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Learning to trust

March 9th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Sunday, I was having one of those days where you just seem off step. The whole morning I found myself moving from room to room either forgetting to bring something I needed or not being able to remember why I had entered in the first place. The whole morning felt that way and truth be told it began before then. As I had worked on my sermon during the week and as the clock kept ticking and I started working even harder, nothing was really flowing. Saturday I went to bed with a whole lot of knowledgeable wonderful things to say about the history of kings in Israel and how Christ fulfilled the duties of what a king was meant to be. However, truth be … Read entire article »

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Trusting God During Times of Broken Expectation

July 3rd, 2009 | 3 Comments

This past week I was serving as a chaplain at our church camp and also teaching wilderness skills to kids.  Multiple times during the week, I found that my efforts to plan didn’t always work out the way I anticipated.  Instead, something else more fitting to the moment that I never could have planned would fall in place.  I felt like God was trying to point out to me that I needed to trust that when my efforts are faltering, the Lord has something different in mind.  The week was a lesson in trust.   Today I received a pop quiz. Today, through a serious of small mishaps, I missed a flight and found myself stuck at an airport in Memphis, Tennessee.  Rather than getting sucked down in a pit of … Read entire article »

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