Category: Mentoring
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Keep it Simple.
I was reading Psalm 131 during my morning devotionals and God spoke to my heart through it so loudly that I wanted to share it with you. It is a short psalm, only three verses.
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Will God speak through a Fortune Cookie?
Recently, my wife, Nancy, and I were in New York City for ministry with a Chinese church. The pastors took us to dinner in a Chinese restaurant. When dinner was finished, someone opened a fortune cookie that read, “Compromise is always wrong if it means sacrificing a principle.”
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Dogs, Swine and Lovingkindness
I was recently enjoying my weekly phone call with my friend, Pastor Glenn Holderread. He mentioned that he had been meditating on Matthew 7:6. He said, it reminded him of a time when he refused to enable a drug addict to continue in his sin by giving him the money the man asked for. Pastor…
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On the Ocean at Midnight
In 1997, my wife, Nancy and I found ourselves in an open boat traveling between two small islands in the South Pacific. We were on our way to a meeting in which I was to preach that evening. It was an open boat, about eighteen feet in length.
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The Key to Refreshing
I have been thinking all the people I have recently encountered who need a refreshing in their spirits. So many of us can become mentally, emotionally or spiritually fatigued from what our circumstances have offered us.
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Yes I Will!
In a recent meeting, I heard Pastor Dale Gentry say this. “The next step beyond “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”” is “I will do all things through Christ.” Of course, Pastor Dale was
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The Proper Perspective
When it comes to what we think about people, it is human nature for our prior opinions to influence our current judgments or choices. In addition, we are easily tempted to compare ourselves to others by
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When the Natural Conclusion Stinks
You are probably familiar with the narrative in John, Chapter 11, which tells of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Do you remember Lazarus’ sister Martha’s response
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Staying Cool when Things Heat Up
I want to ask if you consider yourself “cool?” Here is why I ask. I was reading in my Devotionals recently and came across a Scripture that began to speak to me. It was Proverbs 17:27. In the New King James Version, it says, “He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of…
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Focus on the Opportunity
In the previous Mentoring Minute, I spoke about what happens when your faith brings a lifestyle of testimonies to the caring hand of God. Now, consider this. In difficult times, our expectations always fall short of
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