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Thank you for visiting my blog, where I share essays and videos aimed at strengthening our faith, love, and hope in Jesus. In addition to being Jessica’s raving fan, I am a pastor, teacher, author, thinker, encourager, and a health and fitness enthusiast.

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What We Grip Grips Back

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Whatever we possess will eventually possess us. Whatever we hold onto long enough will eventually grip us back. This is true with harmful things like negativity, pessimism, or greed. If we hold those things too long, we will become known as negative, gloomy, or envious people. Negative, gloomy, or envious…
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The Mender of My Broken Heart

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Wow, it’s remarkable how quickly time passes. One year ago, we celebrated Madelyn’s college graduation (BSW), and last month, we celebrated her graduate school graduation (MSW). When she graduated with her bachelor’s degree a year ago, she also released her first book, The Mender of My Broken Heart. This short…
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Knowing the Tides

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Near the end of his life, my father-in-law, John Beal, wrote a powerful William Shakespeare quote into his journal. Shakespeare had written about the tides—the ebbs, flows, and movements—of a person’s life, and how one’s success or failure is largely determined by how they respond to them. He wrote, “There…