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Category: Renewal
It’s not very often that I find myself completely dumbfounded. But I have been since Saturday. ( It’s Tuesday.) And I really should have known. Many of us have needed and have had Miriam’s in our lives. You know, those people that God places in your path. Ones who from the sidelines influence your life when you start…
In the late 1960’s, it would often be near midnight when several close friends and I would come back to my house on June Drive and begin basketball games on the blacktop court that doubled as our driveway. As I think back on it, I can only imagine how irritating the rhythmic pounding of the ball against the pavement…
Although written prayers have been a part of church fabric throughout its history, I have never really used many, other than The Lord’s Prayer, until fairly recently. But now I find that prayers recorded by those who have experienced much deeper walks and who have preceded me in the faith can do a lot to prepare my own heart…
You will probably find it strange that I mark the time I first read about baloney sandwiches as the beginning of my true spiritual journey. Yes, I was raised in a Christian home with strong influences of my grandparents and my mother around me. I was baptized before I think I really knew what I was doing. I had been…