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Legacy
Legacy…according to the dictionary it’s “anything handed down from the past as from ancestor to predecessor”. Legacy…more simply put, “the part of our ourselves we leave behind when we are gone”. Legacy…could it be there’s more to it than that? I have been thinking about the concept of legacy a lot lately. Maybe it has…
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Authentically Mine
“I would drip coffee on my new study Bible. Guess it’s more authentically mine?” I had to chuckle to myself when I read this. Of course, this was a tweet from one of my own daughters so I probably felt a little too free to see the humor behind her comment…especially since I had a flash back of myself…
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I Know the Good Samaritan – Do You?
We live in the world that is too often full of pain and misery. We live in a world with to do lists too long to complete and pedestals too high to climb. We wear masks to hide who we really are in an effort to meet the expectations of too many people in too many places. And in…
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What Kind of Stranger Are You?
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. Luke 10:27 The sun beat down relentlessly on his half-clothed body as he lay in the dirt fighting for his next painful breath. Thoughts of his family flashed through his mind, giving him the…
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Not a Clique; Not a Club; Not a Circus
See I have written your name on the palms of my hands… Isaiah 49:16 Remember what it was like to divide up for teams when you were a kid? First, the captains were chosen – you know, the popular kids who play EVERY game like they were born with sports paraphernalia attached to their hands? And then the torture began.…
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Break My Plans; Shape My Heart
Wow! What a magnificent Easter service we had at Valleydale Sunday morning! Personally, I had never heard of the singing group This Hope before, but I am extremely thankful that I know about them now. It was evident from the very start they didn’t come to entertain us; they came to bring us a message. That message has reverberated…
