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Are you living life on autopilot? Discover how breaking the routine and focusing on God can unlock joy, creativity, and His best plan for your 2025!
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Experience God’s love in life’s joys and heartbreaks—from a baby’s laugh to saying goodbye to a beloved pet—and discover how to love unconditionally, just as He does.
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This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalm 118:24 As we ponder Psalm 118:24, I believe it sets us to wonder if God wrote this scripture for such a time as this. There is much evidence that end-time prophecies may
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So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. – Galatians 6:9 NLT When in business, you will continually be waiting on something—waiting for product, waiting for customers, waiting for payments, and
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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” – Joshua 1:9 Business over the past few years has been anything but predictable. I’ve likened it to learning dance for
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“…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” – 2 Corinthians 3:17b Terry and I are co-leaders for a small group at our church. A couple of years ago, we attended a Bible study called “Freedom,” authored by the lead Pastor Chris Hodges of The Highlands Church. It
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“It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” – Psalm 118:8 COVID-19—who would have thought it would still be wreaking havoc at the end of 2021? How did this virus go from being dangerous for our physical health to damaging our relationships, our economy,
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“A discerning heart seeks knowledge” — Proverbs 15:14 Okay, I don’t know if anyone else is struggling—emotionally, physically, and mentally—but this season of COVID and political unrest has me experiencing all three. If you know me personally or talk to anyone who knows me, they will tell you I am
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“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 In May, I tested positive for COVID, and Terry also a few days later. I remember, only hours before, spending time during my morning prayer expressing
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“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7 This has been a difficult month for our family;
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“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others.” Philippians 2:3-4 This time of COVID is a time when we all feel out of
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Where are you mentally living today? It is interesting to me that every night, as I lay my head down to sleep, my first thought isn’t, “Oh, my goodness, it feels so good to lay my head on my pillow in my comfortable bed. Thank you, Lord, that I can
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There is a passage from the Old Testament that God has been reminding me of several times over the last few weeks. There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in
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“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” — Isaiah 43:19 There is much more to this pandemic than meets the eye, and if we are not careful, we
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Although I have been doing The Shepherd’s Guide for 32 years, we are walking in uncharted territory. So how do we proceed? How do we know what to do, which path to take? I relate very closely to Peter in Matthew 14, when he saw Jesus walking on the water.
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Psalm 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me. “Joyful obedience” may just be an oxymoron. What child ever says, “Yes, Mommy, I would love to do those dishes for you!” Or, what adult on a diet sees their favorite cake at a