I’ve had several elderly people share with me over the past few years that getting old is like “becoming invisible.” Of course, this requires a bit of explanation, as that comment by itself could be misconstrued in myriad ways. So, let me share their perspective and my subsequent thoughts. One side comment worth noting here: […]
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I learned a very powerful lesson later in life that I wish I had learned earlier. If you’re younger than me and you’re reading this, then my encouragement is to listen closely – this blog may save you some recurring heartache, regret, and self-doubt. We humans live within the construct of time. This means that
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Solomon, the wisest man of his time, wrote at the very beginning of his book on wisdom: The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge
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Benjamin Franklin once quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While this is a humorous way of distilling the inescapable truths in life, it isn’t accurate by Biblical revelation. It does, however, reflect on the sense of futility one might experience in this world. King Solomon wrote
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A man buys a plot of land and sets out to build his dream home on it. He’s been saving up his whole life for this moment. He has house plans in hand, having spent years designing and redesigning, balancing aesthetic with function. Since he designed it himself, his intention is to build it himself.
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We all have a sense of fairness we use to evaluate judgement, whether in giving or receiving. For the most part, we obtain this scale of values through experience. For example, as parents we use the experiences from our own childhood to calculate what type and severity of punishment is fair for our children. If
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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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Depending on who you talk to, they say your “prime years” are in your thirties or forties. For athletics, it’s typically somewhere around thirty years old and for vocational success, it’s typically somewhere around forty years old. So, a lot of the limelight tends to be on these years in terms of what we assign
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In God’s spiritual economy, grace is the currency. What I mean is that if we think about anything of value in the spiritual life, it always begins with God as the source. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We must be weak to receive God’s grace properly. When God gives us grace, and we DO receive it properly, we work with it, diligently, to multiple God’s glory! When you understand the value of God’s currency (grace) in this life, you want to SPEND it!
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