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Spiritually Speaking: Carpe Diem

Seize the day; that’s what that Latin title means. Rome, Italy, March, 2013 With it being graduation season and all, I felt this phrase would be a great inspiration, although it isn’t only for graduates to absorb. We all love it when we end a day

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Spiritually Speaking: Choosing Happiness

You have a right to be happy. Sometimes, however, you will have to find, create, or even fight for that right. God never brings up or even remembers your failures once you’ve repented and given them to Him; the enemy is able to remind you though, because unfortunately,

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Spiritually Speaking: Long-Run Love

Love has a different meaning for each of us. Some feel it like an intense sensation in their hearts; others view it logically by counting up the check marks of compatibility, weighing the pros against the cons. Some people explain love as just a chemical reaction that inexplicably occurs between

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Spiritually Speaking: Upgrade Your C-Drive

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” Romans 12:2 (KJV) Picture your spiritual life as a computer. Over time, technology improves, and no longer is what you have the latest and greatest. Eventually it becomes outdated and slow; it

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Spiritually Speaking: Standards

For much of my own Christian walk I retreated from confrontation. Instead of stepping up, I would bend—maybe only slightly, thinking I was playing it neutral—in order to avert hurt feelings and crushed toes. This only proved I couldn’t stand up for what I believed in. I

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Spiritually Speaking: It's the Little Things

Don’t you love when you have been in fellowship with a friend, and the very next sermon you hear hits on that exact topic? I’m convinced the Lord listens to our conversations, and enjoys being included in them as often as we let Him in. What

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Spiritually Speaking: A Love Affair

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ…” 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (KJV) Your walk with God is like a romantic relationship. Just when you thought you knew everything

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Spiritually Speaking: Religious Love

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “If ye love me, keep my commandments,” John 14:15 (KJV). So many times I hear Christians use the excuse, “Well, God only looks at the heart,” in order to cover up for various contradictions in their lives. And it’s true,

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Spiritually Speaking: Get Your Head In the Game

A good friend gave me these words of encouragement once while I was in a trial: “Keep your head up. It’s ‘bout that time when you take the ball straight up the middle, get lost for a minute, and come out on the other side with a touchdown!” I

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Spiritually Speaking: Talented and Gifted

We all know those people—the ones we try not to hate because they’re so naturally good at everything. Musically-minded, straight A’s, consistently creative, dancing divas, athletically agile…the list goes on. They don’t just have many hobbies and interests—they excel at them.

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Spiritually Speaking: Facing Our Fears

2 Kings 6:16 (KJV) “…Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” It’s easy to look at the circumstances around us and worry about what will happen next. These days the news channels constantly badger us about everything depressing in

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Spiritually Speaking: Full-Time Employment

Recently, a classmate overheard an employee of a certain organization complain openly about his job (while on the job) in an unprofessional manner. This worker, though just one, turned a customer away for good by giving his company a bad rap. I couldn’t help but ask myself: As a

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Spiritually Speaking: Coloring in Our Lines

One of my favorite childhood pastimes was coloring. Although I tried pretty hard, I wasn’t always successful at staying in the lines, and I didn’t always care if I messed up either. The experience and time spent coloring was usually more meaningful to me than the finished product.

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Spiritually Speaking: The Struggle

After conquering through a time of struggle, a close friend of mine told me she relates her life story to Genesis 32:24-31. For those unfamiliar, it tells the story of Jacob literally wrestling all through the night against a man he did not discern at the time was an

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Spiritually Speaking: Get Real

We all do it. We put up facades of resilience complete with plastered smiles. We “grin and bear it,” as it is said, to hide broken feelings and personal struggles. We don’t want to complain. We don’t want to look like the problematic church member who just can’

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Dear Beloved...

I stopped the world for you to breathe. I halted the earthquake; I blew away the wind. I stepped into that line of fire; I took the bullet just for you. Signing off my fate on the dotted line, I gave you every bit of my strength. In the shadows

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Spiritually Speaking: Fighting With And For Love

Author Max Lucado’s daily devotional, “Grace For The Moment,” is an inspiration to me every day at work. I hope his words are as much of an encouragement to you too, especially in spite of all the tragedy in our news lately. May 29th’s devotion, titled “Love Hates

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Spiritually Speaking: Thick Skin

Most of us grew up believing the best way to get by in life was to have thick skin. From our childhood we were taught to let offenses slide “like water off a duck’s back” and told repeatedly “sticks and stones can break our bones, but words will never