Many of us enter this holiday season carrying the weights of difficult circumstances that never seem to change or improve. Here is a different perspective that can give us all hope.
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Christmas is upon us and most of us remember the fantasy of Santa Claus we had ourselves or that we passed onto our kids. Here is one of my memories with my youngest son, Jeremy…
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As more of our life is “in the rearview mirror” we are tempted to wallow in a futile longing for “the good old days.” This is not wise. There is a better way…
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Our world celebrates the beautiful people, the “chosen ones,” the brilliant, the powerful and the elite. Jesus sees people differently and so must we!
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A theft took place a few years back where the figure of Christ was stolen from a church building while the cross was left behind. This is a metaphor of what many foolishly of us have attempted to do…take Jesus but leave His cross behind!
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As it was in the early 70’s a song, “Easy To Be Hard” was made popular by the group Three Dog Night. The lyrics are still relevant as it is “easy” to talk about “social justice” but “to be hard” in our hearts towards those who need our love the most.
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Acquiring an eternal perspective on time is part of the “renewing of our minds” that will enable us to persevere and win our long-distance earthly race of faith.
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We have all grown up with the idea of political correctness but Cancel Culture is PC on steroids!
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Today, many of us have been intimidated and fooled to believe in the lie of our own irrelevance that we as Christians have to our culture…that is now in crisis.
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I just have come back from a trip where I had an opportunity to share God’s word with an elderly relative who is brand new in her walk with Christ. I got sidetracked and talked too much about peripheral and controversial things.
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“We have met the enemy and He is us” is Pogo’s famous quote from the cartoon strip. Our greatest enemy lies within!
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“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” Jesus asked. This question is vitally important to ask ourselves and others as long as we are alive!
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In today’s craziness and bombardment of evil silence is really not an option for us if we are to be faithful to Christ and be messengers of His hope.
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People-pleasing will cause us to “pick and choose” in our obedience to the Lord. That will impact our ability to finish strong and leave a godly legacy. We can learn from tragic example of King Saul..
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There will always be “glory” to pursue in this life, like the proverbial “new kid in town” the Eagles wrote about in 1976. But we can remind our children and grandchildren, as a repentant King Solomon did in his book of Ecclesiastes, how fleeting worldly accomplishments are compared to possessing the joy of having a steady heart of reverence towards God. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
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Our children and grandchildren are being told from all directions (in secular AND religious!) that Christ is “not enough.” We can remind them that He IS and that we have personally verified that He is! (Colossians 2:8-10)
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What a GIFT to our kids and grandkids if we are able to share stories where we humbly teach when we fall short as well as when we hit the mark! (Romans 8:28-29)
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It’s Father’s Day weekend. Two dangers I see for me…to look back and rest on my laurels or to look back and regret what I lacked.
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In this crazy world today, even more than ever, our children and grandchildren will be crying out, “Please tell me who I am!”
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Many Christians want to ignore the warnings of Jesus that “the road is difficult and only a few find it.” We think we need to hide or downplay its difficulty or else nonbelievers won’t want to take the road.
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