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The Mind-Numbing and the Soul-Satisfying

I’ve been feeling convicted lately that my coping mechanisms for overwhelm are not actually helping me.  They are mind-numbing rather than restful.  Oftentimes, after a long work day, or a mentally exhausting day, my body is worn out, my mind is worn out, but...
The Sight of Ramsina

The Sight of Ramsina

The day I gave birth to our second son, I met a blind lady named Ramsina.  She came to our church for the first and last time that day, and spent the entire afternoon, from the close of service until around 8 pm (when he breathed oxygen for the first time) praying...
The God Who Disciplines and Delights in Us.

The God Who Disciplines and Delights in Us.

I have been thinking a lot about parenting.  And about God.  Because God is in everything, and my mind loves to fly to Him. I have been contemplating how good parenting is a symbiotic relationship between discipline and delight.  Because God is a God who disciplines...

Suicide Prevention

Suicide struck close to home last week.  It’s not only my story to tell, and I’m not even sure I am ready to tell it even if it was, but if you are a pray-er, please lift us up, along with a host of our loved ones. This agonizing death has caused me to...
On Overcoming Bitterness

On Overcoming Bitterness

Do you remember the play/movie “Little Shop of Horrors”? If I remember correctly (it’s been a few decades since I’ve seen it), there was a man who owned a Venus Fly Trap, and had to keep murdering people to keep his plant fed. The plant consumed his life and all his...
Squatting with Kids

Squatting with Kids

There are two things I want to tell you about this picture… The first is that this is my pastor, and this is a perfect picture of why we love him so much.  I was just about to teach these same kids about ]Jesus doing the same thing.  He got on their level and...

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