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"You got to write about that," my friend said on the phone. "Naw...people will think I'm a religious nut." "No, they won't." She argued and won. So here I go. As most of you know I dedicate Mondays to fasting and prayer. Not that I'm trying to be a holy roller, but I...
“How do you fight fear when you travel alone…I mean, being blind?” a woman asked me after I spoke at a retreat. “Good question,” I said. “I have to think about that.” Years ago, I traveled from Orlando to La Paz, Bolivia by myself for the first time. I prayed and...
In the old detective stories the detectives would bring a suspect in. then one of the detectives would say to another one, "Give him the third degree." That man would then start interrogating the suspect. The other day I heard on an old radio show where the...
Do you feel like you are being threshed like wheat? Are there so many things going on in your life that you think you can’t bear one more bad thing? Read what the prophet Isaiah wrote: "The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. He doesn’t...
"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide...
"And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, 'Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you...
"in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." (1Thess 5:18, NET) I was taking a walk in the woods on a late August evening. Suddenly, a cool breeze started to blow and a single red maple leaf broke off of its tree and circled down and...
"As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand." (Jeremiah 18:6b) “Hmm, this flower should be growing like crazy, with all this rain lately”, I mused. Sure enough, it had been raining and raining, so with plenty of summer sunshine to go with it, the plant...
"Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest..." (Heb 4:11, NKJV) In last Saturday's Nugget, I told the story of how my efforts to keep Christmas restful last year failed miserably. I had tried so hard to keep the celebration simple, to pre-plan everything, to...
Today we come to the concluding part of our 4-parts series on fulfillment of Christmas-related prophecies... Saviour "As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. 'Joseph, son of David,' the angel said, 'do not be afraid to take Mary as your...
"Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." (Psalms 37:4) Right before Christmas in the year that I turned 71 years of age, for some reason I started thinking about the chocolate meringue pies that Mama used to make every...
"You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." (1 Peter 2:9) "You are...holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the...
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7) Uh oh. It was beginning to get bumpy. Fifteen or twenty thousand feet above the earth, our commuter plane was experiencing turbulence. “Everyone, please...