Tag: Christian
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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…
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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…
Walking the path 