God has given us music for a reason. I’ve often thought of music as filling in the gap between where perfect expression thrives and verbal languages fail. It’s almost magical at times, what music can accomplish in the soul. Like most things in this life, God uses music as an illustration of how powerful and […]
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I’ve had a solid golf game for a while, but, like most golfers, I have a weak spot. For me, it’s putting. It has plagued me over the years. Even at the height of my golfing career, I could never call myself a great putter – good, yes, but never great. Too bad – I
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Integrity to God’s PurposesThere’s nothing heroic about burn-out. If you run the first mile of a marathon without regard for the remaining 25.2 miles, you’re an idiot, not a role model. “you are not your own”You have been purchased with the blood of Christ. You are the Lord’s personal possession (1Pe 2:9). Your body, your
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OUTLINE:The More I Love…Blog – 5/21/21 How can we be more obedient?Heb 12:11For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.Obedience (aka righteousness) means peace.Commit this to your memory RIGHT NOW!!! Self-Absorption Precludes Big-Picture Thinking“Drama kings and
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When I was growing up, there were only three “good” channels on the television. This meant we watched whatever was on, which often resulted in watching programs that, had we more options, we would have never chosen to watch. One of the most popular shows was the Miss America Pageant. At some point during the
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When I was young and still living at home with my mom – a single mother raising four kids, at times below the poverty line in America – I used to whine once in a while about not having what the other kids had. I wanted the new BMX bicycle, the new action figure, the
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For most people, getting out of bed in the morning is the start of their day. Get out on “the wrong side of the bed,” as they say, and you’re disheartened by the prospect of what lies ahead. When this happens, I have my worst days…days where I’m feeling particularly uninspired. It’s like a burden
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I wonder if the inventors of television ever imagined the impact their creation would have on the world. I wonder if they speculated how people would become slaves to massive flat screens projecting larger than life characters portraying disproportionally emotional dramas, or high school caricatures, or superhuman sports heroes. I wonder if they could see
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I recently read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. One of the characters, a farmer, was described as being quite content because he was, by contemporary social standards, uneducated. Because of this, he wasn’t distracted, drawn, or enticed by the lure of ‘better things’ outside of his ‘small’ circle of existence (I write with human perspective here).
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Do not allow temptation to fracture your thinking.Anytime we begin a thought with, “Well, it’s only natural,” we need to take pause and consider if we haven’t already set our course on a vector of thinking that will lead us away from “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). Just because we have access to the Truth
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