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God Can Use Kids Too

A few things have converged in my son Jack’s life over the past couple months. Back in the spring, he and I began reading Take Your Best Shot by then-nine-year-old author Austin Gutwein.  It is the story of a boy who decided he didn’t want to wait until he was all grown up to do something big for God. Jack decided he wanted to attend a Christian...

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Change in a Changing World
Change in a Changing World

Change is an inevitable part of life. We cannot stop change but we can decide how we will react to it. And how we react can make or break us. There is a race held each year in Australia that is 600 miles long. The runners run for 18 hours, sleep for 6 hours and then get up and run for another 18 hours. Several years ago, one of the competitors...

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Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?

There must be a thousand clichés about finding direction. If you do a Google search you’ll find everything from the classic “follow your bliss”, to the iconic but less helpful “wherever you go, there you are”.   “Follow your bliss” is excellent advice, if you happen to know what your bliss is.  No wonder so many of us are confused...

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Hormones and Harried Emotions
Hormones and Harried Emotions

"I can't help how I respond when my hormones are out of whack. (It's understandable to act like a shrew at certain times.) If we accept the lie that we can't control our emotions, we will also believe we can't control how we act when we are feeling emotionally vulnerable or out of control. Not only are we to quick to believe our feelings, we are...

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Trusting God Through the Seasons of Your Life
Trusting God Through the Seasons of Your Life

I dashed into a grocery store to pick up a few things, and it hit me. As I saw the shelves, newly stocked with school supplies, I realized with a start that this was the first fall in 20 years that I would not be buying school supplies! What a great thought! I should have done cartwheels right there in the aisle! But the thoughts that tumbled around...

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