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THIS ONE PRINCIPLE IS CHANGING MY LIFE

This One Principle Is Changing My Life “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 Just ask any songwriter who has tried to come up with a unique way to say, “I love you,” or a mystery writer wanting to [...]

FORGIVENESS PART 2

When I flew to St. Louis last week to meet Cindy Winters and interview her for a PBS show on, “Trusting God in the Darkest Places” I’m not sure what I expected. I knew the bare bones of her story. I knew that on a Sunday morning in March, 2009 a gunman walked into the [...]

Forgiveness. Part 1

Forgiveness-Part 1 On March 9, 2009 a gunman walked down the aisle of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill, spoke briefly to the pastor, Fred Winters then shot him three times. Those who were closest to the front of the church that day said that the first shot sounded like a firecracker. It hit Pastor [...]

Brokenness, God’s secret weapon

What if this was always the plan? What if the greatest mystery of the gospel is that God’s light shines through broken glass with greater intensity than through unmarred windows? What if the greatest gift we have to give to each other is the rags of our ruin and God’s redemption? What if we stopped [...]

YOU BELONG HERE

You Belong Here To listen to the song, hit on the title in blue beside the sand This is a dream I have That there might be a place And before I cross the threshold they recognize my face They’ve been expecting me The table has been set, the beds already made And they turn [...]