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In Memoriam: Lessons from My Father

My daddy was good man. His life was complicated on many levels, but he loved the simplicity of a rural life. He wasn’t perfect, but he was more than good enough for me. Even though he would never admit it, he was an amazing teacher in the lessons of life.  While I may not have taken those lessons and applied them well in my younger years, they took root and bore fruit in their own season.

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The Weapon of the Heart

Author’s Note: What began as a brief two sentence lament of the evils of a violent heart, has turned into a open letter pleading for the mercy of our Father. I have tried to be sensitive in the wake of the murders at Covenant Christian School in Nashville, TN. My heart and spirit aches for the families of those impacted by this horrific crime. Please remember the families of Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all aged nine, and Head of School Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61 as they grieve this terrible loss, a consequence of abject rejection of the grace and peace of God offered to the perpetrator of this violence

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Jonah Series

Jonah: The Repentant King

Humble leadership inspires humble followers, and God honors the humble who submit to His authority. In the same way that rebelliousness begets rebellion from the top down, so does repentance beget repentance when its starts at the top and trickles its way down to those who would follow.

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Jonah: A Prayer of Repentance

Salvation is not ours to give or to take. It is God’s and God’s alone. He alone has the power to save. We can’t save ourselves by the works of our hands, the power of our confession, or even our own faith. That is the exclusive domain of the sovereign Lord Almighty. He alone has the authority to save us. He alone has the authority to condemn. He alone is righteous and holy. Thus He alone is worthy of our worship and worthy to be praised.

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Jonah: In Over His Head

Inevitably, any time you willingly hide from God in the midst of your self-induced circumstances, you will find yourself in over your head. There is no hiding from the One who can see deep into the recesses of your heart and mind. The Father will always pursue His wayward child in an effort to get his attention, but He will not force His will upon us. However, He will allow the consequences of your sin to exact its payment in kind. And sometimes, even in the midst of your rebellion, God will still get the attention of those observing from the sidelines.

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A New Creation Series

A New Creation

The overarching theme of the Scriptures is that God creates, He redeems, and He recreates. God creates that which He loves and He blesses that which He loves. He redeems that which He loves. And He recreates that which He redeems.

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A New Creation: Preparation

In the process of recreating you into the image of His Son, He will illuminate the darkness that has kept you blind to the truth of who you were created to be, set you a foundation upon which to build your new life, and begin preparing you for what He has in store by transforming your heart and mind through the power of the Holy Spirit living in you.

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A New Creation: Relaxation

The Sabbath was a gift to man – a gift of prescription and a gift of perception. Prescription because it is designed as a day to rest from your labor, just as God rested and paused from His labors in creation. Perception because it gives man a chance to come into the presence of the Savior and Lord of Creation with boldness and conviction and humility, honoring Him for all that He has done, is doing, and will do in our lives and in eternity.

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