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The Danger of Living Under Your Assumed Name (a confessional post)
Are you someone who tries very hard? Are you a person who loves Jesus dearly, reads His Word daily, and wants to be found applying that Word to Your life? Are you, like me, someone who sometimes gets caught up in the hard trying, the striving, the effort of this life with Christ? This post, …[ read more ]
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Perseverance – The Loneliest, Most Underestimated Virtue
Perseverance. Such a lonely, uncelebrated virtue. And yet, like an unassuming seed that falls to the ground with no witness to its burial, perseverance does its work deep within our souls and then suddenly bursts forth from the earth of our lives with the power of life to break through death and produce beautiful, rich, …[ read more ]
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An Open Letter to the Dragon (On the Death of the Saints)
In light of our remembrance this week of Jesus’ great triumph over Satan and death, and in view of what we endure in the face of this pandemic, I thought of this excerpt from my first book, Running from a Crazy Man (and other adventures traveling with Jesus) . In this “letter”, I refer to the second coming of Jesus Christ and why, as that time …[ read more ]
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The Half-Life of a Believer Lingering in the Tomb
Death is a cold thud onto unforgiving earth. It’s the keening wail of a bereft soul. Death is an empty stare. An icy rain. A debt come due in a dry season. An unwelcome knock at the door. A thief in the night. A dagger at your rib. A hand around your throat. A betrayal. …[ read more ]
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Jesus, Only Jesus – He is Alive
“May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his …[ read more ]