Category: Daily Devotional

The Poison of Anger… Anger is one of those emotions that most “normal” people deal with properly. With so few “normal” people around it’s probably no wonder that most of us are unfamiliar with how to deal with anger in a healthy way. It is one of those emotions the enemy is well versed in using to his pleasure and our destruction. Anger can fester like an illness while eating away at our Spirit, wreaking havoc in our mind and hardening our heart. If we were to live, we had…

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Repentance and Redemption… Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. ~James 5:19-20 NKJV Once a person has made a decision to turn their life over to Jesus Christ is it done? What is the purpose of repentance? What role does repentance play in redemption? If a person is “redeemed” what does that mean? According to Merriam-Webster…

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Doing and Paying… When a person comes to realize there is but one hope in this world and that hope has a name, Jesus Christ, and the decision is made to turn their will and their life over to the care of God, as they understand God, there is no amount of money that can purchase this reality. It either is or it isn’t. When someone is looking to get sober and attends an AA meeting most people have no idea what to expect, what it’s about or what’s about…

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You Love Us Because You Are Good… You love us not because we are good, but because You are good. As you call me deeper still As you call me deeper still As you call me deeper still Into love, love, love You’re a Good, Good Father It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are And I’m loved by you ~Chris Tomlin Our Father is our Leader, He is our guiding Light and our Hope for the world. He will never let us down, as we…

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Who Heard the Word Believed… We are bombarded with information all day, everyday. We hear things all day long. The noise, at times, gets to be overwhelming. The quiet, the still small voice is easily drowned out. It is our responsibility to make time, to create space, to show respect to our Father, Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who walks with us everyday all day. Who is that speaks to us in the quiet? If we are given two ears and one mouth shouldn’t we be listening twice…

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Why Do We Listen… Why do we listen to the prince of the air when the Lord of all creation is chasing us down? Our Father, who created us, knows us before we are in our mothers womb allows us to turn away from Him so that we can fall flat, suffer and know what it means to be saved. Grace and mercy are fully realized  through pain and suffering. And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the…

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What I Hate, That I Do… There was a time when Monday through Friday the clock would strike 3:15pm and the internal “alarm” would sound, the clock would be reviewed to confirm the time and the mind would send signals to the heart – “only two hours to go”. The mind already knew that at 5:15pm the seat at the bar would be filled, along with the pint, and once again the evening would be filled with the same mental fight, the same mental argument and the same, the same,…

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God Died For You… We live in our own little fantasy world of make-believe where we see ourselves as something we are not. Some are lost in the slavery of social media while others are entangled in the slavery of TV or politics or sports or pornography or booze and the list goes on and on and on. The whole time God is right there with us. We tell ourselves we have “turned our back on God” and while that part is absolutely true, God did not turn His back…

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Cancel Culture… Some years ago being introduced to the name of Charles Colson had a profound effect on the time leading up to this moment. The Original Fake News was written on Easter Sunday after an amazing service at the church we were attending. Life would never be the same and that day the decision was made to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. On July 8, 2018, in a small church in Nashville, I was baptized in earnest. Here we are barely two years on and the depth of…

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The Darkness Around Me Is Just The Shadow of Your Wing** Resting in the peace and strength of our Father. Some days the mind just races and races and races. This is one of those days. The past several weeks have been challenging in several new ways with all new experiences. As there is a move forthcoming in just 16 days. There is a lot to consider, a lot then needs to be packed and lot to shuffle and relive. However, there is some incredible news, the way we have…

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