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New Decisions for a New You in the New Year

What road are you traveling?

What will 2021 bring you?

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New Decisions for a New You in the New Year

Are you still making New Decisions that will result in a New You in the New Year? January is a time for new choices and fresh starts. Unf...

What road are you traveling?

What kind of year will 2021 turn out to be? Will it be better than last year? Maybe. But a lot will depend on what kind of choices you ma...

What will 2021 bring you?

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year)! 2020 was a rough year. What will 2021 bring you? Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957) was a British p...

Christmas is just Beginning!

It is several days past Christmas Day, but the work of Christmas is not finished. Some years ago, Howard Thurman (author, philosopher, th...

The Stranger at the Door

Christmas Day is just a few days away. May I share one of my favorite Christmas stories with you? It tells us why Jesus came to earth and...

The Beauty of the Incarnation

I had the tremendous opportunity some years ago to hear Philip Yancey, renowned author and Christian thinker, speak at Seattle Pacific Un...

The Mission

"The Mission" is one of the most powerful Christmas stories I have ever read. (A dear friend shared it with me many years ago.) It beauti...

Are you still Thankful?

Mark Tidd of Webster, New York shares this moving true story that communicates what genuine thankfulness is all about. An old man showed ...

Are you Thankful, even if...?

“Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices; who wondrous things hath done, in whom His world rejoices; who from our moth...

What is God preparing you for?

What is God doing in your life that, at 1st, might seem upside-down? Consider the following story. The only survivor of a shipwreck was w...

Are you willing to let Go and Grow?

Brent Mitchell from Ceres, CA shares the following true story. From time to time, lobsters have to leave their shells in order to grow. A...

Glorious Redemption!

Gordon MacDonald, pastor and author, tells this creative and powerful parable about Christ’s redemption. Several management types were at...

He took my place!

Steven D. Mathewson from Helena, Montana, shares the following dramatic true story. Paul Harvey tells a story about Lieutenant Commander ...

Has God given you a Saul?

No one believed in people more than Jesus did.

Keep Holding on!

Pastor and author Greg Asimakoupoulos shares the following true story. On a commuter flight from Portland, Maine, to Boston, pilot Henry ...

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