Category: Inspirational Story

Spring: The Time When Kings Go to Battle

I am loving these beautiful spring days! We have been blessed with some great weather recently. While, I enjoyed the snow for a brief period, I much prefer the beauty of a warm spring day. The Bible rarely mentions the season of spring, but it is used significantly in regard to when kings go out …

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We are Miserable Bracket Prophets

How is your bracket? In 2021, it is probably worse than normal. One thing for sure–it is broken! The final three perfect brackets lasted through 28 games, but fell with Maryland’s win over UConn. Only 0.42% of brackets remained perfect after the Oral Roberts win on the first day. In fact, after Friday’s first day …

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Camping Dangerously Close to the Edge

A family in England is being scolded by local authorities for camping just inches from a 280 feet sheer drop. To add to the concern, the area was experiencing landslides due to wet conditions and they were camped at a perilous location. A 30-year-old man with a 27-year-old woman and young child camped on the …

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Valentine Gifts for God

I hope you recognize Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to share expressions of your love. While the holiday is commercialized, there is value and significance as a culture in recognizing love, romance, and those who occupy unique and special places in our lives. So be sure and take advantage of this Valentine’s Day to share …

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Balancing Optimism with Reality

We are eleven months into the two week period of slowing the curve! Each step of this journey has been met with various predictions of when life will be back to “normal.” But, it seems that all these predictions have come up woefully short. This wears on your nerves! No matter where you fall on …

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Get Clear in 2021

2021 is moving quickly. Your New Year’s resolutions may already be slipping away. I have a good exercise for you to consider before more of 2021 slips by without accomplishing your goals. Consider this little formula, taken from a business book, for your life. “Clarity drives confidence, and confidence drives commitment!”* Clarify your Aims. Spend …

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Guilt Found in a Right Ear

I cracked my wife’s phone by dropping it accidentally in the garage. Every time I look at the phone, I think about this mistake–while also mindful of her forbearance with me. I had a van one time that had a big dent in the side, that was received from a deer who decided to come …

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God Heard the Cry of the Boy

Hagar had reached her breaking point. She had been sent away from her providers into the wilderness with only some bread, water, and her young son. The water bag had given its last drop. She put the child under some bushes and went a little ways off preparing for his and her eventual deaths. Should …

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Can We Be Thankful in 2020?

2020 has been a depressing year! It has been a year we would like to forget, but surely will not be able to forget. We could never have predicted–toilet paper shortages, no March Madness, virtual schooling, church cancellations, mask wearing, election nightmares, a pandemic, and even cancelled holiday gatherings. It has been a surprising, difficult, …

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Presence and Prayer

Our Lord was sorrowful and troubled. His heart was awash with emotions and feelings. His mind was confused with different desires. The greatest of conflicts was going on within his mind–would it be God’s will or the Son’s will? A day full of activity had finally come to a close. As the clock approaches midnight, …

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