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March 7, 2017
How to Face Your Future without Fear [Event]
I’m excited to teach at the Marathon Fellowship class on the topic: “How to Face Your Future without Fear.”Keep reading this post. >>>
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Date: March 12, 2017 Time: 8:45-10:00 AM Event: How to Face Your Future without Fear Topic: “How to Face Your Future without Fear” Sponsor: Stonebriar Community Church Venue: Marathon Adult Fellowship Location...
March 6, 2017
One Thing that May Make You Doubt God’s Presence
The Sinai Wilderness reminds us God's presence among us doesn’t always prove itself by our standards.
We know intellectually that God is with us. But sometimes our emotions haven’t gotten the message yet. We look at our Bible and it doesn’t seem to match our lives.
(Photo: Sinai mountains with book of Exodus. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
When our world screams that God isn’t with us, or that He doesn’t care, or that the way things are will never improve, we have to rememb...
March 3, 2017
The Greatest Leadership Lesson I’ve Learned from Jesus
Your people will always be your greatest product.
Jesus gave us many great examples of leadership. Servanthood, sacrifice, prayer—all essential. But one example more than any other has affected my life and my leadership.
(Photo by Photodune)
When we think about it, Jesus needed no one. As Paul wrote, “All things have been created through Him and for Him” (Colossians 1:16). In fact, the One who made the world with a word could have accomplished His whole ministry alone.
This ministry would hav...
March 1, 2017
How to Disarm Your Short Fuse of Impatience Right Now
Strength from God as you stand in life's long line of slow servers.
Do you have a long fuse or a short one when you get dawdling service at restaurants? For some reason, life hands us a long line of slow servers. At lunch not long ago my family got poor service from our waiter. Here’s what happened.
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I never let on to the waiter that I was miffed, yet inside my fuse was burning. Here’s why:
The table next to us ate and left before we did, though we arrived at the same tim...February 27, 2017
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem—An Ordinary Hill Made Holy
There's only one thing we can give our God who has everything.
Abraham saw the acreage. David bought the lot. Solomon built the house. Nebuchadnezzar tore it town. Zerubbabel rebuilt it. Herod the Great expanded it. Titus flattened it.
Before these temples stood on Mount Moriah, it was nothing but a hill used for threshing wheat. Hardly worth noticing.
(Photo: the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, courtesy of Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
But today, the Temple Mount remains the most precious pi...
February 21, 2017
How to Turn Your Life Around 360 Degrees
A God of impossibilities shows His power in impossible situations.
Life often feels like a lot of effort with nothing gained. It reminds me of what Jason Kidd said after the Dallas Mavericks drafted him: “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees!”
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At times, the Bible seems like a history book in which God makes and fulfills promises to the ancients, but the words somehow lack immediacy to our struggling lives. And yet, it’s funny how the anxieties that overwhelm...
February 19, 2017
Hebron—the Cave of Machpelah Stands as a Testimony of Faith
Good news: we lose nothing of God's promises in death.
It’s actually good news: death can teach us a lot about life. Specifically, we lose nothing of God’s promises when death occurs. The Cave of Machpelah in Hebron shows us why.
(Photo: The building that covers the “Cave of the Patriarchs” at Machpelah in Hebron. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
Towering like a fortress over the shoddy buildings that surround it, the ancient structure in Hebron covers a site sacred to Jews,...
February 17, 2017
Answers to Your Questions and 2 Questions for You
Last week I took a survey of my blog readers about a brand new project I’m releasing soon. As I mentioned, the project will offer virtual tours of the Holy Land with an emphasis on the devotional benefits of such a journey.
(Photo: Early morning at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem)
Many of you helped me out and participated. Thank you! I’d like to follow up by answering some questions you asked.
Plus—I still need your help with two questions, please.
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February 15, 2017
Ein Parath—Why You Should Absolutely Cling to God More
A simple illustration urges us to keep close to the Lord today.
It isn’t easy to cling to God every day. We need help to do so. That’s why the Lord commanded Jeremiah to buy a garment and bury it in the cracks of a beautiful spring called Ein Parath.
(Photo: Ein Parath. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
The Prophet Jeremiah used many illustrations which came from the land around him. The Lord’s command to bury a sash in the cracks of a spring is a great example:
Take the belt...
February 14, 2017
quote by Derek Kidner on the unique contribution of our character to our lives. [Quote]
Your character is the one thing you cannot borrow, lend or escape, for it is you.Keep reading this post. >>>
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Derek KidnerProverbs (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) (IVP Academic, 2009), 83.
