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“Your testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.” – Psalm 119:24
On a shelf in my home office, there is a brass clock engraved with the words “Volunteer of the Year, 1998.” I received the clock for serving as a hospice chaplain with the Visiting Nurse Association of Wisconsin. I attended
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When we experience extreme suffering, we have many needs, both physical and spiritual. But our deepest need is to find rest and security in the One who created us in His image and redeems us in Jesus. He alone knows
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When life is painful, God invites us to talk to Him about it. He wants us to cry out to him in humility–to talk to him about what hurts–that we might grow in our childlike trust in Him and His
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Here’s another recommended Resource List as you minister grace and truth. There are many more list links in the right-hand margin of this homepage. BOOKS & MINIBOOKS BLOG POSTS Print this entry
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In the past few months, I read Jack Miller’s book, The Heart of a Servant Leader, and was blessed. The book is a collection of personal letters written to coworkers in ministry, as well as individuals who needed biblical, pastoral
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One of the blessings of being a pastor is the opportunity to be part of a team of elders who visit church members in their homes for the purpose of ministering the Word and praying with them in times of
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My longing for a theological study that synthesizes the dual role of Christ as both the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God is satisfied in a new, immensely readable and thoroughly biblical book from Owen Strachan, Warrior Savior:
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My adult children all have three-lens cameras built into their phones. The multiple lenses enable them to zoom in on our grandbabies’ adorable faces, get a wide-angle view of an ocean sunset, and capture better images in low-light conditions. The
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The one true God speaks, and that is how the Bible opens. Immediately following its first words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” the phrase God said occurs eight times (Genesis 1:1-26). Clearly, the Holy Spirit
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On the first day of this year, I began reading through a new daily devotional that I purchased at a conference last fall. Refreshment for the Soul: A Year of Daily Readings from the ‘Heavenly Doctor’ contains brief readings drawn
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God is not like a department store Santa Claus asking through his white beard, “Have you been good this year?” – as though we need to qualify for the Christmas gift. Yet all too often that is how we think
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Hope + Help Podcast · Hope + Help for Christian Identity with Paul Tautges In this new podcast episode of the Hope + Help Podcast, host Christine Chappell and I discuss what it means to embrace our complete identity in
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How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? Psalm 13:1-2 Loss is
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How much of the anger in my home is caused by me? That’s a painful question. As parents, fathers in particular, we must heed God’s Word from Ephesians 6:4. Of course, this is not to say that all of our
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Earlier this week, I had the joy and privilege to be a guest on the Anchored Hope podcast. The topic on this episode of their This vs. That program was panic and fear. I hope our open discussion will be
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Inevitably, we all face the painful realities of life in this broken world. It might be illness, mistreatment, unjust circumstances, financial strain, or some other painful trial. When these things happen, it’s only natural to bristle at the situation. It’s
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For hundreds of years, Japanese artists have repaired valuable pottery by sealing the breaks with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The word for this tradition, kintsugi, comes from the Japanese kin (“gold”) and tsugi (“join”) and literally means “to
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Bethel Baptist Church will host a two-day Gospel-Shaped Parenting conference on November 17-18. The focus of my teaching will be on how to keep the gospel in focus while we train our children in humility, help them to see how
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
