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I Can’t Believe That Worked “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9 Have you ever tried something »

Never Underestimate the Enemy Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. – I Peter 5:8 In March 2013, a US MQ-1 Predator was on a mission in the Persian Gulf that called for it to fly close to, but not »

New Life A few weeks ago, we were startled and awakened by the shrill sound of our phone. It was our granddaughter who tearfully informed us that her brother’s dearest friend had been killed by a hit-and-run driver as he was out walking. They had gone through grade school »

Integrity Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. – Proverbs 10:9 Have you ever thought you could “get away” with something? Maybe you didn’t report that income on your taxes, or quietly sabotaged the reputation of a person you disliked. »

We Have This Moment So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12 This morning, I am 13,316 days old. This puts me somewhere around the halfway point of the average lifespan of 27,375 days. Around 10,000 days ago, one of »

New Year's Resolutions “... forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 3:13-14 Most of us make New Year’s resolutions. Often, we resolve to lose »

Unusual Intel The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven. – I Samuel 13:5 In February 1918, as the First World War approached its conclusion, British Major Vivian »

A Little Grace Goes a Long Way “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” – Colossians 4:6 My parents might be shocked to read this, but I wasn’t a well-behaved child growing up. It seemed like I was »

I WANT TO DIE FOR HIM Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. – John 15:13 In July 1941, a prisoner successfully escaped what at that time may have been the most terrible place on Earth – the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. »

CAUSE AND EFFECT “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 On this day, 81 years ago, German soldiers stormed across the Polish border and officially began the largest and bloodiest »