Digital Distraction and the Challenge of Self-Control: Reclaiming Our Attention for God

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In an era saturated with notifications, endless scrolling, and algorithm-driven entertainment, our attention has become one of the most valuable and contested resources. Jacques Ellul, in The Technological Society, warns of how technology reshapes not only our external environment but our very way of being in the world, bending us toward efficiency, consumption, and distraction. […]

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Comfort in Grief Through Fellowship

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It’s been a heavy past few weeks for our family. Recently, we experienced the unexpected loss of a sibling, who was a beloved husband, father, daddy-in-law, favorite uncle and friend to many. The grief has been heavy. Last night, family and friends gathered together in the wake of his loss seeking comfort in the presence […]

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Ejection Day Prayer Focus

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Today is Election Day, a day that stirs a unique blend of hope, anxiety, and expectation. As Christians, we gather not merely in support of political platforms or candidates, but in the recognition of a deeper, more sovereign reality: God Himself reigns over the affairs of nations. Our prayers should, therefore, align not just with […]

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Art and God’s Truth

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Art has always had a special place in my heart. It speaks to something deep within, capturing what words often fail to express. I remember vividly a particular visit to the Dallas Museum of Art. I walked through the exhibit “Bouquets: French Still-life Painting from Chardin to Matisse,” and was utterly captivated. These 19th-century oil […]

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You Must Be Born Again


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Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 When we commit our lives to Christ and commit to follow him, we are born into a new world spiritually. The Kingdom of God becomes an internal womb around our spirit. […]

04/19/2020

To Catch Him In His Words Mark 12:13-40


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Once Jesus entered the temple, things really started to stir up in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast. Now everything was just fine before Jesus entered the temple, at least that is what the Pharisees would have told you. Everything was running smoothly. Everyone was getting along.  The temple was full of business and activity and […]

08/19/2018

I Can See Clearly Now – Mark 8:22-28


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[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida 22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. Jesus has been traveling through Gentile territory. He started in Tyre and then he went through Sidon and then to the region of Decapolis on the east side […]

03/27/2018

Walking with Jesus Mark 7:24-37


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[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Goes for a Walk 24  And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ESV The last location mentioned that Jesus had arrived at was Gennesaret where he and his disciples had moored to the shore after the additional wind storm on the Sea of Galilee and the […]

03/13/2018

No More Separation


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We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19 [responsivevoice_button] How I wonder about that far-off land! I wish I could catch a glimpse of it as Moses was allowed to catch a glimpse of the promised land. He led others to it but in the end,  he was unable to enter into […]

02/11/2018

Finding My Way Through Grief


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By his light, I walked through the darkness!  – Job 29:3 About a month after I returned home from Arkansas after care giving for my sister during her short ten month battle with bladder cancer I had a dream that comforted me through a very dark period afterwards. I found comfort in the dream as […]

01/29/2018

Not Lost, But Gone Before, by Margaret Gatty (1809-1873), Parables from Nature


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NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE                 “—Will none of you in pity To those you left behind, disclose the secret?”                                                 BLAIR’S GRAVE. “I WONDER what becomes of the Frog, when he climbs up out of this world, and disappears, so that we do not see even his shadow; till, plop! he is among us again, when […]

01/27/2018

Mourning Meds for Grief’s Journey


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One of the primary things I have learned in my experience with grief, is that grief can be as wicked as cancer. It can cause significant damage in one’s life both internally, spiritually and emotionally, and externally, physically and relationally. I have seen people with strong religious backgrounds abandon their faith in anger and disappointment […]

01/05/2018

Jesus Calms The Storm Mark 4:35-41


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 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”  Jesus had been teaching many parables about hearing the word of God to a very large crowd who lined the shore of the Sea of Galilee to hear him. He taught these parables, the parable of the […]

12/19/2017