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August 15, 2025 Today, we will discuss that last of our Spiritual Disciplines – Hospitality. In today’s culture, most churches are either digressing or dead. Why? Well, we don’t have the time, nor the space to go into all of details behind this issue, but may I suggest that the number one issue is because…
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August 14, 2025 Allow me to start with a bit of honesty, my human flesh prefers to receive way more than it wants to give. I’ll take a wild guess that your fleshly nature is probably closely aligned? Yet when we become followers of Jesus Christ, we realize that our Heavenly Father loved us so…
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August 13, 2025 Hopefully you have noticed that for the last few days we have been discussing “spiritual disciplines.” I am very much of the opinion that learning to walk with Jesus is a life-long experience, and as such, we need to develop a hand full of disciplines that we live out on a regular…
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August 12, 2025 Why is it that the best things for me seem to be the hardest things to do? I think it goes back to the battle between my flesh and God’s Spirit, a battle that has plagued every human who has ever walked across this ‘ol ball of dirt (except Jesus that is).…
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August 11, 2025 When someone is in a tough situation with little hope of getting relief, we may comment, “He doesn’t have a prayer,” meaning the situation is hopeless. However, for the Christ follower, there is always hope, there is always a time for prayer. In Matthew, Chapter 6, Jesus gave His disciples a model…
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It’s 3:30 a.m. and time to begin my Sunday morning discipline. For nearly the past 40 years, the Holy Spirit awakens me at this time to practice solitude with Him. It’s my time to quietly sit before the Lord and listen to what He has to say about who I am, and about what I…
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August 9, 2025 All day yesterday, we cut angles on heavy-duty steel roofing. Because of the steep angle, we can’t use a sheer, so each sheet has to be cut by hand. Between difficult cutting, climb back up the ladder, exact fitting each piece, climbing back down the ladder and starting the process again and…
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Here I sit at 4:30 a.m. on Friday, 8/8/25. I’ve read Scripture, I’ve prayed and now I write. Yesterday our friend Jeff helped us put in a new window on our ‘ol house. Oh, we had a plan: We were going to pop the window in right quick and then put a door in on…
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Today’s forecast is for 98 degrees, with wind and 14 percent humidity. Hot, dry and windy- the perfect recipe for quick spreading fires! A fire today is an extremely dangerous prospect. I awoke long before daylight; read Scripture, prayed and then decided to write. You see friends, these little notes that I write on a…
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One of the realities of getting older is knowing that I have seen more sunsets than I will ever see sunrises. Yesterday, I allowed my mind to take me on a “backwards” journey. I examined my life in ten-year increments. When I returned to sixty years ago, I saw a twelve-year-old, blond-haired boy who was…
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