Tag: faith
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Ready?
Are you ready when your ‘Stephen’ moment happens? One of my favorite people in the Bible is Stephen and the recounting of his story in Acts is so, so powerful. We don’t hear a lot about Stephen but we do know that he was one of the first deacons, and man filled with wisdom and…
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Irrational Forgiveness
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17LGGQqjqK/?mibextid=wwXIfr “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.” Romans 13:11 (ESV) While teaching, I often reference how Potipher must have relayed to his wife that the Jewish boy she had falsely accused of…
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Vigils Calling Us to Vigilance
“O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see. There’s light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and…
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Tomorrow on earth is not guaranteed. Eternity is!
“Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” …
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He sat in the truck!
Hunting in Appalachian Kentucky was a survival event in those early decades, through the Great Depression and beyond. I have heard tales of hunger causing my family to kill and eat just about any animal. My white grandpa (my dad’s father, who lived in the white house), would eat just about anything. If I killed…
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The Bus Driver
My mother was a bus driver for 23 years before she left us for Heaven. She loved being a bus driver because she loved children. To parent’s of kindergarteners she was known as the ‘singing bus driver.’ She had this title because she would sing with the kindergartens as she drove them to and from…
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“When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.” I have posted the story of the song “It is Well” before and in the face of the tragedy that has unfolded in Texas, it seems inadequate yet relevant to post…
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There’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit in those Places
“Some bright morning, when this life is over, I’ll fly away…” Have you ever been to a place filled with joy, hope, faith and love. A place devoid of all the World says matters? A place where genuine care, brotherhood, sisterhood and family, trumped fleeting pursuits. A place that replaced want and need with acceptance…
Myron Speaks 