Beyond the Blessing

What Does it Mean to Take up our Cross Daily and Follow Jesus?

October 27, 2022

I remember the moment well when everything clicked. I was sitting on the screened-in porch that had been built between the two missionary staffing houses in Haiti. The long and narrow space was just wide enough for a porch swing to hang easily ...

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What are we doing with the rich investment God has put into us?

October 20, 2022

I have always been a fan of the HGTV show Fixer Upper. A highlight of one of our trips to visit family in Texas was going to the Magnolia Silos in Waco. Home renovators Chip and Joanna Gaines have made a huge investment in this city. They are ...

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Is God Still for us Even When we Can’t see Him Working?

October 13, 2022

So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.” And he said, “Bring the garment you are wearing and hold it out.” So she held ...

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How Does an Eternal Perspective Impact the way we live Today?

October 5, 2022

Everything we know of in this universe has a beginning and an end. Life begins at conception and ends at death. Empires rise and fall. Cars, computers, and appliances are birthed from factories and then die, often much sooner than we hope they ...

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What is Your level of Dedication to Investing in Kingdom Treasures?

September 29, 2022

During small group in the fourth grade Kids Church, I asked my group of girls a series of true and false questions. The lesson was about not just knowing God’s Word but doing what it says. The questions were designed to provoke conversation ...

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How do we Maintain Loving Patience when they just Don’t Seem to Learn?

September 22, 2022

The fighting. Does it ever stop? Will they ever learn patience with each other and treat each other well? My children love each other; I have no doubt of that. Whether they choose to admit it or not, they are best friends. But they are ...

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