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A Pop-Sized Picture of the Father
Although it was my intention during this visit to continue on in our discussion of overcoming, I have decided that in deference to Father’s Day (and since you have already met my mother), this would be a good time to introduce you to my father—my earthly one, that is. I find that I very seldom mention him to people these days but that isn’t due to any lack of love or respect, it is only because he has been gone from our lives for such a long time now. You see, back in 1972 he died suddenly of a heart attack at the relatively young age of fifty-eight–when I was…
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Welcome to the Overcomer’s Club!
Hi, and welcome back! After our last visit and our previous discussion about some of the more depressing aspects of the Christian life, I wasn’t altogether sure that you would be back. But I am glad that you weren’t scared off because today, I want to talk to you about one of the most positive and exciting realities of our Christian experience. In fact, what I have to share today is so good that we may have to once again resort to the use of sound effects! Before we get to all of that, however, let’s take a moment to review what we talked about last time—which is, Jesus…
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…But No One Said It Was Going to Be Easy!
During our last visit, I think we pretty well established the fact that life is really very simple, because it is all about Jesus. However, just because we have been able to reduce it to its simplest form, that does not mean that life is ever going to be easy. If you will recall my Basic Principle #1—that all of the events in our lives are designed for one of two purposes, either to bring us to Christ or to make us like Him—then just think of the many difficult things that each of us have had and will have to walk through or endure in order to arrive at…
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My Journey to the Land of Blog
Have you ever suddenly found yourself in a place and then wondered how you got there? Or, maybe you had actually been planning on a trip but then once you arrived at your destination, you felt like you needed to pinch yourself just to make sure that you were really there? Well, that’s the kind of situation I find myself in these days as far as this whole blogging business is concerned. I mean, as few as three months ago, if anyone had suggested that I write a blog, I would have laughed and said, “Do what?” That’s because, as the most private person I know as well as one…
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For There Ever to Have Been a “Me,” There First Had to Be a “She”
Hi and welcome back! Given that so much of this last week’s focus has been on remembering our mothers, I sincerely hope that there has been someone special in your life that you could honor or remember fondly this Mother’s Day. Probably because I spent the last week operating under the heady influence of so many wonderful “Happy Mother’s Day” wishes, when it came time for me to reflect on just what my next reflection should be, my thoughts automatically turned to the subject of mothers—particularly those mentioned in the Bible. And, since I am in the process of reflecting on all things prophetic, as my thoughts began running…
