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Jul 10
4 min

Welcome to the Wilderness

The Place Where Messengers of God Are Formed I had set aside some time to seek the Lord, not because I was feeling especially spiritual, ...

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Apr 24
10 min

THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF THANKSGIVING

It is not a secret that our country is greatly divided, distressed, and in debt. It is not the first time, though. Even when Abraham Linc...

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Apr 24
9 min

WE HAVE NEED OF ENDURANCE

If you have ever read the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's effort to cross the Antarctic Ocean on the ship called Endurance, you would ha...

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Apr 22
5 min

HURICANE SEASON

As Hurricane Ike roared across the island of Gilchrist, Texas, just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, a 14-foot wall of water washed aw...

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Apr 22
5 min

THE BLINDNESS OF BLAME

THE BLINDNESS OF BLAME by Penn Clark There is a tendency in all of us to focus too much on what others have done wrong to us so that we n...

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Apr 22
3 min

OUR RESPONSE HAS TO BE THE SAME

When we are going through difficulties, sometimes it is hard to discern who is behind it. We often become over-wrought wondering whether ...

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Apr 22
1 min

WALKING IN THE GRACE WE HAD IN THE BEGINNING

How did you receive the Lord? Did you do anything that merited His acceptance of you? Not likely. As Christians we tend to add so many t...

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Apr 22
4 min

THE POWER OF THE SEED

In Matthew 13, Jesus said that the sower went forth to sow. It was his responsibility to sow, but he was not responsible for what happene...

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Apr 22
2 min

Walking in Newness of Life

Our home is surrounded by apple orchards. One winter I noticed how many of the trees still had apples on them even though the New York wi...

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Apr 22
6 min

Your Feelings Do Not Matter

In terms of spiritual stability, one of the biggest mistakes I tend to make, and see others making, is concluding that our feelings are t...

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Apr 22
4 min

His Eye is on the Sparrow

It is not the big things in life that create stress for me, so much as the compounding pressure of all the little things. Jesus gave His ...

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Apr 21
18 min

Hope For Depression

There was a time when I would never have admitted to myself that I was depressed—even though I was—just because I was too prejudiced agai...

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Apr 21
3 min

Spiritual Check-up

Here is a list of things that I use on retreats in order to evaluate how well I am doing. These are not in order of importance, but focus...

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Apr 21
2 min

Spring Cleaning

As we enter into spring, many of us fine it necessary to do some extra cleaning around the place. I doubt that many people actually like ...

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Apr 21
5 min

As The Days of a Tree

The Lord spoke through Isaiah about the people of God, saying, For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people… (Isaiah 65:2...

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Apr 21
3 min

Enjoying Fruitfulness

Recently I shared some of my meditations from the verse, “For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people (Isaiah 65:22). Th...

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Apr 21
2 min

Removing the Creepers in Life

We live in a bountiful part of New York, with lots of fruit trees and vineyards dotting the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes region. Imm...

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Apr 21
7 min

A PLACE OF PRUNING

In the first two chapters of my book “Welcome to the Wilderness, I took time to establish how the wilderness is a place of subtraction an...

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Apr 21
7 min

THE PERILS OF UNBROKEN SUCCESS

During his forty-nine months as President, most of which took place during a time when this country was at war with itself, Abraham Linco...

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