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A Real Crisis

You may have been in a store sometime in the last few days, or seen a story on the news, and discovered that there’s a shortage in toilet paper. Amid the outbreak of the latest Coronavirus incarnation, COVID 19, a public panic over toilet paper found fertile ground in social media and has since spread faster than the virus itself. The shelves are empty everywhere. People have been seen in big box stores with mountains of toilet paper in their carts. The more pictures and stories showed up on social media, the more shoppers rushed to the stores to stock up on toilet paper. Fueled by fear, people fight each other over the last package.

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Live by Faith

Live by faith
Or live by deeds
One is a struggle
One fills our needs
If you’ll give up control
Your faith will increase
Rely on yourself
And your blessings will cease
Lean not on your own understanding
Glorify God to the most
Your needs are well known by the Father
The Son and the Holy Ghost

Darryl Hanks

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The Power of Pride: Part 3

Is Pride Really a Problem for Christians?

Pride can affect the most spiritually sound and mature Christian. Its dangers are real, and it’s alive and thriving in our world.

It can create deep wounds that leave ugly scars.

Pride can have destructive repercussions that change your life and/or the lives of those around you forever.

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The Power of Pride: Part 2

To see Part 1 of this series, CLICK HERE.

In Part 1, we began to look at the power of pride. I asked you to complete a Self Examination to help expose any areas in your life where pride might be hiding. The exam was based on only 5 areas I chose to focus on. Pride can be hiding in many other places in your life. This examination was meant to provide you with food for thought.

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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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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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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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