Tag: Christian
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Children
(2-minute read) Before our first child was born, I would not have known what to say if anyone had asked why I wanted children. It never seemed to be the right time financially, and I didn’t know if I could be a good father. When our first child, Debi, was born, everything changed the first…
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I’m Not Alone
(5-minute read) It’s back, and it’s getting worse. Fifteen years ago, I started getting sick, but the doctors, there were a lot of them, couldn’t figure out what was wrong. In May 2011, a doctor told me part of my brain, called the hypothalamus, was failing and there was nothing they could do. He said…
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Conscience
(3-minute read) My introduction to understanding my conscience did not go well. I think I was three years old, and my mother was upset about something I had done. I don’t remember what I did, but in my defense, I remember saying, “You never told me not to do that.” My mother replied, “But you…
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Good Death
(2-minute read) We used to have a dog that absolutely hated to take a bath. In one house where we lived, we had a walk-in shower with a door. I was taking her in to bathe her in the shower, and when she saw the door open, she had put two feet on one side…
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The Game
(3-minute read) Once a month, we have a celebration at our house for a dozen or so family and friends who have had a birthday that month. After lunch, there is the traditional singing of Happy Birthday, in which everyone sings to their own tune using their own words for a couple of minutes of…
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The Conversation
(3-minute read) I am constantly praying to ask the Lord to lead me and draw me closer to him. When he starts the conversation, I very often think that the words are produced by my mind and ignore them. Since I continue asking for the Lord’s help, he usually continues the conversation by sending events.…
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Self-Deception
(7-minute read) The most difficult deception for me to detect is self-deception. In 1970, after only about a year of studying spiritual things, I felt the Lord wanted me to buy a reel-to-reel tape recorder, but I didn’t know why. I had never owned one and knew nothing about them. A man in our Bible…
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Genuine
(2-minute read) I discovered early in my work career that I needed to motivate myself. Often, I would decide something I wanted to do differently but just get caught up in the day’s routine and forget about the change I wanted to make. I started writing little notes and leaving them for myself. I’ve discovered…
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For Him
When she is alone, my wife loves to dance before the Lord as a type of worship. She’s had no formal training and would not sell many tickets in our natural world. In the world that really matters, the Kingdom of God, which is far greater and more expansive than we can even dream of…
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Obedience
(3-minute read) I asked God, “Lord, how much obedience do you want?” It took a while, but when the answer came, it was more involved than just complete, absolute, and total. When I was a kid, my father expected obedience. In his case, it was complete, absolute, and total obedience. But it only covered what…
Walking the path 