It’s hard to hold on to hope, when you’re waiting in the dark, doing daily combat with oppressing fears. Sometimes, you listen to sermons, you read the Bible, you fight “the dark” for all you’re worth—clutching for truth as if your life depends upon it—because it does. I have those days when I have a strong grip on hope.…
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You think this storm has been raging way too long, yes? There have been days when you believed, ” …this will be the end of me.” You looked at your depleted strength, your absent support, your meager resources, and you thought, “I can’t go on like this.” And still the storms kept coming; kept beating…
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Moses is a hero of mine because he was an ordinary guy who lived an extraordinary life. He had family issues. He had a bad temper. He was called by God to throw down with some of the worst bullies of his day, yet God used this humble and insecure man to change a nations destiny, and…
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We all have had doors that we have walked through expecting to find that moment of maximum opportunity. We step across that threshold with a certainty that this will be it! That moment when we would meet our destiny, only to realize later that this was not what we had hoped or expected. We made…
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Whenever I hear the words “becoming real” I think of the fairy tale: The Velveteen Rabbit. It has taken me a lifetime—this unlearning, this surrendering to the undoing of God. Getting back to what God originally made, when beginning to create me, in my mother’s womb. Back to me—all by myself. No props. No safety nets,…
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