Tag: Christian
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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…
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Baby Bird
(2-minute read) Only the baby bird is fed in the nest. All the rest must leave the nest and search for the provision. I was 25 years old when I had a salvation experience with the Lord. I knew a few Bible stories, but other than that, I really didn’t know anything. I knew the…
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Dreams
(3-minute read) Where do my dreams come from? I don’t mean the ones when I’m sleeping but the dreams I have when I’m wide awake. After my sophomore year of high school, I asked my parents if I could attend art school during the summer break. There was something about art that always drew me.…
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Permission to be Wonderful
(4-minute read) When I was in high school, my parents got a call from the school wanting to see them. They insisted that my mother and father attend the meeting and that I should not attend. I took that as a bad sign. When my parents returned home, my father came to my room and…
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Captive
(6-minute read) I attended an elementary school in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, when I was eight. After school, I would take a city bus back to my neighborhood. One day on the bus, a man started talking to me about the YMCA and everything to do there. He asked me if I wanted to go with…
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The Prayer Slump
(3-minute read) There was a time when I felt that my prayers were less effective than they used to be. I wasn’t sure what had changed or how I had possibly gotten off. I decided to return to the beginning, and one day I asked the Lord, “Lord, teach me to pray.” The first instruction…
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Laugh and Believe
(3 minute read) “Don’t drop that mirror; we can’t afford seven years of bad luck,” my mother said as she laughed. As a child, I learned that there was a long list of things that some people thought brought bad luck. My mother would point them out, and then we would laugh as if it…
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Being Changed
(3-minute read) Before getting married, I spent my days at work and nights in bars. After I got married, everything was different. My boss came over to our house one night after we had been married for over six months and asked if we had any beer. I said I thought so. I went to…
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Unwanted Thoughts
(2-minute read) Sometimes, I’m surprised by selfish thoughts that go through my mind, and I’ll say to myself, “I don’t want to think that.” I used to always blame the devil, but it wasn’t until I had to deal with my own emotional crisis that I realized that most unwanted thoughts don’t come from the…
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Desire a Miracle
(2-minute read) “Lord, would you let me see a miracle that would take away my doubts?” At the time, I was 24 years old, and I had recently had a salvation experience with God. It seemed reasonable; God wanted me to believe without doubting. It took me years to understand why he didn’t do that…
Walking the path 