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Thoughts By Men

2024-12-16

The Power of Forgiveness

Are you someone who has suffered emotionally, and perhaps physically at the hands of others? Have emotions such as anger, resentment, hate, hostility, bitterness and revenge entered your heart and mind?

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2024-12-14

God is Holding Out on Me

God is holding out on me. I don’t think many of us would say it this way, but I think that this is the attitude of our heart sometimes.

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2024-12-13

Gift Exchange

Christmas Devotional about Jesus Exchanging his Life for Ours. Ephesians 3. The true gift exchange is what Christmas is all about.

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2024-12-12

People Pleasing – Falling Short of Expectations

A few years ago, in frustration, I finally gave up trying to please my father.  Being a people pleaser is, in itself, doomed to failure, anyway.

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2024-12-11

Regrets

Regrets, We've all had them and the older we get, the more they pile up. They are the regrets for the wrong decisions we have made.

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2024-12-10

The Christmas Test

God becoming human is the true message of Christmas. It is a cataclysmic event - a pivotal moment in the history of planet earth.

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2024-12-08

Christmas Abundance

I will never forget my first Christmas as a follower of Christ. I was thousands of miles from home, grieving my mother’s passing, battling my addictions, flat broke, and almost out of hope.

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2024-12-07

Refined by Fire

God is always at work in our lives. Even during seasons of adversity, He wants to accomplish something powerful and good. How should this knowledge affect our response?

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2024-12-06

Everyone Should Think about Divorce

“If I had known the impact our divorce would have on our lives and the lives of our children, extended family and friends I would have worked harder

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2024-12-05

The Gospel According To You

Some readers have wondered why I would quote the likes of Woody Allen and Rabbi Kushner, or make mention of Jimmy Buffet.

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2024-12-04

Are You a Branded Person?

Don’t accept the brands people place on you. Instead, live for God’s glory and be amazed by what Jesus will do in and through you!

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2024-12-03

The Effects of Fear

Fear obviously produces anxiety, but it also creates chaos in our lives and even affects those around us. Fear stifles our thinking and actions. What are you afraid of--loss, rejection, poverty, or death?

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2024-12-02

FLAG ON THE PLAY

As in the game of football, God throws flags on our plays in life. Which kind of heavenly flags are you drawing?

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2024-12-01

The Trap of Discouragement

Do you feel stuck in discouragement? Frustration that isn’t handled well may develop into depression. Living in discouragement will divide the mind.

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2024-11-30

Hear My Heart

An additional truth, incredible as it may seem, is God's personal nearness to us. He chooses to know us and be actively involved in the trials

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2024-11-28

America: Who is your GOD?

It is easy to get discouraged when we see our land slipping and sliding away from Judeo Christian values. The solutions are at the altar of Christ as we humbly submit to Him and dedicate our lives and our country to Him.

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2024-11-27

Be Thankful in All Circumstances

"When we express thanksgiving and gratitude to God, peace flooded our hearts, and He provided the solution. Always be thankful...especially in crisis. God can turn your tragedy to triumph, discord to harmony, and defeat to victory."

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2024-11-26

Thanksgiving and Prayer

Even when we are praying for help in the midst of deep distress and struggle, give thanks to the God who has sustained and will sustain us always!

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2024-11-25

Rejecting Passivity

Love is an action. God’s Love is active in us when we allow Him to work in and through us. T

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2024-11-24

Place of Struggle

This world is a place of struggle. Yes, we can live above the struggle for a while. But in the end, the struggle will find us.

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2024-11-23

REgeneration

REgeneration is not about reforming a life, but transforming it. REgeneration brings to the heart something that was never there before.

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2024-11-22

All Things New

Can an acorn become a rose? Can a whale fly like a bird?  Can lead become gold?  I don’t think so!

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2024-11-21

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Help me Lord, not to fall into temptation but always stay firm in Your teachings and Your Word.Help me to be a “promise focused" person, not allowing emotions or fear to overwhelm me, nor allowing circumstances to pull me down, ...

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2024-11-21

Broken Down

Whatever the causes, many and varied, that lead to broken down lives, God has one solution: his church and his people.  When we live in Christ-like compassion, God names us and makes us Repairers and Restorers

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