Tag: calling
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This road was bigger
I never thought it would change. Coming back from roads that I’ve traveled many times before, through Aledo and Fort Worth where I grew up to Arkansas where my dad’s family is from, I felt a strange sense of weight in my heart. In the space of life that I now live in with kids…
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Pine needles are for kids
For Thanksgiving this year, our family stayed out in the woods outside of Arkadelphia, AR. It was a beautiful spot, secluded, quiet, and with a ton of trees. My three year old (like any reasonable three year old) upon seeing the trees and the hills and the lake below, decided he’d take off at a…
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Hotels and Swamps
Ever visit a swamp? There’s kind of a creepy quality to it. While everything is green and vibrant, there can be a kind of stillness that unsettles. It’s not particularly the stillness or the quiet, but rather the fact that with all the green around we know there’s something living under that water, and that…
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Scars and Shorelines
What does revival look like in a believer’s life? At a recent youth camp, the idea was posed to us of “returning to the way things used to be” with regard to our faith. That statement made me pause…Is that a true goal? Should we desire to return to some previous form of faith and…
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Preparations
“The horse is fitted for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.” Proverb 21:31 In my ministry, the worst times of anxiety have always been the last 2 days before an event. You can spend weeks and months preparing for an event at or through the church, but every time the…
And yet, and yet... 