KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: How to Be Strong and Courageous – blog 5/16/25 just remember the secret to Joshua’s success – faith manifested as obedience, for that is all courage is. If you’re obeying God, exercising faith in His Word, then you have nothing to worry about, but rather can look forward to being […]
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As a man, I’ve been taught my entire life that courage is a virtue that only the “best” of men possess in abundance. I don’t always feel so courageous. I’ve sometimes thought, “Well, Ed, maybe you’re just not built that way,” or, “Maybe you’re still missing something…some kind of secret ingredient that’ll magically fill you
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The good Lord had me rise before 4:30am today to write this blog. When He decides to get me up this early, it usually means there’s something on my heart that He wants me to capture. Today it involves the concept of encouragement, a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately. I’ve often taught from
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In case you haven’t seen the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the main character is an alien from outer space who gets displaced from his family for a time, bonds with a young boy, and is protected by a small group of kids from those who would do him harm (the “evil” scientists and such). I know,
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I guess it’s fair to say that people dance for different reasons. One of my all-time favorite country songs is The Dance by Garth Brooks. I suppose it’s because it somehow manages to capture those emotions that exist between risk and reward, particularly in our relationships. Even though it’s a romantic song, I think it
Leaven — Merriam-Webster.com I recall the first time I read of leaven in the Bible and was like, “Huh? What’s leaven?” Like anything in scripture, there’s always a context that we must understand before we can gather the fullness of its meaning. When Jesus, for example, used the term, it would’ve resonated immediately with His contemporaries. “He
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