“But GROW!”

"From glory to glory He's changing me", and how does this happen? We hear the Word by which comes faith; we receive grace upon grace to go from faith to faith, which causes us to go from strength to strength. All the while we are growing up into Jesus Christ...

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Brand New

We all know the awesome experience of seeing something that is pristine, new. It evokes the senses, draws out the appreciation in us, fires the feelings. However, the phenomena of this “new” experience dwindles quickly as “new” becomes “old” in a short amount of time. We know the pattern instinctively....

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“Come Up Here!”

“After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, ‘Come up here!’ …” (Revelation 4:1). John the Apostle wrote of this encounter. This aging Apostle got a remarkable, angel-guided tour of Heaven that he detailed...

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My Assigned Portion

Once Jacob distanced himself from all that he valued and possessed on earth, he was available to give the Lord his undivided attention in a wrestling match, refusing to quit until the Lord blessed him. He prevailed, and one of the greatest blessings he came away with was that the...

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Inner Beauty

Some days no thoughts come. Too much sugar in last night’s snack? Maybe. The Complexity of a man’s soul; body and spirit also, make for an exciting life of wonder. Victor Frankl defined some of the complexity as the tension between objectivity and subjectivity in a person’s inner being. He...

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Two Men

Two brothers approached and offered God yield of their life occupations. One offered a sheep, the other fruit. God respected one offering, the other, He rejected. The Genesis story describes two men and their God, two men shaped in iniquity, two men born outside the presence of the Almighty, two...

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