Do you ever experience situations where God presents you with opportunities (a.k.a., tests) in the areas of trust and faith and you feel that you fall short? I sure do! I sometimes allow anxiety, fear or frustration to take hold before looking to the Lord for guidance. Despite witnessing growth ...

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Isn’t that the $10,000 question for most believers? What is God’s will for my life? How do I discern what he wants me to do? What if I make the wrong decision? The what-if’s threaten to overwhelm us. For some, the struggle is primarily with the weightier choices in life ...

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Morning & Evening – Devotions by Charles Spurgeon (book published by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 1991) In a world that has experienced so much turbulence, especially these last few years, it’s easy to become discouraged even as believers. The ravages of the pandemic, political and social unrest, sky-high inflation and the dismal ...

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Positive home test January 1, 2023 – Happy New Year! I’ve been distracted over the holiday season and haven’t taken the time to blog recently. I guess I have plenty of time now to do so, as I’m holed up in my office/extra room convalescing with Covid-19. Yep, started feeling off ...

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Are you struggling to find purpose in your life? Yeah, me too! In all seriousness, this is an area – one of the many – that I do struggle with at times and have been as of late. Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing? Am I living my ...

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With November being recognized as National Adoption Month, I didn’t want to let the month slip by without recognizing it in a post. Adoption is near and dear to my heart for a couple reasons. The first reason: this guy Our adopted son a few days after his birth My son. No, ...

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An ordinary fall day at a county park near my home. Look at the richness of God’s creation. And He designed our eyes to see this beauty in living color! I’m certain that listing all the ways that come to mind of how I might see God in the ordinary would ...

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Pexels.com – Tom Fisk I picked up a new daily devotional – Morning & Evening – from Amazon in the spring. It’s a compilation of a couple different books by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) and is still in the original translation. The English language has changed considerably since the mid 1800’s. His ...

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Not sure about you, but I fell into the “fear of the dark” category as a kid. Nightlights made things bearable in the house, but I was really creeped out when I was outdoors. (Truth: I still am, to an extent, even in my late 50’s.) That’s the physical dark…and ...

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Standing on the promises that cannot fail.When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,By the living Word of God I shall prevail,Standing on the promises of God. For some reason this old hymn popped into my head during my morning devotions and I thought to myself, “Maybe I should fill ...

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