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Ecclesiastes
My afternoon watch (the portions of scripture that I read post-lunch) has had me in the book of Ecclesiastes the past couple of days. In my afternoon watch, Ecclesiastes gets read about every four weeks. In other words, I’ve read … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheerios, Dillards, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Goodwill, Jesus, Macy's, Matthew 22:37-39, Saks, Savers, Solomon, Toasted Oats, wisdom
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Joplin +6 Weeks
This evening we took a few minutes and toured some of devastation from the tornado that ripped through Joplin on 22 May 2011. I can sum it all up in one word: sobering. Simply sobering. As we drove through the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Jesus, Life Lessons, Prayer, thoughts
Tagged 22 May 2011, boat, faith, Jesus, Joplin, prayer, St. John Hospital, storms, tornado
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The Student Becomes The Teacher
So, mdsimants is bach-ing it this week while sksimants leads a mission trip. It’s just me and the rugrats. Me. In charge. Uh oh. The best way that I can describe this transition is: sksimants=George W. Bush mdsimants=Barack Obama eksimants/cesimants=Glenn … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Lessons, Prayer
Tagged Asbury Youth, cesimants, Christ-Follower, devotion, devotional, eksimants, life lesson, prayer, sksimants
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Riding Along
I hate to be a rider in a car. I much prefer to drive. We were in San Juan, Puerto Rico about four years ago. We were in a taxicab. Our driver had one arm and one leg. Seriously. One … Continue reading
Posted in Journey, Life Lessons, Prayer
Tagged devotion, devotional, Fear of YHWH, life lesson
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Step out on Faith and get Attacked
Thats the way it works. When you take a step of faith toward doing Kingdom work, Satan will attack. Yesterday at about 4:45pm, we made a major Kingdom step of faith. By 6:15pm, eksimants was complaining of a headache. By … Continue reading
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Discipleship, Justice, and a Death
Still trying to process thoughts from the Bin Laden news. I’m quite sure that gloating is not the right direction to go. And I’m pretty sure that even celebration is not the right direction. It would seem to me that … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Life Lessons, Prayer, thoughts
Tagged Bin Laden, Christ-Follower, Discipleship, Justice
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Three More Lessons From Job
If you’ve hung around me for more than about five minutes, then you know that I love the Book of Job. For some reason, God has used this book to deliver numerous kingdom truths (here and here) to me over the past … Continue reading
SO, I WENT TO THIS BASKETBALL GAME….
…and instead received an object lesson in being a Christ-Follower. The church in which we serve sponsors a 9th/10th Grade and an 11th/12th Grade Boys Basketball team. Tonight was a playoff game for our 9th/10th Graders. I learned upon arrival … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Jesus, Journey, Life Lessons, Youth
Tagged Asbury UMC, Asbury Youth, Christ-Follower, devotion, devotional, Jesus, life lesson
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Guest Post From eksimants
A guest post from eksimants. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Guest Post, Jesus, Journey, Life Lessons, Missions
Tagged Christ-Follower, devotion, devotional, eksimants, Jesus, life lesson
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Job, meet David. David, meet the Disciples. Disciples, meet John Wesley.
What do Job, David, Disciples, and John Wesley have in common? Continue reading
Posted in Church, Jesus, Journey, Life Lessons
Tagged Christ-Follower, devotion, devotional, Jesus, life lesson, prayer, theology, worship
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