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God's timing, New Building, patience, waiting
That is indeed the question. As for this latest week in the saga of when in the world will OGC get into its new building, the answer is, I am sorry to say it, not to CO. However, we are making progress. Next week may bring an entirely different response. New handrails got installed today. [...]
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gospel, grace, mercy
Grace is amazing. Grace is surprising. Grace is hard to accept. Grace is offensive. Do any of these statements resonate with you? All together, they comprise a summary of my journey with this concept called “grace”. What would our lives look like if grace became more of a daily experience instead of a one-time ticket [...]
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bitterness, Journaling, providence, resentment, thanksgiving
On Sunday toward the close of my Mother’s Day message, I inserted an acrostic using the word ABLE to help crystallize four practical application principles for making the journey from a place of resentment in our spiritual lives to one of true blessed contentment. Naomi (means pleasant or sweet) suffered so greatly from a battle with bitterness [...]
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art, imagine, john lennon, Music, peace, revelation, utopia
Similarities and differences in John Lennon’s Imagine and John the Apostle’s Revelation.
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What is Mother’s Day? As a potentially disrespectful high school student, I recall many of my friends saying things like it is a holiday created by greeting card companies for the express intent to make money. Of course, they said the same thing about Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Flag Day. I guess the [...]
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New Building, sovereignty of God, Trust, waiting
I am really looking forward to our church getting one of these from the City of Altamonte at some point in the near future. Our fearless building committee chairman gave me the skinny today about where things stand after almost another full week of trying to dot every “I’” and cross every “T” on our [...]
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compassion, despair, Joy, perspective, providence, suicide, VOM
The letter came today. Voice of the Martyrs (Nancy and I receive their monthly newsletter and give as led to their ministry from time to time), fiercely devoted to serving the persecuted church across the globe since 1967, confirmed what I had already heard via the internet. Executive Director, Tom White, took his own life [...]
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We all tend to orient our lives around removing “empty” spaces, where God is asking us to seek Him in them.
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We are awaiting a beginning. Is that so abnormal? We see something that is about to happen, see God in it, and want to press the fast forward button. While I am the last person in the world who would ever purport to be able to teach patience, I am a believer that everything happens [...]
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inspections, New Building, patience, self-pity, waiting
Strange way to intro this blog post, yes? It will make sense quite quickly, I’m afraid. Wednesday saw us undergo a number of inspections on our property. We faired pretty well on the inside. We passed some items; others need a little more fixing. But overall things look good for the CO from that vantage [...]
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