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Here’s the classic Footprints in the Sand.
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One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
other times there were one set of footprints.
This bothered me because I noticed that during [...]

Imagine you and the Lord Jesus are walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord’s footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the pace.
But your footprints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and returns.
For much of the way, it seems to go like [...]

I am like a broken vessel. – Psalm 31:12
Few unbroken lives in this world are useful to God. Few men and women can fulfill their hopes and plans without interruption and disappointment along the way.
But man’s disappointments are often God’s appointments, and the things we believe are tradegies may be the very opportunities through which [...]

(Jer 3:15 KJV) And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Should the Pastor of the local church be the complete head of that local assembly? In the local churches of today, there seems to be a pecking order of authority and in every church you [...]

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. – Haggai 1:6
A little bit of doggerel goes [...]