Honor Mothers I honor mothers near and wide, Those departed or by our side. Moms’ voices in our hearts we hear, The wisdom taught us, is oh so dear. Moms encourage us to be strong, We lead with faith and carry on. You are there when an infant cries, Your prayers of healing touch the [...]

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No! Don’t Give Me Hope! Have you ever desired something so much that you refused to have hope? Perhaps, you feared having hope because the dream seemed nearly impossible so all you could imagine was that hope being dashed. The idea of false hope can be terrifying. Or perhaps you had hope for so long [...]

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I randomly ran across an article titled Why Premarital Counseling Didn’t Work For Me.  As the author shared on the failure of pre-marital counseling in her life, I was moved in compassion for the individual who wrote it.  But there were a few things that were very clear to me. First of all, the teaching [...]

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Father’s Pleasure I remember as a child, looking up from whatever I was doing and seeing my parents just staring at me. I thought they were weird, but now I catch myself doing that all the time with my kids. They are incredible and funky.  I get so much pleasure from my kids. I get [...]

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the AUTHORITY vested in YOU! Authority. We want it, right? It’s at the very fabric of our DNA. We want to have authority over something, someone. We strive for the respect that is derived from being in an authoritative role. Part of the great chase that exists in culture today centers on our drive to [...]

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Intimacy in a New Way Can I comfort You with what I say? Your heart is more gracious than we portray. I don’t want to ask you to come. You’re fully mine and fully inside. Don’t question your heart’s desire. Can I comfort You with my words? With my declaration of love and adoration declaring, [...]

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Making It Work Are we trying to live “normal” lives and make an institution work? If the church is just an institution, then we should be able to apply all the rules of business and see it grow as a business – more money, more employees, more influence. But is the world any better because [...]

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Love Never Fails – 1 Corinthians 13 Kind of Love This morning I sat down and wrote out nine Valentines Day cards… One to my beloved bride of almost eighteen years and eight more to the other loves of my life: Rebecca Joy, Abigail Grace, Elizabeth Faith, Anna Hope, Daniel Joseph, Naomi Love, Leah Mercy [...]

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Love Is an Art – 1 Corinthians 13 Kind of Love There’s a photograph hanging on the wall of my office of my third date with Hope. It was snapped candidly without our knowledge from behind. As you would look at it, it is of the two of us sitting close to each other on [...]

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Love is Everything – 1 Corinthians 13 Kind of Love In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul writes in verse 2 and 3 that “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I [...]

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