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No Blog Posts for August 2020 - Taking a Break

30 Outwitting the Enemy

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This week the Lord got through to me and I heard his voice. It’s a shame when we hide from him, neglect him, and fear his presence, when all he wants to do is encourage us. I’m going to try to keep this short, but there is so much you can share when God speaks to you.

29 Is Anyone Listening?

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I’m a few days late on this week’s post. I think it’s because I have lost interest in words upon words. I spend my day thinking about words, I study words, I listen to words. After a while much of these words lose their meaning.

In a world of words, it’s hard when you no longer define the meaning of words with outcomes. …

28 Losing Our Focus

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As churches age they seem to lose their eyesight in much the same way that we do when we age physically. I remember the first time I felt that my eyes weren’t as good as they were. I was under a car working on it and I couldn’t get my head far enough away to see the bolts.

27 Rethinking Things

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I didn’t post a blog last Monday, so we are skipping to number 27. I had a lot going on, but I was also considering discontinuing posting these each week. I don’t really know if anyone actually reads them. I’ve had no response at all to the last 25 posts. …

25 Sometimes It Feels Right

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I do a lot of introspection, which borders on self-condemnation. I’ve been ridiculed for it and I’ve been chastised for it. However, sometimes it just feels right. You can never be so sure of yourself that you omit the introspection process from time to time.

24 Man Week Activities

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We are in the midst of Man Week here at Calvary. Every year we take the week before Father’s Day and provide several fellowship opportunities for our men, their sons and friends, and their guests from around the community. Monday night we started out with the annual Pastor’s Patio Picnic in the front yard of our parsonage. …

23 A Sea of Voices

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It seems today that everyone around you is demanding that you take a stand on various human rights issues, or race issues, or poverty issues, or governmental issues in general. Like the book of Ecclesiastes states:

9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;

22 Give It All

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Last week I wrote about how we so many times ask God to prove himself. Yet, we seem to still doubt him with our lives and take things upon ourselves that we have asked him to do for us. Have you ever had that person who asked you to do something for them then constantly stands over you inspecting every step you take? …

21 Catch the Wind

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God is amazing, but it surprises me how often he has to prove himself to us. In my years at Calvary I have seen powerful confirmations of his protection and provision for us as a church. Yet, we constantly deal with those who become discouraged and think we are not going to make it.

20 The Rebuilding Process

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I am sure there are many people who have been or are currently where I am. Where is that? It’s knowing you are not going to get done all you planned to do in this lifetime. Some people call it a midlife crisis. Some people just slip quietly into depression. …

19 All At Once

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I heard it once said that time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once. However, this week has felt like a time warp because so much has happened. I guess many people feel that way when their car breaks down. Early Tuesday morning our van quit and I spent several hours diagnosing an intermittent alternator problem. …

18 May The 4th Be With You

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Since Star Wars came out everyone has had a tongue-in-cheek expression for the 4th of May. Even Christians poke fun at it as the “force” being the Holy Spirit which lives inside of us.

Also, it seems to me that there is almost always some event or holiday attached to the days of the month and the weeks of the year. …

17 A Month of Sundays

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Everyone is talking about what the “new” normal will look like as we return to our lives and states begin trying to restart their economies. The more I look at life, history, and government the more I realize, none of us actually know what we are doing. …

16 A Pure Heart

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It may be a quick and direct blog post today. It’s a day late and there are so many things on my mind and my agenda that much of what I would say today would just be rambling. On that note, I want to focus on just one topic—my personal relationship with the Lord with as little rambling as possible.

15 To Serve or Be Served

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Easter has passed as quickly as it came. I know many of us made the most of it and it was amazing to see the creativity in the body of Christ from their posts online. However, as I have stated in the past, it just doesn’t cut it for me. There is nothing like when the church comes together to worship God and bask in the presence of his manifested Holy Spirit. …


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