A Psalmist’s Testimony of Deliverance

The thirty- fourth psalm is an oldie but goodie.  Its introduction used at the start of countless worship services: “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth” (34.1).  It is truth and aspiration.  We should bless the Lord all the time but we don’t.  It’s easier to […]

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Words

Words. They are our beginning and end, starting and finishing us, recruiting and guiding us. We are all following one Word or another. It is the latter that attempts to unravel God’s plan. People words, human words, time sensitive words that can get in the way, distract us, stall us, tie us up. These are […]

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Given Not Earned

“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” ~ Ephesians 2.10, NRSV “In his hand is the life of every living thing     and the breath of every human being.” ~ Job 12.10 America says that our meaning and […]

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Post- Racial America: Why It’s So Hard To Say

Post- racial.  Post- racial?  Are you serious?  Is it really possible to put race behind us?  Just how is that going to happen? We shake our heads and shoo away the thought.  I cannot say what I cannot see and have you seen the news lately?  Do you know our history?  I do not see […]

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Leaving A Trail

Persons use incidents like the tragic and unfortunate death of Mr. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri to say that we are not ready for a post- racial America. They shout down the word, shake their hands and heads at those who use it– both angered and saddened at our ignorance and naivete. They seem to […]

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