Tag Archives: Fear

The Master’s Lock

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in His steps. – 1 Peter 2:21   For several years, I worked as the athletic director of a K-8 school.  The … Continue reading

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A Beautiful Mess

Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.  Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish.  Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. – … Continue reading

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Remodeled

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until … Continue reading

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Forgiveness

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17   In the movie Invictus, Morgan Freeman portrays former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner … Continue reading

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Convicted

By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. – Psalm 42:8   Most of the country has experienced at least a piece of the bad weather … Continue reading

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Out of the Dark

Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.  The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.  I have come into the world … Continue reading

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Running

One of the unique things about the movie Forrest Gump is the way the movie divides itself up into chapters of his life.  You have childhood, college, military service, ping pong, and shrimp boat captain, just to name a few.  … Continue reading

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Healing Begins

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. – Psalm 147:3   Life is filled with paradoxes.  This is evident in emergency situations.  Here are two simple rules you’ve heard before.  When lost, we should stay put.  When drowning, … Continue reading

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Rise to Glory

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: [points at the flag bearer] If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry on? [Thomas steps forward] Cpl. Thomas Searles: I will. Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I’ll see you in the fort, … Continue reading

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Good to Go

The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he … Continue reading

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