Even though God has gifted each and every one of us and expects us to use those gifts for the good of His people and His kingdom, we have a bottomless well of excuses for every failure in our lives. I can say it is because I got rejected, or they didn’t understand what I…

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I have been reading some of my earlier Lenten posts and one from March 30, 2007 caught my eye. The title is Making Memories With God. The post is about how memories make people important in our lives. There are numerous things that build memories and make people significant. It is probably why guys bond…

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This year’s Lenten observance is approaching its conclusion. I can say without reservation, this has been a Lent like no other. There are many reasons. You can cite the so-called pandemic, the world-wide lockdowns due to COVID that generated widespread fear, the governmental over-reach that in the U.S. violated both states’ constitutions as well as…

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Sometimes life looks like it is out of control and the more under the surface of things you look the more out of control it appears to be. Now some people can look at that and not realize the obvious, which is things are never what they seem on the surface. When you look at…

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Coming up on two weeks until Easter tomorrow. My birthday follows 3 days later. Easter was last on my birthday in 2012 and won’t be again until 2091 so I think I can safely say  have seen the last Easter birthday. It was exceptionally special to observe my birthday on the day we celebrate the…

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One of the hardest things I have to learn to accept as I grew in my Christian life was that in order to change from the old man I used to be to the new man I want to be, things have to be broken. It seems to be that way in everything. We have…

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Interestingly enough, I read through a number of my previous Lenten journey postings and this one stood out to me – https://beyondtherim.meisheid.com/lent-06-day-20/. At its heart it is about God’s sovereignty, but it is also about a human failing we all have that has been overfed us by the video gaming industry and that is the…

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One thing that the pandemic has brought to fore is how many hopeless people there are out there, who are primarily driven by their fear of dying. Up until the lockdowns started most people had kept that fear hidden away, locked in some dark corner of their life. But then, thanks but no thanks to…

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I am tired. With the time change, Spring forward, I haven’t adjusted yet and am getting to sleep too late and getting up too early. Such are the minor travails of life, and believe me, this is minor. When we are tired, everything starts slipping: we aren’t as crisp at anything we do and our…

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I got to thinking today about the still small voice or gentle whisper that scripture ascribes to how God usually speaks to us. He spoke to Elijah that way in 1 Kings 19:12-13. But consider this, how can you hear such a quiet thing unless you quiet the cacophony around you and stop talking yourself?…

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