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Prayer Let’s Us Begin Again
One of the things I love about this time of year is the clean feeling I get that no matter how many times I failed myself in the past year, no matter how many times I missed a golden opportunity or failed to watch the sunrise, held back from speaking love and...
Flight Instructions for the New Year
SCHEDULED DEPARTURE: WEDNESDAY 12:01 AM Hello, welcome to ✈️ Flight #2020. We are prepared to take off into the New Year. Please make sure your Attitude and Blessings are secured and locked 🔒 in an upright position. All self-destructive devices should be turned off at...
The Role of Prayer in the Nativity Story
This week we celebrate the marvelous fact that our Creator loved us so much that he wanted to take on human flesh and be one of us. To use Eugene Peterson’s translation of John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.” This was on the...
When the Answer to Our Prayer for Others Comes Back to Bless Us
The late gospel singer Keith Green sang the words "Make my life a prayer to you. I want to do what you want me to..." In this memorable song he framed the act of prayer in a much larger context than words we speak over a meal, at a prayer meeting, or during a quiet...
The Praying Mom and the Grateful Soldier
I want to give a big shout out to my better-looking big brother, Dave Nielsen. In the mid 60's, when thousands of young men were burning their draft cards, Dave volunteered to serve. Dave always liked the ocean, and he enlisted with the US Navy. He was trained as a...
The Barbarian Call to Prayer
I have begun reading a marvelous book by Erwin Raphael McManus: “The Barbarian Way.” What a book! If you haven’t had the chance to read it, I recommend you do! It will challenge you to take inventory of why you follow Jesus, and give you some real clarity on what that...
Tale of Two Men Who Gave it All
Jesus tells a powerful parable in Matthew 13 that produces a FREEZE FRAME for us of two men who went all out to secure a treasure that they could not pass up. “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field. When a man discovered it, he buried it again. He...
Pray for Kanye and the Pro Life Movement!
There is a whisper going around the country about Kanye West. Many wonder if his conversion is real. Others of us marvel at the unbelief expressed in that sentiment. All of us are beginning to see the implications as the news rolls out. “Now that I’m in...
The Gray Champion Rises Again
For Such An Hour As This When, in the course of human events, a dark cloud of moral morass settles over a once righteous republic, when the foundations upon which this republic is built begin to erode, and when the attack upon those foundations is relentless, God...
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