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Saturday, September 20th, 2008Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
I usually have a light next to my bed that is turned on before I turn out the overhead light. That particular night I was […]
Time-Out with God
Friday, September 19th, 2008Exodus 20:8-9 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work…..”
Cecil B. DeMille once said, “You don’t break the Ten Commandments, you break yourself on the […]
Angry With God
Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Job 6:24 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.”
The other day I was running with one of my friends when it started to drizzle. He hollered up to the sky, “Is that the best you can do? Why don’t you send us some real rain with lightening […]
More Love
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Philippians 1:9 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ.”
There is a Jewish legend that tells of two farmers who are brothers. […]
A Life of Great Meaning
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Ecclesiastes 1:1-2 “Meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
Years ago when my daughters were little, Anna Camille, who was two years old went to a birthday party for one of her little friends. On the way home from the birthday party, Christina, who was six years old, named the goldfish that was Anna Camille’s […]
Do We Have Empathy For Others?
Monday, September 15th, 2008Luke 15:18 “I will set out and go back to my father.”
Empathy means understanding or compassion for others. Most of the true empathy of my life has grown from pain. The pain I’ve seen in others faces and the pain I’ve experienced at the hands of others. As a pastor, mostly you have to watch […]
Easy to Forget
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Psalm 139:4 ”Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.”
I recently saw a production of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. When my children were little, Averette and I would read this story to them. As I watched the production I had forgotten how much I loved the story. It […]
You Don’t Always Have To Be The Same
Friday, September 12th, 2008Romans 12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
S t. Teresa of Avila was a Spanish religious figure who was born in 1515. She […]
Discerning Listening
Thursday, September 11th, 2008All of my life I have attempted to listen to God. In the last few months I have been re-reading my old sermons. It seems incumbent that I must dispose of thirty years of preaching. Rereading the sermons daily I am realizing the beauty of these great conversations with God and my congregation. All those […]
Free to Forgive
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Matthew 6:14
“If you forgive people their sins, your Father in heaven will forgive your sins also. If you do not forgive people their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”
In re-reading a sermon from 1992 I found this beautiful story of the life of Corrie ten Boom. Caroline, who was eleven at the time, […]
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