Learning about God through Nature

If I had to pick just one word to describe California’s Yosemite National Park, it would be “vast”. In fact, according to Wikipedia, the park of nearly 1,200 square miles is approximately the same size as the state of Rhode Island, and it contains roughly 800 miles of hiking trails. It is so big that […]

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Fall into God's Arms

Battles, Trust, and Holding Up

Once in a corporate setting, I participated in an activity called a trust fall. In this team building exercise, participants take turns intentionally falling while relying on others to catch and hold them up. If you were a team member selected to fall, you would fold your arms against your chest, then either tilt backwards

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Morning greeting of God's help

Praying Scripture for God’s Direction

Recently, a memory from high school led me to explore how praying Scripture helps us discover God’s direction: Several friends and I had traveled to a neighboring city to attend our first concert. In our excitement to sing along with the pop rock sensation Rick Springfield, we did not pay close attention to the route

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Considering Joy in the Setbacks

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 NIV Spring… Here in the heartland of America, the start of

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Three crosses in light

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, the Life–a poem

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 NIV The Way… Jesus left heaven to become the way there–a love message he and his Father, as one, prepared. Born to Earth as God in flesh,his story delivers our ultimate forgiveness.

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