Category Archives: Prayer

Hope as the Pathway and Agency for Success in Any Venture

Hope is What We Express About Life That is a Bridge To The Future The ability to express hope through challenging circumstances is an essential element to create success in the ventures of life.  Expressing hope is the act of … Continue reading

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Storms: Choices, Consequences, and Contentment

Connecting Choices to Outcome Do the choices that are made every day have anything to do with how things work out in life?  Taking  a walk around the neighborhood after a tornado; then taking a drive through the city, what … Continue reading

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Finding Balance: Are My Feelings Giving A Correct Assessment of Life?

I was recently talking to someone who’s parent had died and the father remarried within a year. As we spoke, I heard the painful story describing the personal experience of a person who felt that remarriage changed the surviving parent … Continue reading

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To Pray or Not To Pray – The Spiritual Connection

Are you preparing for God to send spiritual awakening or accepting spiritual apathy? It seems that we are living in a time when moral decay and spiritual apathy have overtaken many and destroyed any hope of things getting better. I … Continue reading

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Having A Settled Peace In Stormy Times

You may not be experiencing a difficult time right now. From your perspective everything may be sunny and clear. However, storms come. At times, they roll over our lives with bounding blows. How do we maintain a sense of peace … Continue reading

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The Value of Weakness

The Value Of Weakness “Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.”When I am weak, then I am strong.” These words, taken from Paul’s writings in 2 Corinthians, bring … Continue reading

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Are Your Unresolved Relationship Issues Affecting Spiritual Development?

Why do we have so much difficulty receiving from God in worship?  Here  is a good diagnostic question to begin with: Do we have broken relationships that need mending?  In worship we are we focused upon people and things– or … Continue reading

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How Can I be Intentional About Helping Others?

Lifting People Up Instead of Pushing Them Down Many people are professional critics, self-centered, and see it their life’s mission to make as many people miserable as they can each day. Many churches, work places and other types of organizations … Continue reading

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Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Report to the Executive Committee

Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Report to the Executive Committee Related Articles Southern Baptists in Decline (circleh.wordpress.com) We Endorse the CP Resolution From the Louisiana Baptist Convention (sbcmajority.wordpress.com) Externalizing the Problem (sbcmajority.wordpress.com) Restructure Will Not Bring About Revival (sbcmajority.wordpress.com) As … Continue reading

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The Value of Weakness

“Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.”When I am weak, then I am strong.” These words, taken from Paul’s writings in 2 Corinthians, bring thoughts of contradiction. How … Continue reading

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