We all want to be something great! And we all want to be known for doing something great. Whether that is excelling in business, raising a family, being a politician, having a ministry - whatever we do, we want ourselves and everybody else around us to know that we were the best in our areas …
What if the disciples never left the upper room? What if they decided to stay there and continue to pray after Jesus returned to heaven and never bothered to take their ministry outside of those doors? What if they sat on their gifts and when visited by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, …
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On Friday, I listened to a wonderful Focus on the Family Broadcast. Tim Goeglein, former White House staffer and author of the book The Man in the Middle, shared his experience serving with former President Bush which ended when colleagues discovered that he plagiarized some of his work. Humiliated, he wanted nothing more than to …
Today, the House's Agriculture Committee decided to slash SNAP (formerly food stamps) by more than $35 billion. This is an outrage! Think of all of the families in our struggling economy who still have not found employment to support their families and what this will mean for them. It will mean a lot of hungry …
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Earlier this week, I read this excellent blog post on Colorlines: Could I Be Both Trayvon Martin AND George Zimmerman? Although parts of me did not want to admit it, this author's underlining premise, that I could be both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman was true! The fact that Zimmerman, in addition to having anglo …
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Have you ever had a song that keeps ringing back in your head no matter what situation or circumstance that you find yourself in? I mean, it doesn't matter if you are happy, sad, floating on cloud nine or feel like you are sinking in Lake Michigan - this song just keeps coming back to …
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