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July 1, 2012

Filling the Void

Yesterday a group from my church went to a local women’s shelter to cook and serve dinner for the residents. The facility, called Shepherd’s Door, provides more than just shelter for the women and children who live there. They provide life skills training, education, grief...

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June 30, 2012

No Condemnation in Christ

I’ve been reading through the Psalms in a book called The Psalms for Prayer. Each Psalm includes a short descriptive paragraph at the beginning, a suggested Bible passage to read, and suggestions for prayer focus interspersed throughout the Psalm. The other day I read Psalm...

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June 24, 2012

Grace Is Not New

Many characterize the Old Testament as a book of God’s wrath and the New Testament as a book of God’s grace. But as I read the whole of scripture, I find grace and wrath throughout. There is grace for the humble and wrath for the...

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June 23, 2012

How Will I Ever Be Blameless?

Almost three weeks ago I decided to start reading through the Psalms again. It started because I was having trouble staying focused during my morning prayer time and I thought reading a Psalm at the beginning of the prayer time would help me focus better....

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June 20, 2012

Pondering Charity

A couple of weeks ago I received this quote in my daily Quotemeal email from Heartlight.org: If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too...

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June 17, 2012

Our Heresy Detector: God’s Word

At church we are in the middle of a sermon series on “What We Believe.” This morning our pastor talked about how important it is to hold onto Jesus and what we believe about Him based on the teaching of the Bible. In the children’s...

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June 12, 2012

Confession – A Villanelle

Several months ago (or maybe longer) the Form for All lesson at dVerse Poets Pub was on the villanelle form. At the time is seemed too hard and so I didn’t try writing one. But my poetry knowledge and skill has come a long way since then....

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June 7, 2012

Light – A Poem

Pondering how thankful I am that Jesus is the true Light that shines into the darkness and shows me the way to life. Light The Light of life Piercing the darkness Illuminating truth Clearing away strife The Light of the world Displacing hopelessness Radiating pure...

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