christian growth

Dealing with Monday

Contrary to what some people believe about me, I do not wake up happy every day.  Some mornings, the sunlight is assaulting and the schedule ahead looks so demanding that I ferevently pray for an extension of the quiet, dark, peacefulness of night. Today, for instance, is a “why, God?” […]

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Bible Man

I have worked with teenagers and young adults for about a million years and here’s a truth you cannot shake lose from my little soul:  those who are taught to love and value the Word of God are about a hundred miles ahead of everyone else in terms of real […]

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An Action List for Altitude

Psalm 63:1 O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is. 5 My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and […]

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Joy: Extreme Thought Makeover

For My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways My ways says the Lord.  for 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 I love this scripture and I’ve heard it quoted […]

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Altitude of Joy

Great is the Lord and highly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, fair and beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth – Mount Zion, the city of the Great King! God has made Himself known in her palaces as a Refuge […]

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