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8/13/2023 0 Comments

The Warrior is a Child

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Dad sits at the small kitchen table with his Marine ball cap covering his scattered gray hair.  His brow is furrowed, and his piercing blue eyes appear deep in thought. Slowly he adds words to a journal that increasingly makes little sense.  I asked what he was writing, and he shared that he was composing thoughts on how God likes eggs cooked.  I had just asked him how he wanted his eggs that morning; that thought was fixed in his mind.

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8/2/2023 0 Comments

Thinking of You

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When there is a death in the family, it is so encouraging to see people rally around and step up to provide support and comfort through meals, cards, flowers, phone calls, and just being present to listen, console, and encourage. The sting of death is not erased; the pain is real and sometimes overwhelming, but a caring community can and does make a difference.

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2/28/2023 0 Comments

From a Deeper Place

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Hannah suffered from three places. First was the place of torment. She had a rival—a woman who taunted her severely to provoke her, often reducing her to tears and enflamed resentment. Second was the place of pain. She could not bear a child, which ate at her soul as she felt God’s withholding hand.  Not even the encouragement of her loving husband could ease the ache she carried. Third was the place of misunderstanding. Eli, the priest, mistook Hannah’s silent prayer in her anguished worship. He saw her moving lips and thought she was drunk. Instead of investigating, he scolded her and told her to stop drinking.

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12/16/2022 0 Comments

Grief

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Grief is a day shrouded in fog and icy rain fed by a howling wind. It is spoiled fruit no longer fit to be savored. Grief makes its exhausted bed in a hidden cave on a barren mountain ridge called Sorrow.  It rests in rare moments of silence and grows weary amidst mindless laughter. Its tears leave furrows unfilled by platitudes. When its memories are roused, new rivers flow, and expectation is uprooted, torn, and damaged. ​

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12/16/2021 0 Comments

Nahum--Pronouncing God's Vengeance

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Nahum, the only person with that name in the Old Testament, prophesied against the nation of Assyria particularly against its capital city Nineveh—located about 220 miles north of modern Baghdad in Iraq.[1] But unlike when Jonah brought God’s warnings against Nineveh and the city repented, Nahum’s audience was proud and perversely wicked—completely unwilling to listen to God and therefore destined to experience His wrath. 

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6/15/2021 0 Comments

Suubi House

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West Point classmate Bill Bowman shared his story with the Long Eternal Line team who gather each Tuesday night for prayer. Bill suffered a bad car accident that crushed his back and should have left him permanently paralyzed.  While in the hospital Bill shared how Jesus held him and comforted him.  Bill apologized for not walking the right path and the Lord shared with him that his story was not over yet.  Miraculously, Bill and his wife were able to have a baby girl they named Sarah.  Bill nicknamed her Suubi—a name that stuck.

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7/9/2020 1 Comment

Crushed!

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While working on getting a book published I still lacked the artwork and so I called Bruce,* my project manager, to find out the status.  When he answered the phone, it was obvious by the tone in his voice that he was stressed.  Instead of diving into my request, I asked him how he was doing.  Bruce sighed and then shared.  “I’m going through a divorce . . . my house flooded and I’m having to replace the flooring in several rooms and it is not covered by insurance.  I’m not sure if I can get a loan.  I have an ulcer . . . my mother died and left me her house in a trust but one of the trustees was dishonest and it turned out that there is a lien on the home for unpaid debt . . .  ​

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12/24/2019 1 Comment

Johnny's Christmas

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Silently a small figure sat shivering on the soft pine-covered earth tucked away from the wind in a grove of blue spruce.  His tear-filled eyes gazed out across a small meadow where remnants of snow from the last storm lingered. He opened his knapsack and took out the curved white candle and remembered the last words of his frail mother.  “Johnny, I love you so much.  I’m proud of you.  I want you to take this candle and keep it and remember—you are to be a light.  No matter what happens, you keep shining?  Promise?”  

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1/13/2008 0 Comments

Comforters

Winston Churchill said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."  Last week, the head of our food ministry terminated our operations.  Nine people lost their jobs and The Road Home lost its office and meeting place.  In one swift move, life took an unexpected detour! Why shut down a ministry which last year resulted in over 78 people putting their faith for the first time in Jesus, hundreds of families receiving food and free dental assistance plus prayer and encouragement?  Better yet, why treat a ministry like a business and let the fear of lawsuits trump eternal investments?  I felt like telling the owner, “When you die, you won’t stand before lawyers, you’ll stand before God, so lead accordingly!”  But he was acting according to what he felt was right.  He generously gave to help us move on.  Rather than protest, it was nobler to pray and seek God’s leading.

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9/21/2007 0 Comments

Heartmissing

​Part of me is lost and I don’t like it.  If I could skip this day in time or have never lived it I know I would be the worse for it but at least I would not sense this absence that came too fast and . . . heartrending and heartbreaking are too strong in meaning for what I’m feeling. Perhaps in this poignant period a more apt description is heartmissing.  The good news is she is only three and a half hours away.  The bad news is there are 206 miles between us. 

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9/8/2003 0 Comments

Observant

​In the early fall of 1976, homesick Panya Sawan walked the streets of Newberg, Oregon.  While his feet moved his mind questioned if he made a big mistake.  Yet, as much as he missed his family, the thought of returning to his Thailand home was equally painful.  Would his family consider him a failure?

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4/9/2001 0 Comments

Trouble

​Bad doctrine is like poisoned food.  It may taste good.  It may leave the stomach feeling full.  But in the end, it will cause indescribable agony.  Have you ever turned on your radio or television and heard a preacher promise you that if you will just put your trust in Jesus your troubles will leave you?  Perhaps, you’ve been reprimanded as lacking faith because you continue to struggle with issues.  Has anyone suggested to you that all you need to do is claim in Jesus’ name the solution you want and trouble will not visit you?  Okay, so why did Jesus say,“ I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world” (John 16:33)? Who was James writing when he penned, “Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises” (James 5:13a)? 

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12/14/1998 0 Comments

Loneliness

​We come to the time of year when Christians around the world celebrate the incredible birth of Christ. For many it is a time of giving gifts—a holiday ritual recognizing the second greatest gift of all time.  What manner of love for those of His image--yet deeply flawed, possessed God to send His Son to be conceived a baby?  What marvelous humility flowed from our omnipotent Lord that His Son should bypass the greatest of human protocols to be born in a smelly stable?  Like the wisemen who followed the star, we trace the life and ministry of Jesus, joyful that His holy journey liberated us from the dungeon of sin.  But there is so much more to His story, so much more to who He is.

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