May
07
Seven years ago, I stood under a star-studded sky in central Texas and made a decision. With a tinge of dramatic anticipation, I looked to Heaven and prayed my own paraphrase of Jeremiah 26:14: “Lord, do with me as seems good in Your sight.” And then I offered a particularly painful area to Him. But …
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Apr
10
You’ve heard the quote: “God is more concerned with our character than our comfort.” It’s a true statement, but it’s not the whole story. God’s concern with our comfort depends on what kind of comfort we are talking about. Do we mean that it is His job description to provide us with a comfortable, trouble-free …
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Mar
16
Two years ago this week, I found myself in a craft store in Northern California waiting on some friends. As waiting is what I do best when others are shopping (no, I’m not much of a shopper), I searched for entertainment—anything to help pass time. My eyes landed on an old book used as a …
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Feb
23
When I was little enough to be dumb, my uncle (who is just three years older than me) asked me a riddle: “Pete and Repeat went down to the lake. Pete fell in, so who was left?” The answer seemed so obvious, I couldn’t believe Scott thought this was a riddle. “Repeat.” “Okay, Pete and….” …
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Feb
06
“Hey, Monica. How ya doing?” Funny that this simple greeting, spoken several years ago, stands out so brightly in my mind. In fact, I remember the exact place I was standing when I heard it, and which direction Mrs. Harp was walking as she passed and said hello! So what made it so memorable? It …
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Jan
13
I’m reopening a blog post draft that I began almost six months ago, which wouldn’t be so bad if the first post hadn’t been about transmission trouble. I’m no mechanic, but I know more about a failing transmission now than before I began this post—either time. And I know that the loss of a transmission …
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Dec
08
…marks 171 years since David Livingstone first sailed for Africa. I recently had the opportunity to read another biography about Livingstone this summer. I was especially impressed as I learned that, in the minds of many, he didn’t have much “missionary promise” when he sailed for Africa. He wasn’t a bombastic preacher, and he didn’t …
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Nov
23
Think of the sounds that may emerge from an accordion when a non-musically-inclined beginner is working at it. Now, listen to it wail out the song “Count Your Blessings”—gasping in an off tempo that is struggling to keep in sync with people singing along. You have just listened to my one-evening debut with the accordion. …
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Nov
15
You can’t get much plainer than Philippians 4:4: “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.” But do we? Do we just punctuate our conversations with “praise the Lord”? Or do we really praise Him? In Christ, we find unlimited reasons to rejoice. Should we look to find joy in our circumstances, we …
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Sep
20
…is sometimes, believe it or not, rest. Yes, it’s that simple. Rest works wonders. It rejuvenates. It renews. It refreshes. It reenergizes. Sometimes when we are edgy and depleted, when we feel that we have no more to give, all we need is rest. Perhaps we need the rest of sleep. Perhaps we need the …
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