The 24-Hour Rule

Philippians 3:13 - “But this one thing I do, forgetting...”  After a touch and go, back and forth, high drama battle against a top 10 college team, Hugh Freeze, coach of the Ole Miss Rebels football team, finally came out on top.  It was the first time in decades that the University of Mississippi was on the radar for an important game.  Amidst the celebration and student stampede to take down the goal post, ESPN interviewed Coach Freeze right on the field.  They asked, “You just won one of the biggest games in Ole Miss history, what are you gonna do next week for an encore?”  His answer...

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The "Mess-terpiece"

Ephesians 2:10 (New Living Translation) “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago”.  If you haven’t seen it already, I highly recommend the movie Moms Night Out for you and your family.  It’s a wonderful celebration of the “mess” that sometimes comes with parenting.  In the movie, when the moms go out for a much needed night out with the girls...

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Have Your Logged Onto "Faith-Book" Today?

Romans 10:17 – “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”.  Did you know there are currently 1.32 billion monthly active users on Facebook?  That’s astounding to me.  Americans spend an average of...

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Take a "Bible-Selfie"

Remember back in the day when we used the self-timer feature on our camera to take a self-portrait?  Don’t need to anymore.  With mobile phones and digital cameras, “selfies” are the new and easy way to go.  You can hold your camera at arm’s length or point it at a mirror and voila!  Although the word “selfie” has been around since...

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Do-Overs

Jonah 3:1 - “And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time”.  One of the great careers of any athlete in any sport came to an end last week.  I’m speaking of the “captain” himself, Derek Jeter!  This is the twentieth year of his outstanding and memorable career.  He is #1 in hits, games, runs scored...the list goes on and on.  A first ballot hall of famer.  Last week...

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Less Than $1 Grace...Free

Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified Bible) – “For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment {and} made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;”  Did you hear the story of the people who put some antiques out on their front lawn with a sign that read “free” on them?  People could have taken whatever they wanted, but...

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From Beggar to Businessman

1 Samuel 10:6 – “And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophecy with them, and shall be turned into another man”.  American author, salesman and motivational speaker, “Zig” Ziglar tells this story…A number of years ago, he was walking down a major street in a large American city, and he saw a beggar with a container of pencils for sale for $1.00...

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Effortless Flight

Psalm 55:6 - “And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.”  I love this time of year, the sky is so blue and so high, it amazes me.  So often, I notice a hawk circling our neighborhood (hence, the name of the local elementary school mascot), just gliding on air, not moving its wings, carried effortlessly by the current.  Far more proficient in flight is the... 

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Let Go of the Rope

Matthew 11:30 - "…My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light" 

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase "tug of war" originally meant "the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy". Only in the 19th century was it used for what we know today as a contest between two teams tugging on opposite sides of a rope, determined to pull the opposing team across a designated line...

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Life A La Mode

John 10:10 (Amplified Bible) – “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have {and} enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” 

Whoever put ice cream on a pie first is a topic of discussion without a definitive answer. What is known is that it was served at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, where some restaurant venue served slices of pie with a scoop of ice cream on top. The French saw it as audacious...

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Fly a 747

Luke 7:47 – “Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

This past summer I had the privilege of ministering at the International Pastor’s and Minister’s Conference in Gabon, Africa.  What an amazing conference, outstanding people and wonderful country.  We saw miracles and healing that were a testimony to God’s unmerited favor.  However, my multiple flights on Royal Air Morocco to Africa was, shall I say…not quite as invigorating.  I left on a Friday night from New York...

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There's A Blessing With Your Name On It

Numbers 13:30 - "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it."   

How you see yourself is how you will experience life!  Winners win long before they get in the competition.  In my first year of college...

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Don't Be A Know-It-All

Hebrews 11:8 "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went." 

It was a Monday morning, after an anointed Sunday service, and I was standing in the hallway of the offices where I worked at the time as a staff minister at Faith Fellowship Ministries World Outreach Center.  I saw my pastor walking toward me...

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10-4, Over and Out

Romans 10:4 – “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes”. 

My friend and me were texting back and forth, and were about to wrap it up when he texted, “10-4”.  Remember that phrase?  Haven’t heard it in a while.  For those of you who are not familiar with the “ten-codes”, they are...

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Winning in Troubled Times

2 Corinthians 4:17 – “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”.  I read a story about a woman in Haiti that was caught under a collapsed house and rubble during the earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.  She told of how she immediately began quoting Psalm 91.  Still under the house, on Wednesday she quoted Psalm 91, on Thursday... 2 Corinthians 4:17 – “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”.  I read a story about a woman in Haiti that was caught under a collapsed house and rubble during the earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.  She told of how she immediately began quoting Psalm 91.  Still under the house, on Wednesday she quoted Psalm 91, on Thursday...

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12 Items Or Less

2 Chronicles 20:25 – “And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.” 

Now, that’s a scripture that will get you shouting!  I believe that on the other side of your battle, there’s abundance.  Last week, I stopped at the grocery store, picked up two gallons of Raspberry Iced Tea, and went to the Express Checkout for “12 items or less”.  The woman in front of me was loading her MORE than 12 items onto the belt...  

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