September 2023 Blog Posts (13)

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A couple years ago, I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, exhausted from trying to scale a personal mountain. All alone with a little time on my hands, I went to Nordstrom to buy a new lipstick--a little embarrassing to write, but true just the…

God has his ways and they are oft mysterious in the present.

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->What’s the reason Jesus Christ stepped directly into Paul’s path, then led him into darkness, then troubles,…

Loving a Terrorist?  An Admission.

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Regularly, I get Facebook requests from folks with strange names—strange to me, that is.  Unsure of the intent of my would be ‘friend’, I weigh each one before…

The circle widens and the plot thickens ~ 

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Greetings, Friends!

It has been quite a week as I moved residences (locally) in Wake Forest, North Carolina.…

Scriptural Readings: Romans 8:35-39

Miseries, this hidden enemy, will haunt us. They are inevitable, and we will face them sooner, if not later. We can never grow bigger than them. Being born in a third-world country, I have seen and experienced poverty, and trusting God is one option. These sensibilities drive us closer to God. That does not mean we need miseries, problems, and uncertainties to meet God on the…

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Yes, I do. I really do... I wanna go where everybody knows my name. Having moved away from that place in Southern California, I am dipping my toe into a new place where I want to belong--a…

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Sometimes we just need to get over ourselves. 

Today we get a front row seat of one who understands he has been forgiven of much, who gets over himself, over his shame and gets back in the…

The text came at the end of a harried day. 'Hey, can you talk?' I happened to see her message right when it came across my phone.

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I find people's last words riveting

--especially when they know they will soon be gone.

For that reason, Jesus' last words are so very valuable to us.

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Our setting: the…

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It was as if I had been studying, pondering, deliberating and writing just for him when out of the blue the young man said to me, ‘Hey, so I have some questions--you know about Christianity. I mean, come on—you really think…

A Prayer for you to Pray

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Friend,

Sometimes you are tired...

Sometimes you just grow weary in your own mind… you want to pray, but the words do not seem to come.  Or perhaps…