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Last Sunday (3/18/18) I attended Kauai Baptist Church in Lihue, HI. Pastor Nathan Grosse brought an excellent message on “Hurting Hearts.” I took copious notes I’d like to adapt into this devotion. First, the HURTS. We live in a world of hurt! People are hurting all around us from all kinds of hurts—Physical hurt; emotional …
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross… —Ephesians 2:16 You have probably heard of the collapsed pedestrian bridge that spanned the gap between the Florida International University and Sweetwater, Florida. This bridge was supposedly constructed with the most advanced technology to date. Yet, tragic failure of this newly …
In 1978 I became Pastor Ken Blue’s assistant at Open Door Baptist Church. One of my jobs was to lead the congregational singing. Prior to one service I was sitting on the platform with Pastor Blue. He turned to me and said, “I want you to start the service by singing ‘Farther Along.’” I …
Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. —Genesis 50:5 Earlier this week I enjoyed an interesting conversation with the driver of the Kitsap Airporter. While en route to SeaTac airport I asked the driver, “I bet you meet a lot …
It is not what happens to you that determines your happiness in life—It is how you react to what happens to you that counts. You may not control what happens in your life, but you do have control of how you respond to what happens in life! Two brothers—Cain and Abel— both had the same …
Hebrews 11:25 says that Moses chose “to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.” Every pleasure in life involves a measure of pain. Someone has noted that in every life some rain must fall. Nobody experiences any pleasure without enduring some pain. Someone has to …