Life gets in the way

Hey, it was my intention to publish a post every day.  Although I have been told that this is very aggressive, it remains my hope to get back on track and make daily contributions.  I am encouraged by the direct feedback that I get from visitors (though my posts have gotten very few comments – unlike I…
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How can we not love God?

How can we not love God?  He fashioned us in His image.  He created all things for our pleasure.  He has given us dominion over the earth.  We can’t even see His creation the way He intended because we have so corrupted it.  And because of our corrupt nature, because we just can’t seem to get it right,…
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Do you like a challenge?

Sometimes things get overly complicated.  We take in so much information in a given day, it’s difficult to digest it all, much less put something into practice.  Yesterday, I read an article that acknowledged this.  It listed a number of things right up front that would lead to a particular outcome.  Then, it said, “Reading…
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Does God move in the hearts of men?

Last Saturday, I published a post entitled “Are you ready for a change?“  I expressed a disappointment in myself for contributing to the world being the way that it is – a sinful world that apparently is becoming progressively more sinful.  I have been part of the popular culture, which appears to lack any trace of God. …
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Do you believe in miracles?

This is an extension of a post that was published yesterday entitled “Do you believe in visions?“  Visions, prophecy and miracles are all mystical things that happen in the bible.  The word “mystical” is deliberately used here.  It means “having a spiritual meaning or reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the…
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Do you believe in visions?

When I was younger, I had what I believe were visions.  I remember lying in bed one evening.  As I was drifting to sleep, a small black spot formed on the ceiling.  In the moonlit night, the spot began to grow or spread, like an oil spill.  I do not know that significance of this but it…
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What could we accomplish if we were united?

Christians are not united, not as a whole, not in really effective numbers.  We have dominations.  Within denominations, we have churches.  Within churches, we are often divided into small groups or cells.  We are divided, not united.  I can remember as a very young child, during the civil rights movement, how the African-Americans rallied together,…
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When can you be too good?

Can you honestly be too good?  What do I mean by “good?”  I mean “good” in accordance with God’s standards, to the extent that we can be good.  God is a never changing God, whose standards never change.  He commands that we put Him first before all else.  We cannot worship any other God.  We…
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Are you willing to share what you have?

This is a continuation of a post published yesterday entitled “How is your attitude?“  It referred to a movie entitled “The Good Lie,” which was about civil war refugees who made a barefoot journey over 750 miles from South Sudan to Kenya.  They had very little to sustain themselves.  Aside from the clothes on their backs,…
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How is your attitude?

My wife and I recently watched a movie entitled “The Good Lie.”  It was about children of South Sudan displaced by civil unrest.  In an opening scene, rebel soldiers attacked a Sudanese village, slaughtering all but a handful of young children.  These surviving young children began a barefoot journey from Sudan towards Ethiopia.  Over 550 miles into their trek, they had…
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