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I quit!

“I quit! I guess I’ll never be able to tie my shoes. Guess I can’t go to kindergarten.” My son’s heart wrenching dramatic despair played like a broken record over and over in my mind. Why does he always quit before he begins? I just don’t get it! Trying to ...

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Leave The Bucket Behind

“If being baptized by water saves you, as some religions claim, then why are we not dumping buckets of “holy water” on people everywhere?” Being raised in a religious household with this exact idea, and having been baptized as a baby, the question caught me off guard and started to ...

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Don’t Buy What They’re Selling

Magazines…billboards…movies…T.V. commercials, they all seek to sell their version of beauty. Each avenue has an opinion on how we should look in order to be accepted. Psalm 139: 13-14 confirms that God created us from the womb, and we were fearfully and wonderfully made. Yet society—and its groupies, social media ...

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Integrity Needed – Could You Be The One?

We are fast-approaching that time of year again. The time when candidates fill our mailboxes and we get bombarded, over the airwaves, with ‘approved messages.’ Do you dread the upcoming political season and all the mudslinging that is sure to arrive with it? Do you believe that one day we will be able ...

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Do-Overs

Forgiven

No matter how far or how long we’ve fallen, there’s hope and bright futures ahead for Christ followers. Everyone accumulates past failures but God delights in giving second chances. Matter of fact, to our astonishment, He grants unlimited opportunities until complete restoration occurs “No temptation has overtaken you except such ...

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OUR HOPE: The Crooked Road

Have you ever taken a crooked road to arrive at an oft visited destination?  Did it take you longer than the road you usually take, which is straight and direct?  Was it more pleasant to travel, or did it present more difficulties?  And when you reached that destination, were you fresh ...

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Living a lie

“Can I tell you something really heavy?  With dark, pleading eyes, Kayshon asked, “You remember the boy who was killed two weeks ago?  You remember the kid who shot him…well, he was in my face the day before.”  His voice trailed off as he mumbled, “It could have been me.” ...

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