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8/28/2021 0 Comments

Withering

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The Hebrew word navel, basically means wither or lose heart. It is used twenty times in the Old Testament. The word describes Moses in Exodus 18:18—warned about wearing out from trying to judge the people alone. Eleven times it refers to plants dying. Isaiah uses it to show people withering from sin (Isaiah 64:6). When you think of the condition of the world right now does it feel like it is withering? Such a thought should not be surprising for God warned us that this would happen. 

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7/29/2021 1 Comment

Nebulous

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I have a theory for which I would love to get your feedback. Earth’s inhabitants all spoke the same language when they were created.  That ability to easily communicate fed their pride and they decided not to spread over the earth in obedience to God’s command (Genesis 1:28). They preferred to build a prodigious city with a colossal tower where they could make a name for themselves or, in essence, do whatever they felt like doing (Gen. 11:1-4). Because of their pride and idolatrous hearts God came down to their city, called Babylon, and decisively acted.

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4/14/2021 1 Comment

Degraded

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When the leaders of the military set as their highest priority rooting out right-wing extremists and ensuring transgender Americans can serve in the force we can be sure that our readiness is woefully compromised. Who feeds the Commander-in-Chief his information? If it is people from the Palm Center the United States is in big trouble. This organization focuses its attention on America’s LBGT population and they say focusing on transgender issues is an urgent priority for military readiness.[1]  Supposedly “recruitment, reputation, retention, unit cohesion, morale, medical care, and good order and discipline” are compromised by banning transgender Americans from serving.  But they do not back up their statements with evidence outside their small population group. As someone who served in the military for 36 years I can tell you from my experience that their findings are absurd.

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1/14/2021 0 Comments

Spiritual Warfare

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The first evidence of physical battle dates sometime between 4000 and 3500 B.C. from the ancient city of Hamoukar located in modern northeastern Syria.  Historians believe the Uruks of southern Mesopotamia invaded the region.[1]Battles around the world have been fought for a long time and their spreading evil caused God regret for even creating man (Genesis 6:6). 
 



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7/18/2020 1 Comment

Self-Dependent

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Isaiah 22:10,11--You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall.  You made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.

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4/16/2020 1 Comment

How Will You Finish?

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​“The older man continued. ‘It has been my observation that just one out of ten who start out in full-time service for the Lord at twenty-one are still on track by the age of sixty-five’ . . . What makes you think that you will be the one man out of ten who finishes strong?”[1]

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3/26/2019 0 Comments

Frustration

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Have you ever been frustrated by something that should work and doesn’t? For the last several months I’ve had a rotten time trying to charge my phone.  I purchased several charging cords but the connection always seemed to be an issue to the point where many times I would have to hold the phone and firmly push the cord to get a steady charge.  I was just about to take the phone into the store and replace it when I had an idea.  Taking a pin I probed the cavity where the cord connected and immediately all kinds of dirt and matted hair began to come loose.  Honestly, I felt pretty foolish—no wonder the phone was not properly charging—it was plugged up with debris.  


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5/14/2017 0 Comments

Willpower

Joe works hard at work and by the time he gets home he is exhausted.  Too often he is impatient with his children and snaps at his wife. When he loses his temper and yells at her it is not because he wants to be a jerk or to act in such an unloving manner. The fact is his willpower is nearly sapped.  Unfortunately, because of this, he is also insensitive to the fact that his wife, Alice, is also exhausted from watching high-energy children and operating at the tail end of being sick.  Her willpower and ability to understand his feelings is also at a low end. 

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9/13/2014

By the Spirit

​Addicere has serious problems.  She is obsessed with pornography and she dares not take even a sip of alcohol or she will soon be drunk.  This young woman is amazingly talented and comes from a home with loving parents who raised her with strong moral values.  Yet despite their good example, their daughter is on a road that will end in tragedy if she does not come to a crucial spiritual understanding.

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7/12/2014

This Too Shall Pass

Teesha* was my waitress as I ate at Barrio Cafe in the Phoenix Airport while waiting for my flight to El Paso.  As she refilled my lemonade I noticed a tattoo on her neck, “this too shall pass.” When she brought me my bill I asked her if she would tell me the story behind those four words.  She immediately shared that she had a rare blood disorder and had almost died on numerous occasions.  While wiping her forehead in the hospital, her mother would often say to her, “This too shall pass.”  
 

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6/3/2012 0 Comments

Cheyenne Disaster

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Romans 13:14—But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.
 

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1/7/2011 0 Comments

Lingered

​In Genesis 19, we read one of the saddest stories in the Bible.  Evidently, the behavior of the valley inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah was so awful that the Lord with two angels came down to investigate. Fearfully, Abraham asked Him if He would spare Sodom if He found just ten righteous people there.  He was concerned because his nephew Lot lived in the city.  The Lord replied, “for the sake of ten I will not destroy it” (18:32).  

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12/5/2010 0 Comments

Infatuation

​Jamaal and Hannah spend hours each day playing video games.  Their mother Roxanne*, says it is “okay”—at least they are not doing drugs or out on the street involved with the wrong crowd.  Today we have Jamaals and Hannahs in their mid-thirties who devote hours each day to gaming.  Their spiritual lives are mediocre and their contribution to advancing heaven’s agenda is abysmal.  Their parents let them feed their infatuations when they were younger so long as the obsession was “harmless.”  But there is no such thing as a harmless infatuation.  

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4/15/2010 0 Comments

Willing

​I had the privilege for several weeks of working with four Army generals.  In discussing the importance of a good reputation, several of them shared why it was vital to avoid any appearance of impropriety.  Their conduct was measured not just by standards but also the perception of those standards.  Aside from their own moral and spiritual convictions what they were willing to do or not do was tied directly to the people they served. I was encouraged that powerful men modeled integrity with humility.

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1/25/2010 0 Comments

Holiness II

​I apologize in advance for this illustration but I am not trying to be crude in making a crucial point.  Each night I walk our two dogs, Hero the Labrador retriever and Saber the Sheltie. When the three of us walk, Saber has a habit that is extremely annoying.  If he comes across what I suspect is dung from another animal (I’m guessing raccoon), before I can stop him, he literally does an in-the-air rollover dive into the mess and slides his chest and back all over it!  Now I’m mad because I have to clean him (a difficult task with his thick and long hair) and he stinks.  Furthermore, can you imagine what people would think of me as an owner if they came upon Saber in such a disgusting condition?

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11/30/2009 0 Comments

Self-Centered

I make it a habit to read the Bible daily because I want to grow in my relationship with God and I need the wisdom His word gives to help me live in a God-pleasing manner. Sometimes Scripture jumps from the pages and slaps me.  Such was the case recently when reflecting on 1 John 1:3,4.   
This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.  The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” without keeping His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”  
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10/20/2009 0 Comments

Promiscuous

​One of the reasons I love to study the Bible is the amazing way God speaks to the times in which we live.  Read what the prophet Hosea wrote to his countrymen sometime between 755 and 722 B.C. and see if his words speak to your nation.

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12/13/2008 0 Comments

Humanism

​If ever there was a need for prayer, it will be for a man named Obama.  He inherits a nation at war with a stressed out economy.  He will pilot a land divided in opinion in the midst of a world looking for a messiah. He will render senior leadership in a most complicated government with junior experience and little room for failure. He will face a press that is woeful in gathering all the facts and enemies that would love to see this nation destroyed.  He will need wisdom from above in a culture that increasingly follows an ethical theory and practice “that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.”* 

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5/28/2008 0 Comments

Drifting

​When we navigate with a compass if we don’t keep on line with the precise azimuth, we get off course.  Just walking across uneven land, over hills and through brush will change our direction and can easily cause us to get lost.  I remember as a child in Japan, descending from the top of Mt. Fuji with two other boys.  We left the sure circular path to take a short cut.  But coming down the steep slope, we walked at an angle and ended up far away from our intended destination, lost and separated from the rest of our group.  

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1/28/2006 0 Comments

Striving

​When Nancy was thirteen years old she was diagnosed with a disease in her heart, osteoporosis, and the verdict that she would never bear children.  She and her mother bargained with God.  They would pray wherever they were every day for two months at six a.m. and six p.m. if He would heal her.  At home they had no food and life was miserable.  One day several Costa Ricans came to her Nicaraguan church.  While the visiting pastor spoke with Nancy’s mom, his wife spoke with Nancy. On a Friday afternoon she told her that she would receive everything back in double for her faithfulness.  On Monday when the doctors examined her, she was completely healed. Though He did not have too, God in His mercy, blessed the young girl.  

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