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I Bring Good News

I Bring Good News

Who is our enemy in these troubling times? Our President characterizes the fight against the COVID-19 virus as a war. And that it is. This virus is the enemy of our country and world. We are in information overload. Are you like me and have thought a couple of times, “I’ve got a cough. Do I have a fever?”  Are you also fighting the enemy of anxiety? The health and economic challenges we face add…

A Prayer of Comfort For Anxious Times

As I type this, we are in our first full day of a national emergency. Who would have thought that the nation would be struggling to maintain toilet paper inventories?  We are also in a crisis of emotion. Anxiety and fear wait on our porches, and most of us have opened the door wide for them to enter. I resisted the compulsion to turn on our TV this morning. I saw a meme this week…

You are More Victorious Than You Feel

You are More Victorious Than You Feel

There was a fire in our neighborhood yesterday. Across the street from us. Across. The. Street. I never heard the siren. I met one of my other neighbors at the garbage can by the curb last night at about 10 pm and she told me the story. The house was not burned but it did destroy their back yard.  The only thing I could think to say besides how sorry I was (the fire burned…

Who is in Your Cloud of Witnesses?

Who is in Your Cloud of Witnesses?

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Hebrews 12:1 ESV This verse is preceded with what is often called “faith’s hall of fame” in chapter 11. The roll call of those mighty men and women of God who are now cheering us on as…