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Today is the Day of Salvation

Today is the day of salvation
Why is this hard to believe
Our culture has put man before God
A trick that’s designed to deceive
So many will fall to the pressure
Don’t push me – It’s my life to live
I can’t be as bad as you tell me
I’ve done nothing for Him to forgive
The message is all you can tell them
The Truth is all you can say
The Spirit is what will convict them
Confession’s required this day
Belief is our confirmation
Christ died and defeated the grave
A gift that’s beyond understanding
A knowledge our soul has been saved

 –Darryl Hanks

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The Work of Our Hands

I left teaching – for the second time – about two years ago. I was writing a lot on the blog and for a book, with a couple of other books stewing around between my brain and my husband’s. I was very passionate about my relationship with God and devoted to enriching that with study. I told my co-worker, Misty, that I felt like my job was getting in the way of my work. After praying about it, discussing it, and with the support of my husband, I quit my job in education with full intentions to… “Work full-time for Jesus,” as I responded to all who inquired.

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Peaceful Shores

My Dearest God, I beg of Thee

Don’t give me what I deserve

 

Please hide my sins from the world at large

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God Before Cowboys

John Wayne was my hero when I was a little girl. His charisma made him larger than life. He was distinctly masculine, courageous, strong, good, right, honest & sincere. A true-blue American hero, but he wasn’t a hero for just America. The whole world loved him. I desperately wanted to be Mattie Ross. For years, I dreamed I could somehow play that role and reshoot True Grit with John Wayne and all the world would be right. I cried and cried when they shot and killed his character in The Cowboys. I thought they really killed the Duke! My dad explained that he wasn’t really dead – he was just an actor and it was just pretend. What a relief!

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Let This Cup Pass From Me

Profound Understanding

My Papaw Tollett was a Missionary Baptist preacher.

What he lacked in physical stature, he more than made up for in spiritual boldness.

He was a pillar of our church.  A strong cornerstone – not one to ever shy away from the Truth.

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“Plan B” is “Plan A”

Turn On the Lights

As a high school history teacher, it was of utmost importance to me that my students understood what I was talking about. Sometimes, presenting a clear picture of certain aspects – like culture – from a time long ago and in a completely different part of the world wasn’t always an easy task. In one of my first upper-level Ancient History classes, the students were the smart, nerdy-type (nerdy-type people are awesome…just look at the success of The Big Bang Theory if you don’t believe me – everyone loves a good nerd). Star Wars &/or Star Trek were very high on their lists. Continue reading “Plan B” is “Plan A”

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Secular Christians Don’t Drink Coke

Things are Not Always What They Seem

Our daughter, Dayton, was about 18 months old when she mistakenly drank out of a Coke can her father had used to spit chewing tobacco in. She was running through the living room, and as she passed the end table where the Coke can was, she stopped, picked it up, and took a drink. She was as fast as lightning! Poor little baby…what she thought was a refreshing drink turned out to be something truly horrible. It wasn’t at all what it seemed to be.

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The Fullness of His Grace

When my son began to talk, he mispronounced many words and struggled to make certain sounds.  Not out of the ordinary for a baby, and it was sweetly reminiscent of my little sister, Mary, who spoke with a slight lisp and chewed her words when she spoke in a way that mesmerized all she met.  Mary’s little lisp was cute and captivating when she was a child, and she eventually grew out of it (for the most part – I can still hear it when she is really tired).

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Lamentations 3:22-23

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The Book

It’s been given to us

A book that’s passed on

Family to family

Father to Son

From the Son to the world

Though the world rejects

The Truth of this book

Is a Truth that reflects

The ALPHA-OMEGA

Beginning and end

Love and hate

Repentance of sin

Humanity argues

Vanity strong

Hating each other

Passionately wrong

Admit you’re a sinner

Strangely you’ll see

That Satan’s as clever

As clever can be

But God does not lie,

Deceive or pretend

This book has been given

To glorify Him.

Darryl Hanks

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