I’ve been focusing on the wrong things lately. My gaze has been on the “trials” in my life, rather than on Jesus and what He wants to do in and through me. James begins his letter to “the twelve tribes” with this admonition: Count it all joy, my brethren, when…
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At a conference I attended years ago, the speaker held out a cup filled with water and asked someone to come up and hold it. An eager volunteer stood there holding the filled cup, when the speaker pushed his arm, spilling water all over the carpet. And the speaker asked,…
Read moreAnd Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink…
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