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Healing Can Suck
Scripture: John 5:6
"When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, 'Do you want to be healed?'"
I still remember the day my therapist leaned forward in his chair and asked me a ...
Waiting for Eruption
"Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight ...
The Slow Work of Seeing
Scripture: John 3:1-21, John 19:38-42
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Nicodemus came at night, his silhouette barely visible against Jerusalem's shadows. The darkness wasn't just physical—it shrouded his soul. A Pharisee, a teacher of ...
The Reckless, Redeemed Heart of Peter
Scripture: Matthew 4:18-20, Matthew 14:28-31, Luke 22:31-34, John 21:15-19
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Sometimes my heart acts before my mind shows up.
When we were planning for Operation Santa Shop in Old Fort, I was ...
The Slow Work of Seeing
Scripture: John 3:1-21, John 19:38-42
Nicodemus came at night, his silhouette barely visible against Jerusalem's shadows. The darkness wasn't just physical—it shrouded his soul. A Pharisee, a teacher of Israel, a man who had spent a lifetime ...
The Call that Changes Everything
Scripture: Matthew 9:9-13, Luke 5:27-32
The Call That Changes Everything
Scripture: Matthew 9:9-13
Matthew had everything—at least, that’s what people thought. A steady job. A house. Security.
While some of the others, like Peter, ...
The Touch that Restores
Scripture: Mark 1:40-45, Matthew 26:6-13
Recently, in therapy, I was talking with my therapist about something that made me uncharacteristically angry.
“Anger is a secondary emotion,” she said.
“What else could you be feeling? ...
When Love Calls Your Name
Scripture: Luke 8:1-3, John 20:1-18
My name has always been an issue.
Growing up in Roxboro, NC, it was normal to say “And-rea,” like the word “and.” Then we moved to Sawmills, and even though I introduced myself as “And-rea,” they ...
SEEING BEYOND CHARLOTTE’S WEBB
Recently, Tom's son sent me some photographs because we were looking for some "different" types of things to sell in our storefront at Merino's Mill. Truthfully, I expected great photos, what I did not expect were sacred moments.
There was ...
DOUBLE TAKES
Scripture: "They saw his glory and the two men standing with him." — Luke 9:32
Have you ever done a double-take? That moment when something catches your eye and you have to look again because you can't quite believe what you saw?
The ...
ASH WEDNESDAY
On this day of ashes, we bow our heads and receive the ancient mark—a smudged cross that speaks a truth our souls already know. "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return." These words call us back to ourselves, to the ground of our ...
GRIEF – Walking Each Other Home
"Two are better than one... for if they fall, one will lift up the other." —Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Once Tom was describing one of his friends to me. “After the time of my wife’s death, he’s the one who kept showing up.”
Have you noticed how ...
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