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Lessons from Texas Ranger
I mentioned in a previous post that our youngest dog had to have knee surgery. As a young, active black lab, the injury he sustained is quite common. The surgery is only an hour or so long and has been done so many times that it’s almost routine, with a 95% success rate. We have the resources to do the surgery and my husband didn’t want to lose one of his hunting buddies at 4 years old. No one warned me how much work it would be to keep an 85-pound four-year-old trained hunting black lab who loves to jump calm and quiet for four months! Even with sedation, the…
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Value of Reading the Bible with Your Child
The value of reading the Bible with your child is so rewarding.
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Okay, God. What’s my Job?
Fully depending on God Surrendering to God seems easy, but as we’ve seen its harder than we think to surrender our will and follow God. I don’t know about you, but in any relationship I find that I do much better when I have a clear understanding of my role. Honestly, I don’t know that I have ever clearly understood role in relation to God, but that is changing. According to Henry Cloud and John Townsend in their book How People Grow, we need to do four things to have right relationship with God. First, we need to fully depend on God, we have to stop controlling, we must give up…
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You Are Not the Boss of Me
Surrendering to God I’m going to confess something. I have lived most of my life in rebellion to God and most people haven’t noticed. You know why they haven’t noticed? I’m nice. I’m kind. I go to church on Sunday. I used to be a church pianist. I have a good job and pay my bills. I don’t watch porn, I don’t drink, and I rarely swear. I’ve had a couple of more obvious rebellions, such as having a child out of wedlock, divorce, and buying a fancy red sports care that screams look at me, but my daily life looks pretty Christian. I suppose my rebellion is subtler than…
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Worrying: How to Solve
As the saying goes, “Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” (Glen Turner) Worrying is in our human nature. Some of us worry a lot, while others don’t seem to worry at all. There are big worries, and little worries every day. Worry come with everything we do and every choice we make, but fear not for the Lord is with us every step of the way. Matthew 6:34 says, “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” This verse tells us we…