Blogs
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Monday Morning Manna: Pressure or Privilege?
I have heard several athletes use an interesting phrase lately – “Pressure is a privilege.” The phrase may have originated from a book title by Tennis great, Billie Jean King.…
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Monday Morning Manna: A Benediction for Today
According to Wikipedia, a benediction “is a short invocation for divine help, blessing, and guidance.” From the earliest, Christians adopted benedictions into their worship, particularly at the end of a…
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Monday Morning Manna: God Given Self-Control
As he admitted to a wrongdoing, the young man said, “I just couldn’t control myself.” Self-control is a difficult thing. It has to do with discipline, and discipline is hard.…
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Monday Morning Manna: When the Sun Has its Day in You
It is finally healing – the scar left following my ninth skin cancer surgery, and it’s not my mother’s fault. I remember my mother often telling me that if I…
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Monday Morning Manna: The Aftereffects of Sin
After he confessed a sin in which he had been caught, the student seated across my desk, shrugged his shoulders, and with a sigh, exclaimed, “Oh well, God has forgiven…
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Monday Morning Manna: Bread that Returns to Bless
I spoke recently at a Men’s Breakfast for a nearby church. Present at that gathering was a man who had been a member of a neighboring church where I had…
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Monday Morning Manna: Carry on! Preach on!
I completed another Interim Pastorate yesterday. I only served as Pastor of two churches before I went to work for the denomination, but since then, I’ve served as Interim Pastor…
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Monday Morning Manna: A Lesson to be Learned
Last week’s Monday Morning Manna was deleted by Facebook. Some thought it was because I quoted scripture, but I quote scripture in every issue of Monday Morning Manna. Others thought…
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Monday Morning Manna: Men Without Women
My mother was a great student of the Bible, but I’m not sure she cared much for the Book of Esther. She often said that my father was the head…
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Monday Morning Manna: Asking God to Hear Our Prayer
Do we have to ask God to hear our prayer, or does He automatically hear? When Nehemiah was preparing to go before the King to request permission to go to…