Do You Like to Laugh?
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Do You Like to Laugh?

But no matter how bad my jokes are, I still like to laugh and I’m very convinced that it’s good to laugh!

I’ve been thinking about this from what I’ve been reading in the Bible lately where God tells Abraham that he’s going to be a dad at a really old age in his life…

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Managing Expectations
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Managing Expectations

What do you expect from God? Do you think that if you obey God’s directives in your life that you will live a struggle free life? There are a lot of times when we read the Bible, we pray, extend our faith, trust God and hope that our efforts and obedience to God will facilitate a life of greater ease and less struggle…

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Snips and Quips for Practical Living
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Snips and Quips for Practical Living

Over the course of some recent months, I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy reading and discussing the book of Proverbs.  My discussions have been with various people in my church, folk who have a wide array of life experiences, diverse ages, different religious perspectives and political persuasions.  It’s both interesting and comforting to me that Proverbs has wisdom for all of us, no matter our age, experiences and points of view…

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The Difficult People
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The Difficult People

All of us have pockets and gaggles of people who are rankling to us.  I think that we often focus on such people, complaining about what makes them distasteful to us, but we can easily neglect to look into our souls to ask why such types of people bring out our cranky side…

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What Are Your Routines?
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What Are Your Routines?

There’s much to be said for routine – doing things daily to have desirable results over a long period of time. There are plenty of examples in the Bible of people being steady with daily disciplines that facilitated long-term, desirable results…

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Extravagant or Cranky
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Extravagant or Cranky

Do you pause to think about your reactions, words and decisions?  Sometimes I go back through an experience or conversation and think about how I felt, what I said and how I behaved because I want to consider if I’d do or say things differently…

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The Basics
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The Basics

I also know that we can feel and be under tremendous stress in our daily living and we need divine help to keep the proverbial, “wheels on the bus.” 

What could such divine help look like?…

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Why Do You Read Your Bible?
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Why Do You Read Your Bible?

Over the course of my life, I've read the Bible for loads of different reasons. In my childhood, growing up as a pastor's kid, I was often told that I should read my Bible. Consequently, I read the Bible for many years because I should, and that motivation worked for a little bit…

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Unmet Expectations
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Unmet Expectations

I’m bringing this to your attention because there’s a family in the Gospels who were disappointed with Jesus and the painful reality that He didn’t meet their expectations. I’m referring to John 11…

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