Category: Meditation
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Let’s Talk About Peter
“Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.” Luke 22:33-34 (NIV) Today, on this Holy Thursday, I look to Peter, the disciple with whom I can most relate. I believe…
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Love Them
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jesus this week… what He went through emotionally during this week leading up to His crucifixion isn’t something a lot of people talk about, but it has been running through my mind and heart constantly as I go about my regular daily business. Jesus knew He was going to…
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Say a Little Prayer
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” – Soren Kierkegaard As a child, I learned prayer from my parents and from Sunday School teachers. Every night, I would say my bedtime prayers, thinking that God would be mad at me if I didn’t. I don’t know where that idea came from,…
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The Power Greater than Me
“I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, but I could sense the love and peace of God in these two people, and I wanted what they had.” – The Prayer That Changes Everything, pg. 14 I read the quote above this morning when starting a new book by Stormie Omartian, one of my favorite…
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What the Devil Doesn’t Know
Born into the heart, she floats throughout each living soul. She fills the holes, caresses the troubles, soothes the angst, and repels the fears. And even when she seems to have gone for good, she is still there – never dormant or lost – always ready and available, waiting for a hand to grasp hers…
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As I look to Holy Week…
At the beginning of one of my classes this semester, we were asked to write a statement describing our own theological foundation. I wrote the following: “My theological foundation is my personal experience and walk with Jesus – as a child identifying with His suffering and as a recovering adult receiving His mercy and grace…
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God, I want what you want…
“God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.” – Andy Stanley I heard this quote a few years ago while listening to a podcast of Andy Stanley’s entitled: “Follow.” I remember wondering to myself if it was even possible to say it and really mean it. Since that time, a…
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How important is it…really?
When I’m not getting my way… When someone is disagreeing with my opinion… When I feel like I’m being overlooked by others… …that’s when I need to ask myself the question: How important is it…really? Is it worth losing a relationship because I always need to get what I want when I want it? Is…
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To Overcome This World
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (NIV) Life happens. Stuff goes wrong. Wars ensue. People hurt each other. The world spins out of control…or so it may seem. There is…
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“Although we’ve made it a world of hatred and envy and violence, the preponderance of evidence proves to me that it is a world created to inspire friendship and love and kindness.” – The City (pg. 339), by Dean Koontz When I read the quote above in The City last night, I stopped for a…