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When You Feel Like Crawling Into A Hole
The other day, I was invited to share from the Word with a small group. They were an unassuming, unthreatening bunch of folk. My material was prepped and ready to go. In fact, I had presented the same content twice before to other groups. Plus, I was speaking from Scripture to a group of Christians, ...
When You Feel Like You’re Not In Control
“What in the world am I doing on this thing?”
That single thought seized me as I found myself suspended from what was essentially a swing on steroids, 40 feet above the ground.
The “thing” was actually called “The Giant Swing” and it was one of the activities at an adventure park we visited over the weekend.
Not ...
When You Don’t Know Which Way To Turn
Three men walk into a desert and get lost for seven days.
Sounds like the start of a cheesy joke?
Well, there’s no punchline—it’s actually the beginning of an interesting narrative in the book of 2 Kings.
The three men were, in fact, kings. (Not to be confused with the magi who visited baby Jesus, although I’m not ...
A Prayer in the Midst of Powerlessness
I’ve been grappling about what to share during this time when the world as we know it seems to be collapsing.
If there’s one thing that this virus has revealed to us it’s our absolute powerlessness. Yes, we wash our hands for 20 seconds and disinfect every surface and sanitize our surroundings. But, ultimately, the ...