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You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. ~Job 11:16~ I’d be lying if I said that this had been a year without challenges. As I’ve expressed here a few times this year, 2012 was one of the most difficult years I’ve had and I’m not exactly sorry to see…
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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 NIV~ This has been a challenging year. In fact, as I look back on it, I believe it could have been one of the…
The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence. ~2 Samuel 22:3 NKJV~ It doesn’t make sense. None of it, really. How can we ever justify the loss of the life of a child? …
Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. ~Psalm 31:9 (NIV)~ We generally hear of the calm before the storm, but in some cases the storm has been raging for so long that we’ve forgotten how that calm looks and feels. …
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. ~Luke 5:16~ About ten years ago, my youngest sister Jennifer left us to move to Boston to attend Berklee School of Music. At the time, I was married and very busy with the life I was trying to build. All the same, I missed her terribly…
Sweet is the song, I’m singing today. I’m redeemed, I’m redeemed. Trouble and sorrow have vanished away, For I have been, I have been redeemed. ~Redeemed, Gospel Hymn~ My Aunt Connie used to sing to me. There were two old hymns that I can remember hearing nearly every time I went to visit her. One…
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than…
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. ~Colossians 3:16~ So, I generally try to put a little extra effort into the time I spend with my daughter because…
“The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.” ~Zechariah 14:9 NIV~ This being the 100th post on Leading the Follower, I figured it had better be good. Then I remembered that it was me writing it and decided that the…
[ The Fellowship of the Believers ] They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ~Acts 2:42~ Let me say first that this post is not meant to hurt feelings or otherwise create tension between those who are already clearly struggling to be at peace…
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