How Tight is Your Grip?
“Be still and know that I am God” – Psalm 46:10 The command “be still” comes from the Hebrew phrase rapha, which means let go of your grip. Every Fall the trees teach us how...
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Being Present
BLESSING IN THE STORMI cannot claim to still the storm that has seized you,cannot calm the waves that wash through your soul,that break against your fierce and aching heart.But I will wade into these waters,will stand with you in this storm,will say...
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Changing Seasons
As seasons change up north, we in South Florida receive the birds who are escaping the cold. Eventually, there will be less humidity and slightly cooler temperatures, too. In the seasons of our lives...
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Perspective
On Wednesday, I led Chapel services for our preschool students ages 2-4. Sixty-four little ones were packed into the seats in the front section of Rudy Chapel. I taught My God is So Great with hand...
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Rest and Renewal
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to...
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God’s Beauty
God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 What is beauty? Most of...
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Cast Your Anxiety on Him
“Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you” 1 Peter 5:6-7 Most of the time dreams are just dreams. Dreams are our brains interpreting our feelings in a general sense, reflecting on...
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A New School Year
Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5;17 ESV As students, teachers, staff, and families prepare for the start of the school year, the normal excitement and nervous energy mounts. I encourage you to join in prayer with and...
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Done with Love
The phrase, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” is usually about how good intentions fail when inaction is present. When we treat love as a verb our intention of loving God...
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Good Works
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 You are God’s prized and beloved child. You are...
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