Borrowed Breath

I really should stay here just a bit longer,
Yet something within me is restless, astir,
Compelling me to leave this trysting place,
Longing to go back, each footstep retrace.
 
Yet my spirit knows I should linger here,
Here where your presence quells my fear,
Where your whispered promises restore me;
Where I catch little glimpses into your glory.
 
Here I will linger […]

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Jason Morant, one of the better singer/songwriters out there, wrote this song entitled “Open.”
It’s time for something
More real than all these words.
While the least of these are broken and dying,
We count the pearls in our purse.
     It’s time to live in love.
     It’s time to live in love.
So open up your doors,
Let the Son shine out into […]

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Well the missions conference at Grace Baptist is over.  Last night, Michelle and two other missionaries gave updates on their ministries.  It was a really good time.  In fact, the whole conference was well done and very encouraging and uplifting to the missionaries.  Michelle’s little Chevy Cavalier made five trips out to Lancaster and back.  It was good […]

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What does surrender mean?  We throw that word around a lot in our Christian circles.  But what does it really look like?  I don’t have all the answers, but here are a few things that jump out at me about surrender.
Surrender is freedom from having to be right.
Surrender is laying down my weapons of self-righteousness.
Surrender […]

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Let’s lift up Dan Kimball’s family.
Life Is Fragile

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I am not sure how many people hop on my little blog on any given day.  But I’m throwing this prayer request out there and asking for you to join me and my family in interceding for the health of my dad.  My dad has had serious physical ailments for most of his adult life.  […]

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Michelle and I will be in Lancaster this weekend at a missions conference at Grace Baptist Church.  For those of you who don’t know, my wife is a full-time missionary with REST Ministries.  They minister to hurting women in the Coatesville area.  Grace Baptist (as a church and its individual members) is one of Michelle’s […]

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
     joy, peace, patience,
        kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
           gentleness, self-control;
against such things there is no law.
(Galatians 5:22-23 ESV)

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Last night, we watched “March of the Penguins.”  It was amazing.  A lot of things stood out to me, but one fact jumped out at me.
After the mothers lay the eggs, they pass the eggs off to the father so they can go 60 miles back to sea to eat again.  They do this little […]

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