You Opened up my Eyes

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You Opened up my Eyes

“You Opened up my Eyes, for the First Time I saw you”
from “God be Praised” by David and Alena Moore, Gateway Worship

How, you ask, did a rationally minded sixteen year-old atheist male, receive life and become born again in an instant? Read more…

Getting There…

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Getting There…

“I’ve tried and tried to change, I think I am stuck.”

As odd as it sounds these words give me a certain amount of excitement when I hear them. Read more…

Fighting for Air

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Fighting for Air

I tried to think differently, but it was HARD!!
I have had a difficult time writing new stuff the last two months. This was not a writer’s block that randomly descended upon my soul, it was the result of poor planning on my part.  Read more…

Organizing Your Life

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Organizing Your Life

Jesus made this all-important statement in His very first sermon. “Seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Read more…

Thinking Like a Child…some more

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Thinking Like a Child…some more

In the early years of our marriage we took our children to Michigan where my brother-in-law took us water-skiing.  Without much thought to my kids in the boat, I took a few pretty lame turns around the lake. Read more…

Thinking Like a Child…Again

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Thinking Like a Child…Again

Last night I watched a baby crawl across the dining room floor.  Behind her was her two year old sister.  Behind her was my friend, Mary.  I am not going to tell you Mary’s age, but let’s just say she is my age, whatever that might be. Read more…

Thinking Like a Child!

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Thinking Like a Child!

“When I was on chemo, and all those other medications, I realized I had lost my curiosity,” he said.

Mark sat across the patio table from me, as I sipped my coffee in the cool of this Michigan morning.  Read more…

Father of the Bride

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Father of the Bride

I am standing in the grass in the beautifully groomed yard, with my daughter next to me wearing the dress of her dreams and tugging my arm eagerly.  She is twenty, and she is five. She is a woman, and she is a girl. Read more…

It’s Happened Twice Now

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It’s Happened Twice Now

It’s happened to me twice now.  The first time was a disaster, the second was a celebration.  Both times, God showed me something amazing. Read more…

You’re not very Religious are you?

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You’re not very Religious are you?

“You’re not very religious, how did you end up that way?” he asked over a cheeseburger in Hong Kong.  It is a fascinating question to me, and partly because it means so many different things to so many different people. Read more…