Encouragement

God and roller coasters

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Disneyland had a big day a couple of weeks ago. Madelyn (my breath-taking, little, eight-year-old daughter) graduated from the Toontown roller coaster to the Big Thunder Mountain. Our family wasn’t sure this day would ever come (she was so nervous about trying anything bigger that we thought for sure her…

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Recovery

The beauty of rock bottom

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Rock bottom is that phrase we use to describe a desperate place where people’s lives have either fallen apart or where they’ve run out of all options, and although I don’t want to be there (none of us do), I’ve been thinking about it recently and wondering if God views…
Encouragement

Run your own race

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“Let us run with endurance the race set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1) As Christians each of us is running toward a prize—Paul called it the “upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14). And the beauty of our spiritual race is that while we each have the same end…
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Mountaintop Experiences

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When was the last time you had a mountaintop experience? You know, the experience where heaven felt near, life made sense, nothing could hold you down, and you could see clearly to the next horizon? These are important times and we need to have them periodically or we run the…