Mon Nov 3-Unseen But Known
How often do you feel unseen? You give your best at home, at work, or in serving the community, yet it seems no one notices. You may begin to wonder whether what you do even matters.
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Fri Oct 31-Stay in the Promise
The idea that “life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward,” is attributed to the 19th-century Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard. I’ve often preached it this way: “We typically only see God in the rearview mirror.”
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Tue Oct 21-VIP
This is one of those passages that’s liable to be misinterpreted – not because it’s message isn’t clear, noble or good, but because many of us in the church struggle with our own self-perception.
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Fri Oct 17-It All Belongs
“Now, now, this is no time for _____.” How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said it?
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Wed Oct 8-Correction
No one likes being told they’re wrong. Whether it comes from a spouse, a sibling, a friend, or a colleague, correction is uncomfortable. Most of us never learned how to receive it without becoming defensive. Our first instinct is to push back – sometimes loudly and angrily.
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Wed Sep 24-It Matters
When my grandmother died in 1998 and I offered to speak at her funeral, this scripture leapt to mind. I guess you might say this was the first Bible passage I ever preached.
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Fri Sep 5-Like Trees Planted by Water
While I was in seminary, I was invited to help teach an adult VBS in a Baptist Church, and Psalm 1 was our guide through the week. I had never taught adults at VBS before, and so this was a brand new experience.
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Thu Aug 21-Refuge
The psalms return again and again to this image of God as a refuge — a stronghold, a fortress, a shelter, a rock. All of these metaphors point to one truth: in God we find safety when the world around threatens to undo us.
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Mon Aug 11-But…
The word that really stuck out to me when reading this Psalm was “but” in verse 4. How many
times do we say “but” to ourselves when we are thinking about doing something new or doing something hard or even doing something fun?
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Fri Aug 8-Not Hoarded, But Shared
In the upside-down economy of Jesus, the only things we get to keep are those we give away.
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Wed Aug 6 – God Already Knows
Luke 12:22-31 (CEB) 22 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you
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Fri Jul 10-A Throne Built to Last
I know it’s not Christmas…but I can’t help thinking of one of my favorite scenes from the movie Elf. Buddy confronts the department store Santa and blurts out: “You sit on a throne of lies!”
