Time to Take Your Shoes Off, Part 2 ~ Holy Ground

When we closed out the first session of our Time to Take Your Shoes Off series last week, each of our two heroes, Moses and Joshua, were  Continue reading

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Time to Take Your Shoes Off, Part 1

I never really paid much attention to dealing with my shoes until I began having hips and knees replaced. In going through the process of six total joint replacement surgeries, my feet seemed to move south on me like retiring New Yorkers. They somehow  Continue reading

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Countering Mockery and Ridicule ~ Like Jesus Did

Demonically-inspired events are so commonplace in our world these days that people hardly notice them anymore, but two of them unfolded in the past week that struck my mind and heart in a way that I simply couldn’t ignore. One was the latest  Continue reading

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Restoring Unity, Part 2 ~ Undeterred Resolve in Unprecedented Times

To say the very least, things have changed in our country since we began this series last week, and if you haven’t already trashed most of your definitions of “normal” in reference to political cycles, you might want to go ahead and let most of them go. As I write this, the Continue reading

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Restoring Unity ~ God’s Way

As I began this post, the assassination attempt on former President Trump was just hours old. The country was reeling in shock, and the gravity of what had happened was just beginning to sink in. Now the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee is over, and Continue reading

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Practicing Spiritual Proximity

Have you ever had one of those moments when, in the midst of thinking insignificant thoughts about some very ordinary process, God decides to break in, and  Continue reading

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