Lord, lead me on to higher ground!
20/1/2022
Lot chose to dwell in an 'eye-candy' valley, but its wicked shadow was soon to catch him out.
Category: Faith
He Leads Us On Paths We Did Not Know
18/1/2022
Christians are bed partners with faith. Their path is as unseen and unknown as glory is assured. And, the difficulty of the path does not deter their determination.
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God's Way For Me Is Always Best#
17/1/2022
From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
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The Valley of Sifting
11/1/2022
Sifting is always associated with a cleansing loss. It is a process ensuring that the end product is purer than the original one.
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The Journey of Grace Upon Earth
12/10/2021
Faith lives. Faith, like a muscle, grows by stretching. ~ A. W. Tozer It is a spiritual organism, much the same as physical organisms. Faith feels.
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16 Years with SoulSupply
22/8/2021
Cast your bread across the waters (Ecclesiastes 11:1a) . . . was SoulSupply's call to action in 2005. The above photo was SoulSupply's first branded image.
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Race as horses do!
10/8/2021
Let God be God. The Christ who rules us, rules all things for us. ~ Jim Packer The Lord of the Cross is the one and only God.
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Earth's Cry to Heaven
20/7/2021
Heaven is the country of the soul. ~ AugustineMen have accused other men of being too heavenly minded to be of any earthly use.
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The True Price of Resurrection
8/7/2021
Who is more likely to injure me, me or Jesus? The self-made man has no one to blame but himself. (Anon) Ourselves are the greatest snares to ourselves.
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3 Reasons why you can't contain God
13/6/2021
Mankind denies God, abuses God and even attempts to replace Him with a myriad of false gods - mere deceiving demons who are feeble pretenders to gain the worship that...
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Fear Ends Where Faith Begins ~ B#
8/6/2021
Fear is F. E. A. R – False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is the negative future that has not happened yet.
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Fear Ends Where Faith Begins ~ A#
5/6/2021
It is far too easy to find the reason to not do things, than to do things. There are two futures ahead for all of us.
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He's got the whole world in His hands!
16/5/2021
God works in ways no man can imagine. (BUT - we all really know that anyway.
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs!
24/4/2021
I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best, and who directs you in the way you should go.
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The NEW Christian TRUTH
18/4/2021
On April 3rd 2017 "Time" magazine devoted its red and black full cover page to merely three words, and no images: Is Truth Dead?Mankind is a nomad upon earth in the...
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Cling To This Letter
14/2/2021
The panoramic views of Babylon always entice . . . The nightly news of Babylon continually saddens . . .
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The Power Rolls Within You
14/9/2020
What lies behind us and lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.
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The Road Home is Clear
8/9/2020
Pursue righteousness, flee the love of money. Lay firm hold of the eternal, and jettison the temporal from the mind.
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Reaching for a Miracle?
10/8/2020
Impossibly dead, Lazarus lay in a cave and Jesus ached. . . Impossibly bleeding for twelve years a crushed woman dared to reach through a crowd to Jesus. .
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Ticket to Ride
30/7/2020
Planes, trains and automobiles can all carry a ticket to ride. The ticket gets you on the vehicle and off. It requires a payment.
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A Less-Used Therapy
28/7/2020
As with a labyrinth there exists a blind impossibility to not finding the right way out of life.
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Between A Rock and A Hard Place?
29/6/2020
Christians carry ever deepening hardship in this furious world. Weakness is further multiplied by the weariness of age.
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The Undoing of Scientists#
23/6/2020
We have sophisticated scientists today who make sober statements declaring that the whole universe was created by chance.
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11 Facts for the Future
16/6/2020
While the future is unseen, it needs not be unknown. Life is full of 'T' intersections. There is always a choice in life.
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When Gnats become Giants
14/5/2020
Jesus' disciples were having a rough time. This He still guarantees.
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When An Epitaph Failed
23/1/2020
A funny epitaph might read: Here lies fearsome Frank, he bet he could rob a bank.
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13 Tips to Flee Religion
23/6/2019
From the intercourse of daily religion and its sober observances I fear that the merciful things of faith have become too lost.
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The Daring of the Soul
20/6/2019
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. ~ anonReason finds the daring of faith outrageous.
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STAND FIRM - HOLD FAST!
18/6/2019
You have found Jesus to be true. This fact does not change.
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The Uplands of God#
13/3/2019
To be living at our faith's best is a difficult task. Many a christian may faint at this.
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A LIVING LESSON from the DEAD SEA#
18/11/2018
The Dead Sea has long been a place of fortune, legend and mystery. The Egyptians were wise to its properties in using its balms for mummification.
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The Real Trial of Faith#
8/11/2018
Faith ushers us into the right relationship with God. It gives Him more opportunity to work well in our lives.
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Fertilizing Tomorrow
6/11/2018
Would you rather live in the presence of God that seeks the miraculous than the weakness of faith that dismisses the miraculous? Jesus still teaches that the Father gives the Holy...
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Flying at Reason
22/10/2018
A man would be better to say there is no God than to say that God is unfaithful. ~ Thomas Brooks It is a madness.
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GREAT FAITH#
8/10/2018
When your life is built on the Rock, Jesus, storms will come but you will stand and not be defeated. God is a vindicator.
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When Me Isn't Me!
10/9/2018
Adam and Eve hid, and we have all used them as role models. (Brennan Manning) Adam and Eve hid from God in Eden after that first sin.
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What Do I Do When My Faith Is Silenced?
8/8/2018
If I listed everything the church could say ten years ago that she can’t say today—you would be horrified.
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The God of an Unseen Future
7/8/2018
We all live between the now and the not yet. A comprehended god is no god at all.
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5 Ways to Catch a Drifting Faith#
17/7/2018
You may have just victoriously gone through a great crisis, but now be alert about the things that may appear to be the least likely to tempt you.
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When There Was No faith
5/7/2018
Once upon a time (in pre-history) there was no faith. This time will arrive again soon, when the dwelling of God returns to be with men.
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Waited Long?
27/6/2018
Long have I wandered in God's word. His trails and tracks with its vistas and views always reach into my soul. Often my wandering opens my wondering.
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Sipping Coffee with the Pastor
19/6/2018
I recall the water's edge in a sheltered cove, a quiet backwater to a much larger basin that spilled into the ocean.
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The Testing of Faith
23/5/2018
Suffering confronts the benevolence of God. It is in our appalling darknesses that we mistrust the love He has shown us in our easy light.
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I Have Cast My Lot With Jesus
22/5/2018
I have cast my lot with Jesus I choose Him to navigate my calm or stormy seas I pray, I plead, my soul long wrestles with self-will Yet, I have cast my lot...
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Let Me feel Hope - Please?
19/4/2018
Too many, too long have lived at hell's doors. Visiting the vestibule of hell is surely a metaphor to living without hope. For, hell holds no hope.
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God's Journeymen
14/4/2018
Believers travel an unfamiliar path. They move as journeymen, competent but not masters in the ways of holiness. This path is trodden by gentle and steadfast people.
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Climb 'Till Your Dream Comes True
19/2/2018
Often your tasks will be many, And more than you think you can do. Often the road will be rugged And the hills insurmountable, too.
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Life as a Certifiable Nut
11/2/2018
Kindly many have advised me that I may well be a certifiable nut.
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A Soul Scaffold from the Desert ~ Depressed?
16/11/2017
Abba Euprepius (a fourth century A. D. desert monk) taught: knowing that God is mighty and faithful, have faith in Him and you shall share what is His.
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Sheer Lunacy
3/10/2017
The minds of men vainly attempt to sabotage the words of God. The truth remains, God's word is not subject to mankind's mind, either individually or collectively.
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To Play or to Fight?
25/9/2017
I want to play, but I can't. . . I can feel this but I can't see it. . .
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The Noise of the Battle#
19/9/2017
With a multiplying frequency Christians are assailed. The spirit of the antichrist gains momentum.
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Real Heroes Don't Wear Capes
13/8/2017
Spiritual heroes, who truly knows of them? Surely the greatest men of faith to this day choose to remain unknown? You too can become a spiritual hero.
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Feeling Safe
9/8/2017
Maybe you have marched through your rhythms of life behind the Lord's shield a long time? Has the Lord held your shield of faith, pulled you safely into its protection? Behind the...
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The Unmarked Trail
26/7/2017
Jesus has imprisoned my attention, my faith He has relentlessly stirred. Jesus has turned my misadventures into benefit, my losses into gain.
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2 Heroes & 10 Zeroes
3/7/2017
Circa 1500 B. C. the Israelites fled Egypt for the Promised Land, Canaan. The sons of Abraham were free, but their thoughts were not.
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Reaching the Cries of Your Heart
26/6/2017
What surges in your heart also runs deep. But this is of no mystery to our Lord.
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We Have Been Sold A Pup!
12/6/2017
Eight decades ago Francis Schaeffer argued: The concept that the final reality is energy which has existed forever in some form and takes its present form by chance has totally destructive...
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No Word from God Fails
29/5/2017
Moses parted the Red Sea and Joshua's priests parted the flooded Jordan. Elijah raised the dead, called down fire from heaven and changed the weather.
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The Ultimate Chart for Life?
26/5/2017
Persistent passions plague/wash/enhance/. . . . . (insert your chosen description) all lives. Sometimes they control us, but almost always they help us navigate each day.
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Fear Derailed
21/5/2017
Previously this bold teenager had rescued sheep from lions' mouths -- bear battles would not be any more troublesome.
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6 Thoughts I had @ 60
29/4/2017
In my 60th year, approaching the only birthday I have thought noteworthy - I reflected much (too much?).
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There Are Not Two Christs#
30/3/2017
A Christian's soul battles his heart. His soul suggests righteousness while his heart stresses indulgence. Hudson Taylor held tightly to his soul's suggestions.
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That Dark Side of the Dream
29/3/2017
Slavery in Egypt gave the Israelites a dream. They dreamt of Canaan but tripped in the desert.
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How to Measure the Impossible
27/3/2017
The wrestle with ambition. . . the visible inadequacy of supplies. . . or the fears of absent skills have long hindered the divine call landing upon human ears.
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There Is No Easy Space
13/1/2017
No easy space exists for those who would bear Christ's cross, surrender their will and audit their life in obedience to Him who was faithful unto death.
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Closing in on the Cliff of Fear?#
12/1/2017
Long gentle thuds drone up the ledges. Your boots kick, stones fall.
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5 Smooth Stones to fell your Goliath#
11/1/2017
Giants still menace every Christian life, those who choose to travel those rocky and thorn edged paths of faith.
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That Day to Trust
30/11/2016
When the day breaks as bleak as the night was lonely. . . When rest flees and health holds its hand. . .
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4 Steps in Reaching for a Miracle
17/11/2016
Impossibly dead Lazarus lay in a cave and Jesus ached. . . Impossibly bleeding for twelve years a crushed woman dared to reach through a crowd to Jesus. .
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Just Follow the Lord#
6/11/2016
The wise will unerringly pursue freedom - they just follow the Lord.
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The Substance of a Christian Man
5/10/2016
Don't drag the flag of God in the earth! Put it up and don't bring shame upon it! Set your face like a soldier to overcome.
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God Made Man Upright
27/9/2016
The Lord created the universe from His righteousness and for His righteousness. Righteousness is the foundation of His throne, His measuring line of behavior.
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How to Run with God's Words#
12/9/2016
Spoken words can program your spirit (heart) either to success or defeat. Words are containers. They carry faith, or fear, and they produce their kind.
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When You Can Jump No More
11/9/2016
King David penned the Psalms of eternity. He knew when life disappointed and he could jump no more.
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The Pilgrimage of the Heart
6/9/2016
A human heart is set to travel, adventure stirs the soul. My heart is set on a pilgrimage, my eyes are fixed to Zion.
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Making a Money Sandwich
21/8/2016
Wealth sits in God's unlocked vault. We all will live very, very well, a rich life when each day is sandwiched between these two verses: . . .
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The Hose of Desire
27/7/2016
Ambition and righteousness are not bed partners. Confession time. . . I find it far too easy to pursue godliness ambitiously, for personal gain.
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The Love that is Infinite
26/7/2016
Littering each day's paths are the morsels of earth's offerings. They distract our eyes, claim our hearts and trip our feet.
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Betsie ten Boom 'still lives'
18/7/2016
Sickening smoke billowed from Ravensbruck's crematorium. This, no doubt caused each inmate to fearfully ponder both evil and their brief mortality.
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3 Ways to Keep the Faith
12/7/2016
November 3rd 1992 saw Jon Bon Jovi release his chart shaking 'Keep the Faith'. He sung that keeping the faith is 'living though the rain'.
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Does this Railroad Lead to Heaven?#
22/5/2016
Children teach adults with innocent words long lost to the adults they unwittingly instruct. This true story is told: The year was 1894.
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9 Facts Heroes of Faith Know
25/4/2016
Heroes of faith ROCK! As regular readers know, my enduring (YEP - until I hand my knife and fork in) super-hero remains Hudson Taylor of China Inland Mission fame.
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3 Truths for a Dry Faith
12/4/2016
Is the soul parched and the spirit cracked? Has repetition at worship dulled your praise? Could the absence of personal devotion be a stealth attack to your faith? Maybe all the above, or...
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A Max Factor Jesus?
18/2/2016
Cosmetics exaggerate features to a BIGGER place in an observer's eye.
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Stolen from a Cross
17/2/2016
Faith is no man's jailer. Faith has been betrayed. It has been exchanged for knowledge. Abundant Christian knowledge is spuriously advertised from pulpits.
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Wrestle Mania
15/2/2016
As sure as the candles on my birthday cake accumulate the titans of my flesh and faith war.
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Of Faith & Fire
20/1/2016
Jesus has called His believers to faithfulness while promising them fire. We must go through many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.
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The Pretending Heart
19/1/2016
As the sun dawned upon recorded time, a deceitfully hairy Jacob masqueraded as his hirsute brother Esau, to steal Esau's blessing.
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For Those Who Would See Heaven
11/1/2016
What kingdom can be built, what storehouses cast open, or what temples erected while the servants simply play? Life is a battleground, it is not a playground.
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The Paradox of Justice
14/10/2015
God is interested in justice, though wherever we look this may not appear so. God is no mere prince of justice - He is its Lord.
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Pleasing the Eye
13/10/2015
Deliberately God planted two significant trees beside each other at the center of Eden. So noteworthy in fact, they were the only two trees He named.
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6 Reasons Why Healing Fails
21/9/2015
Our prayers have risen as incense to heaven. Though persistently released from our heart in great hunger, we may even beg for supernatural healings yet they fail.
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Healing - a Cautionary Tale#
20/9/2015
It is disturbing to me that God can be viewed by Christ's followers as a willing under-achiever. Countless generations prior to the invention of the printing press (c.
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A Healing God? ~ Part B
17/9/2015
There is an impassioned plea to be made for the God who raises the dead, heals the sick and conquers evil - HE STILL DOES THIS! Yet too many Christians languish...
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A Healing God? ~ Part A#
16/9/2015
Has the healing of mortal bodies become inconvenient to God? Does He still repair the injured and heal the sick, for copious evidence would suggest that God does not? Many far more...
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Suffering's 2nd Gotta Ask Question#
15/9/2015
Heads explode when pain enters. Pain can be as much internal as external. The soul and spirit can ache as the body.
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Suffering's 1st Gotta Ask Question#
14/9/2015
From within a very ancient Babylon - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego endured an unimaginable super-heated furnace rather than deny their faith. (See Daniel 3 for this true story.
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3 Ways To Stare Down Enemies
27/8/2015
Israel's second king (David) knew terrifying battles since his youth. In courage he faced down giant enemies from within and without.
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Thoughts from a Simple Heart
5/7/2015
'Direct' could be my Christian name. I am given no more to eloquence than I am to singing.
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A Stronger Prayer for the Weaker*
23/6/2015
What travail did King David suffer when he penned this tenacious cry to his Lord? What times of trouble was David so anxious would pass? Not one is immune from the weakening...
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Beating Betrayal
3/6/2015
Joseph was an innocent dreamer and his brothers guilty haters. In a moment sealed by hatred they conspired to kill the innocent.
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Clothed in Suffering?
4/5/2015
My dear old mom was wont to repeat to her persistent and untidily clad son, that he may not be too slow to learn: clothes maketh the man.
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Esau's Battlegound
13/4/2015
Amazingly Esau and Jesus faced identical battles. Esau's did not last very long. Satan seized an opportunity and mounted a raid on Jesus' future. (And the future of mankind.
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Loving What Is Better
9/3/2015
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of...
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Seeking Greener Fields
6/1/2015
Wishes for greener meadows and the gilding of life's lillies flow afresh each new year.
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Sailing to Peace in 2015
30/12/2015
Soul Snack 249/14 . . . Tomorrow is as insecure as yesterday is now past. The New Year always approaches with uncertainties, lingering fears; both thieves rest.
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The Super Supernatural
16/10/2014
Soul Snack 198/14 . . . TV and cinemas are awash with supernatural invention and intervention in the lives of mortal man.
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Samantha's Lesson!
28/8/2014
Soul Snack 165/14 . . . Four year olds hold a faith-sealed wisdom reaching well beyond the passage time.
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A Matter of Record
30/7/2014
Soul Snack 144/14 . . . Life is no more random chance than a dice is the guarantee to wealth. There is always cause and effect.
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Of Sandcastles and Bubbles
30/3/2014
Soul Snack 62/14 . . . As sure as the tide returns my heart is washed by a recurring rolling wave of the best faith is childlike.
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A False Eden
4/12/2013
Soul Snack 233/13 . . . A False Eden We must shelter our hearts in no rival to God. ~ A. W.
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Becalmed Faith ~ D
26/8/2013
Soul Snack 163/13 . . . Becalmed Faith ~ D The rigging hangs loose, the mast is not secure and the sail is not spread.
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Seeking Peter's permission?
15/8/2013
Soul Snack 156/13 . . . Seeking Peter's permission? We rarely permit ourselves to feel discomfort - this is the spirit of the age. We play it safe.
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Becalmed Faith ~ C
14/8/2013
Soul Snack 155/13 . . . Becalmed Faith - C An increasing spiritual maturity is an attainable goal, not a constantly receding mirage. ~ J. O.
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Becalmed Faith ~ B
13/8/2013
Soul Snack 154/13 . . . Becalmed Faith ~ B "Too many Christians grow old but never grow up. " (Anon.
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Costly Salvation
23/5/2013
Soul Snack 97/13 . . . Costly Salvation Will ye also go away? - John 6:67 As recorded in the sixth chapter of John, Jesus lost His crowd.
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Of Famines & Feasts
12/5/2013
Soul Snack 88/13 . . . Of Famines & Feasts The prophet Amos bore a great burden.
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Agents of Darkness
15/4/2013
Soul Snack 70/13 . . . Agents of DarknessRecently my mowing was interrupted with heretical musings across an untidy front lawn.
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Water Splashing
25/2/2013
Soul Snack 39/13 . . . Water Splashing “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water. ” “Come,” he said.
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Jesus still enters storms
3/9/2012
Soul Snack 154/12 . . . Jesus still enters storms The swells roll, waves thunder, and water drenches as the gales of life return with a varying fierceness.
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New Wine in New Skins
25/7/2012
Soul Snack 126/12 . . . New Wine in New Skins Christ's body - His church is always growing, never remaining the same (as with human bodies).
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4 Facts of Faith
26/4/2012
There was no faith in Eden; there will be no faith in heaven. Faith is the Christian's transport between Eden and heaven.
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How all the Apostles died
21/3/2012
Soul Snack 39/12 . . . How all the Apostles died# Matthew - suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.
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The Faith Account
22/2/2012
Soul Snack 22/12 . . . The Faith Account Life is secured by good planning and many pennies.
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Faith foundations
16/2/2012
Soul Snack 15/12 . . . Faith foundations Faith sees what your physical eyes can never see. Faith knows what your natural mind can never comprehend.
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Keeping it
5/9/2011
Soul Snack 152/11 . . . Keeping it Satan seeks to rob you of your most precious possession. It is the apex and purpose of all his attacks.
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Faith's War Zone
4/9/2011
Soul Snack 150/11 . . . Faith's War Zone There is a war-zone of faith - we live in it without escape.
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Faith's wand
1/9/2011
Soul Snack 149/11 . . . Faith's wand The scorched soul and the fallen body both cry out for relief.
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S.T.A.B.O.
29/8/2011
Soul Snack 146/11 . . . S. T. A. B. O. A kind hearted soul is difficult to find, a faithful one even harder. S. T. A. B. O.
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It was meant to be
17/7/2011
Soul Snack 115/11 . . . It was meant to be Shattered expectations that shake the entire person with disappointment have pursued us all.
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Fuel Fools
29/6/2011
Soul Snack 103 . . . Fuel Fools Devoted to the appearance of the groom, ten young women waited in grace and patience. Only five however exercised wisdom.
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The Schools of Trouble
20/3/2011
Soul Snack 77/13 . . . The Schools of TroubleFaith is my carriage between sunrise and sunset. Faith is my entree to the future and my menu for today.
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The Feat of Feet
3/2/2011
Soul Snack 173/12 . . . The Feat of Feet Suspended above the ravine, ginger footsteps took him forward.
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Toddler of Trust
23/1/2011
Soul Snack 1/11 . . . Toddler of Trust A parent so longs for their child to crawl. This is followed by an equal eagerness for them to walk.
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Heaven's fairy dust
14/10/2010
Soul Snack 180/10 . . . Heaven's fairy-dust Without discrimination, fairy-dust is sprinkled upon lives of both travail and ease.
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Hot Faith on a Chilli Diet
14/10/2010
Soul Snack 202/12 . . . Hot Faith on a Chilli Diet Moses stood unnerved atop Mount Sinai before the non-consuming flames of heaven.
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The Tree of Trust
16/9/2010
Soul Snack 158/10 . . . The Tree of Trust Hearts wax and wane on the tides of life.
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Crossing Jordan - C
19/5/2010
Soul Snack 75/10 . . . Crossing Jordan - C A flooded Jordan, a promised land and miracles by the 'bucket-load', all spell the fodder for a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Crossing Jordan - A
16/5/2010
Soul Snack 73/10 . . . Crossing Jordan - A Three short days previously the Israelites had been instructed to cross the Jordan River.
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Jesus' Black Swan - B
11/3/2010
Soul Snack 30/10 . . . Jesus' Black Swan - B Odyssey Marine Exploration after thirteen years of diligence no longer sailed over treasure.
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Jesus' Black Swan - A
10/3/2010
Soul Snack 29/10 . . . Jesus' Black Swan - A To this very day treasures still lay on the ocean floor.
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A nocturnal surprise!
26/8/2009
Soul Snack 9/143 . . . A nocturnal surprise! Bound within the goodness of God he rested.
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His handprints
27/7/2009
Soul Snack 9/121 . . . His handprints The unabridged life is an examined life.
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Fridge Faith
9/7/2009
Soul Snack 9/109 . . . Fridge Faith Ice Age 3 is here! Young minds are captured, old ones call for more.
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Pain in Paradise
20/3/2009
Soul Snack 9/35 . . . Pain in Paradise Tears in beautiful places can flow as readily as tears in barren places.
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Arrested Faith
13/3/2009
Soul Snack 9/30 . . . Arrested Faith Loomimg menacingly across Jesus now is the spectre of the Cross. Gethsemane is complete.
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Mounting Mountains
9/3/2009
Soul Snack 9/26 . . . Mounting Mountains Regular readers and subscribers may know well Hudson Taylor is my hero. In 1870 he climbed some very tangible Everests.
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Cosmic Conspiring - B
6/3/2009
Soul Snack 9/25 . . . Cosmic Conspiring - B All walk an unseen path. The chances of life appear with neither introduction nor warning.
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Flying High
4/3/2009
Soul Snack 107/11 . . . Flying High Carrying all the saints from the earth's surface to heaven's Son is God's unchallengeable faith rocket.
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God's Telephone Line
27/2/2009
Soul Snack 9/20 . . . God's Telephone Line Steeped in the youthful Ozzie antiquity is "The Rocks".
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The Skilled Spectator
19/2/2009
Soul Snack 9/14 . . . The Skilled Spectator Sometimes she felt as if life had placed her as a skilled spectator during an event on a velodrome track.
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Lord Locks - B
1/12/2008
Soul Snack 8/209 . . . Lord Locks - B Knock, knock, knocking on your door of your house to no avail, can only bring sadness.
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Lord Locks - A
28/11/2008
Soul Snack 8/208 . . . Lord Locks - A Closeted in the cerebellum and hidden in the heart is a mechanism that permits no entry.
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War Safety
13/11/2008
Soul Snack 107/11 . . . War Safety Arrows thudded with a dull thump into the heavy impenetrable leather.
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Faith File - A
10/11/2008
Soul Snack 8/194 . . . Faith File - A John Kavanaugh intentionally approaches Mother Teresa on the streets of Calcutta.
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Bonsai Believers - B
31/10/2008
Soul Snack 8/188 . . . Bonsai Believers - B Neither fame nor infamy are likely to be stressors to the mediocre.
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Bonsai Believers - A
30/10/2008
Soul Snack 8/187 . . . Bonsai Believers - A Captives walking freely down the busy streets, the quiet lanes or congested malls.
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Altitude Attitude - B
11/9/2008
Soul Snack 8/154 . . . Altitude Attitude - B Clawing through my present toward my future are pleasures and pains of the past.
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Altitude Attitude - A
10/9/2008
Soul Snack 8/153 . . . Altitude Attitude - A Bright sunshine so clearly matched his mood. His steps echoed well being, his gait indicated purpose.
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Heavenly Blacksmithing
8/9/2008
Soul Snack 106/11 . . . Heavenly Blacksmithing Forged on the fingertips of faith lovingly extended from heaven is His iron-clad outreach to me.
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The Cosmic Camera!
23/7/2008
Soul Snack 8/118 . . . The Cosmic Camera! Click the shutter of your imagination open! Delve further and further into your recesses of delight and adventure.
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His 4th friend?
17/7/2008
Soul Snack S18/12 . . . His fourth friend? Four men gathered in a beautiful Mediterranean garden, one dark and cool evening.
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'The Long Haul.'
16/7/2008
Soul Snack 8/115 . . . 'The Long Haul. ' Disregarding entirely any personal interest she reaches out with the intrepid faith of an ancient mariner.
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Correct Days
11/7/2008
Soul Snack 8/112 . . . Correct Days Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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Deceit, Doubt & Decisiveness
30/6/2008
Soul Snack 8/103 . . Deceit, Doubt & Decisiveness A decisive belief is a blessing to behold. In a silence that seduces, deceptive whispers arrive almost imperceptively .
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Divine Thunder
26/6/2008
Soul Snack 8/101 . . . Divine Thunder This river bed held untold stories of God's activity bringing both adventure and terror over countless milennia.
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Divine Stealth
25/6/2008
Soul Snack 8/100 . . . Divine Stealth With the stealth of The Divine an all enveloping mist rolled effortlessly through the valley.
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Cheap Faith
24/6/2008
Soul Snack S7/12 . . . Cheap Faith These people were unable to be numbered. They wore dust stained sandals and a wizened skin from the relentless mid-eastern sun.
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The Faith Flame
22/5/2008
Soul Snack 8/77 . . . The Faith Flame Mountain air low and thick commands attention. The freshness enlivening, the cold numbing.
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Great George
15/5/2008
Soul Snack 91/11 . . . 'Great George' I prefer to think of him as Great George.
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Faith always beats fear
16/4/2008
Soul Snack 8/52 . . . Faith always beats Fear! (Thanks so very much to the subscriber SD who wrote this.
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Boomerang Words
14/4/2008
Soul Snack 88/12 . . . Boomerang Words A mist obstructed dawn drifted across the nearby mountain peaks. Lightly filtered beams radiated freshness and hope into his simple cabin.
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'A Call to Arms'
17/3/2008
Soul Snack 8/32 . . . 'A Call to Arms' 24 hours preceding His death Jesus is still teaching.
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The Balance of Life
4/3/2008
Soul Snack 8/23 . . . The Balance of Life He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman.
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Maximum Disappointment
25/2/2008
Soul Snack 8/17 . . . Maximum Disappointment Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your understanding.
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The Root of Greatness - A
19/2/2008
Soul Snack 8/13 . . . The Root of Greatness - A "And they were all amazed at the greatness of God" Luke 9:43 A young boy convulsed uncontrollably.