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Watch for THIS so you can run your race!

It’s one thing to be sick over the sin in our culture, but it’s entirely another, and necessary, to have times when I’m sick over my own sin. When you ask the Lord to show you your sin, He does. And it is always out of His kindness that God shows us and leads usContinue reading “Watch for THIS so you can run your race!”

Two criminals. Which one are you?

Those two criminals.Bleeding.Bruised.Guilty. In the Savior’s final moments, one criminal hung on each side of Him. Those two represent all of us.We are each likeoneor the otherof them. It’s no accident, this true picture. There they were.So close to Jesus.Can you imagine? They both knew who He was.But only one of them would be saved.Continue reading “Two criminals. Which one are you?”

Others are going to hurt us.

Others are going to hurt us this side of Heaven. And, it seems, those closest to us can hurt us the most. As Paul sat in prison, he had been abandoned and betrayed by his friends Phygellus and Hermogenes (2 Tim 1:15). Paul felt this hurt. It’s significant to me that Paul did not complainContinue reading “Others are going to hurt us.”

Thank God! I’m not the sum of what I’ve done.

You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. Psalm 31:5 Disappointed and sad could only begin to describe the way I felt after learning one of my kids had made a really, stupid, sinful decision many years ago. Something happened that I wish had never happened, yet God was at work. He brought conviction,Continue reading “Thank God! I’m not the sum of what I’ve done.”

Hurt to Freedom

Shared with permission from my sons- I watched them climb the old cemetery concrete steps together today. As much as I had wanted to do this for them. I could not. Oh, I had tried but I could not. I couldn’t climb those steps for them. It was a holy moment. A hard moment. AndContinue reading “Hurt to Freedom”

a dark day

Today marks another anniversary of an awful decision. The decision our country made to legalize abortion and usher in waves of pain to those who live with its‘ memory. And abortion is always painful. I couldn’t stop the choking tears when I watched “The Unplanned” movie portray the ultrasound images of the tiny baby pushingContinue reading “a dark day”