The Strange Way I Came to Trust God and How You Can Too
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was young, my Uncle Simon was the most spiritual man I knew. He talked about God all the …
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Spiritual Formation
Sunday Psalm: A Prayer for those Parched for God’s Overflowing Presence
Reading Time: 3 minutes For most of my life I didn’t drink water the way the experts say you’re supposed to. In summer we …
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How to Have a Healthy, Meaningful Relationship: Treat it as Sacred
Reading Time: 5 minutes When my first daughter was born, I was naively advised by another new father to take my camera and record …
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Sunday Psalm: An Honest Prayer Asking God for Forgiveness, Redemption, and Renewal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Does our division as a world, country, and church stem from the fact that we are afraid to admit our …
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Sunday Psalm: A Prayer for Protection against My(Self) Enemies
Reading Time: 2 minutes An old comic strip called Pogo illustrated a powerful truth. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When …
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Dreams Dashed? You’re Not Lost. Sometimes the Path is Strange or Difficult
Reading Time: 6 minutes “People who hike sometimes get lost in the wilderness,” wrote the unknown author of the Cloud of Unknowing, a book …
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Sunday Psalm: Reverse the Curse of Death
Reading Time: 2 minutes I nearly died from a heart attack in December 2015. Praise God I did not. But since then I’ve realized …
How to Hear God in a Noisy World: Enjoy a Feast of Silence
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gordon Hempton, “The Sound Tracker” and a world renowned acoustic ecologist states, “silence is an endangered species,” meaning that there …
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Sunday Psalm: Hope in the Storms of Life
Reading Time: 2 minutes We live in a wild and wondrous world. Last Friday night we received 2.6 inches of rain between 11 P.M. …
How a Movie Scene Redefined and Renewed my Feeble Faith in Miracles
Reading Time: 5 minutes I wept when I rewatched the scenes from the Academy Award winning movie Crash. It’s a subplot about Daniel, his …
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