All These Things

It was a Sunday evening after the pastor’s sermon; I went forward to pray. I was a young teenager struggling with all the drama and angst that could besiege a young heart. The weight of the world seemed enormous, and I wondered if I would be able to survive and live a life that mattered. Pastor Watson that night did something I had never seen him do before; he opened…

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First Things First

Struggling is a part of the human experience. As a young person, I struggled to be grounded as a believer. Too much of my life was predicated on feelings. If the emotional tide was high, I was surfing the wave of sensation. Then when things were not running as smoothly and the flow of good feeling left, I often would crash and feel that all was lost! One Sunday evening,…

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What Is Your Perspective? Is God for me? Or…

Today is going to be a great day! I believe that the world is conspiring for me and going out of its way to bless me! Unlike the paranoid who thinks everyone and everything is conspiring against them. The word Pronoia is a neologism coined to describe a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from feelings of paranoia feels that persons or entities…

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