A popular song from the year 2000 by Lee Ann Womack titled, "I Hope You Dance" held at least three number one rankings on the national charts in its time. Maybe you have heard of it. Like a parent speaking to a child, it is directed to …
Remember the 1950's television sitcom Father Knows Best? Robert Young starred as the mythical father of the Anderson family. His wife was a homemaker and mother to their three children. Each week an opportunity arose for "Dad" to solve a …
It seems that ample correction is occurring in the Body of Christ. Perhaps it might be said another way: There is currently a lot of illness in the Body of Christ. Correction of God's people seems to come in two broad, overlapping …

(35) Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. (36) For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
(37) “For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
(38) Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.” (39) But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
This is not the first time faith or its opposite, unbelief, is mentioned in Hebrews. The very purpose of the entire epistle is to recapture, build, and sustain in its recipients their faith in the superiority of Jesus Christ Himself and …
This past week, I have literally been sick and tired. I do not know the direct cause of my illness. It is probably due to the stress that always builds this time of year, enhanced by extra speaking assignments, travel, rich foods, decreased exercise, and a handful of other concerns. It may be the result of contracting an illness picked up last week. Whatever the source, I have lost a great deal of sleep and limited my workdays to catching up on the hundreds of emails I ignored for ten days, which has added to the stress. Sickness is part of the human condition. We are biological creatures …
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