chance for peace, contentment, and
So, you want to be rich and famous, or even just like someone else, huh? Maybe it’s your favorite actor, athlete, politician, or neighbor. Maybe it’s a fictitious amalgamation of character traits you’ve knitted together after years of scrolling social media posts. Maybe it’s something your parents ingrained in you at a young age. There
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Have you ever taken a personality test? There are multiple, but I believe the most popular one is the Myers-Briggs test. In these tests you answer a battery of questions and at the end are presented with a personality type. For example, there are 16 different types of personalities according to Myers-Briggs. I’ve taken the
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We tend to have a misplaced expectation of superior athletes in this country. We look at people like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, or Serena Williams and think, “They have a great career ahead of them as a coach. After all, they’ve obviously mastered their sport and have a lot of wisdom to share, right?” While
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been at your wits end. I see you in my mind right now with your hand up because, let’s face it, we’ve all been there! Whether it’s regarding your job, your finances, your kids, or whatever, the simple fact is that at some point in our lives we feel like throwing
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If you read last week’s blog, you know that I when I sat down in the morning to write it, I became immediately irritated because of a nagging disruption placed there, apparently for my benefit. Rather than attempting to fight off the distraction, I embraced it as a teaching moment. The result was a blog
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I wasn’t sure what the Spirit would have me write this week, so I began setting up my Mac environment with my typical writing, research, and Bible tools, when up pops this new “feature” in my Microsoft 365 Word app call “co-pilot”. Now, mind you, I didn’t ask to have this feature installed and I
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We need friends. We need them as they need us. The world’s population is ever-increasing and yet it seems that people are lonelier than ever. How is this possible? I mean, you’d think bumping into more people would mean more friends, right? Yet the more people there are, the more people compress and hibernate. Are
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