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Category Archives: Door of opportunity\
2015 in One Word
Have you heard of one word resolutions? You focus on one word for the whole year. How’s that sound? Terrific Crazy Intriguing Your one word can be a godly attribute or spiritual discipline–patience or solitude, for example. … Continue reading
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Resolute Worship
Resolved: to obey the 1st Commandment (the Message Bible phrases it so well): Exodus 20:3 No other gods, only me. God isn’t just #1, he is the only One.
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Resolved: “Rop tú mo Baile”
This ancient Irish monastic meditation goes way back, to at least the 8th century. It is familiar to us as the hymn “Be Thou my Vision.” Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of … Continue reading
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Resolved to Go
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Resolution: Worship
For once, I’m ahead of the deadline. I started my New Year’s spiritual resolution. I’d finished a 40-day study on prayer (I can’t lie; it took me 53 days). Me: What’s next, Lord? Consistency, maybe? God: Worship. And … Continue reading
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Spiritual Resolution
It’s time for your New Year’s resolutions. Last year’s are as appropriate as ever I’m resolving to go with the flow I live without resolutions, that way I don’t fail Make 2015 the year you … Continue reading
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Complete Joy
Philippians 2:2 (NIV) Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Paul got that one right. Nothing squashes joy like an argument. I feel the tension of my … Continue reading
Off-Topic But on My Heart
Black lives matter. But . . . More young black American males die from homicide than accidents 500,000 Africans die every year from malaria More black babies are aborted than born in NYC 6000 and counting Ebola deaths … Continue reading
With Gratitude for All
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Tagged 1 Thessalonians 5:18, gratitude, Thanksgiving
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Corporate Gratitude (Thursday)
I thank God for my blessings – EASY I thank God for blessings bestowed on my loved ones – EASY I thank God for blessings bestowed on people I don’t especially like (i.e, the whiners, the tricksters, people … Continue reading
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