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God's Aid for the Overwhelmed Heart
(Psalm 94:19)
God is Father to every believer in Christ. As "Abba, Father," He loves to hear His people. He never tires of our concerns. He invites us to cast all our care upon Him, for He cares for us (1 Peter 5:7). He knows we are weak, from the dust, so our desperation is no surprise to Him. He is ready, always, to console His overwhelmed children. (1 Minute/400 Words)
Read moreStatutes as Songs
(Psalm 119:54)
When I played basketball in high school, we had a warm -up song. It was our anthem. Every time we warmed up in our home gym, Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" blared from the blown-out public school speaker system. (1 Minute/200 Words)
Read moreHow to Teach Your Kids God's Word
(Deuteronomy 6:7)
The Holdridge Family Minivan is one of my favorite places on earth. As the odometer whirls, so do the conversations. Together, we traverse. Short trips. Long trips. Happy ones. Grumpy ones. And as we go, so do our words. Time to check-in. Time to laugh. Sometimes, time to teach. (4 Minutes/1000 Words)
Read moreSabbatical Update
Greatest. Summer. Of. My. Life.
I am forever grateful to Calvary Monterey for sending me on sabbatical this past summer. It was the best summer of my entire life. Taking a full two months for rest and adventure came at a perfect moment. (6 Minutes/1600 Words)
Read moreJeremiah Wasn't Always Alone -- Neither Are You
(Jeremiah 26:20)
Jeremiah, like most of the prophets, was a solitary pillar of truth in a wasteland of doctrinal deception. He stood for the truth of God, saying hard things during hard times when no one else would. As truth spilled from his mouth, lies dripped from the lips of many false prophets. (3 Minutes/600 Words)
Read moreMake Dead Friends
(Romans 15:4)
While writing to the church about the proper handling of liberties, Paul encouraged his readers to develop a lot of dead friends. What I mean is, he thought the endurance required for the Christian life requires a relationship with the characters of the Old Testament. He saw the pages of his Bible as a limitless source of encouragement for the modern life of faith. (8 Minutes/1600 Words)
Read moreStop Turning to Miserable Comforters
(Job 16:2)
Job, in the midst of a massive trial, had three friends who attempted to confront him with "their truth," which were all lies, and Job knew it. Though his perspective was not quite yet God's, he recognized a void of wisdom when he saw one. His three friends had not yet tapped into real truth. They had come, perhaps to comfort and console, but had done no such thing. (3 Minutes/600 Words)
Read more7 Lessons From Philip's Adventure
(Acts 8:26)
In the midst of a powerful outworking of God’s Spirit in Samaria, Philip was told to depart and go to Gaza. He was one of the first deacons, a spiritual man responsible for material things in the church, but by the time we see him here, he has become a preacher of the gospel. Persecution had struck the church in Jerusalem. People fled, so did Philip, and he went down to Samaria. (9 Minutes/1200 Words)
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A proud man, Naaman had it all. As a man of war, victorious. As a servant to his king, pleasing. As to honor, held in high esteem. But this proud Syrian general was unclean with leprosy...
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