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My Thoughts: Swallow Your Pride…

The story of Jonah continues to teach me some very important life lessons. The four main points of this story for me today center around the action of Jonah in the four chapters of this story. 1. Jonah is running from God (Ch.1) – about pride 2. Jonah is running to God (Ch. 2) – about repentance 3. Jonah is running for God (Ch. 3) – about obedience 4. Jonah is running with God (Ch. 4) – about humility The first three points are nothing new to me. I am a prideful man who has run from God in the past. I am a broken man who continues to repent by running to God. I am an obedient man who has answered God’s call on my life by running for God in ministry and family… Read more

President Lincoln’s petition for prayer…

Might I be so bold as to ask our current politicians in Washington to read these words of wisdom and act accordingly? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to… Read more

What are you passionate about?

Last Sunday the message centered around Nehemiah’s activity of building the wall around Jerusalem. Nehemiah became burdened by the need for this wall to reestablish a holy people set apart for God’s purposes. His passion became the fuel to make it happen. In fact, as we read in the Scriptures this wall was finished in 52 days! What passion! What energy! What an accomplishment! What are you passionate about? What gives you energy? What goals, dreams, or visions are you being called to by God? Maybe you have ‘given up’ due to the chaos of life. Maybe you have ‘given in’ to the voices of your critics. Maybe you need to ‘give’ it to God and follow His plan despite your… Read more