Nuggets

Your Way…mine

O LORD, my God and Father, You alone know what a dreamer and visionary I have been. I seem bent on rushing into big dreams without Your full blessing. I’m not always certain what lessons I was to have learned along the way. What I have learned is I want to be open to You […]

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Leave it there…just do it

LORD Jesus, I am so often tempted to ask You the wrong questions when things get tough, when sadness intrudes, or the fears of the unknown threaten. I pray earnestly today for he courage to make my first prayer to You to be asking what You want me to do in light of whatever circumstance

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Shhhhh…I, God, got this.

Father, oh my Father, today quiet my human heart and help me trust You to do in me what I can never do for myself. You are indeed with me—watching over me wherever I am, wherever I go. Bind up the hurts of my heart, bring my family closer to You, bless my precious bride

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Healing The Walking Wounded – Week 1 of a Five Part Series —No Matter Where You Are, Don’t Give Up!

The year was 1975. I had just completed doctoral studies at Southwestern Seminary a mere four years before and I was the second youngest ever to complete that work at the time. I was slated to return to the Seminary as an adjunct professor that fall with a view toward full faculty status the following

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Getting It Right

Men, this NUGGETis for you. How many of you came to marriage with the notion that your new bride was going to meet all your needs and expectations. She would be a gourmet cook in the kitchen, a wizard at keeping the house spotless. She would be a fashion model in the daytime and eye-candy

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What is REALLY important

Dear God, please train me to respond to my blessings with more gratitude and less feeling like I am entitled to them. And prepare me to let go of anything You take from me—without letting go of Your hand! Help me count my blessings in gratitude all day today, for Jesus’ sake. Amen Verse for

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