Faux Christmas

Caution: the truth is sometimes hard to take. ….Know what I like best about Christmas? At this time of the year people seem to smile more and act a little nicer than they usually do. All the decorations and colored lights are so festive and beautiful to me. Every year I have to put up with a little persecution from those who love the clear lights only, but it's worth it because I am a colored light fanatic! I also enjoy hot chocolate and a warm fire as my wife and I watch all the Christmas feel-good movies that are shown on TV year after year. And,...

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A Most Effective Prayer

Even after all these years I can still hear them.…..all those big promotions for the great sermon series soon to be preached concerning prayer and how to use it in life.         “Learn how to pray in six easy steps”        “Praying to get anything and everything you need”        “Getting answers from God”        “… bla, bla, bla, ….”        (I think you get the idea.) It...

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Dry Spots

Three……. count ‘em…. one, two, three. I have three blogs currently sitting in notebooks here and there (not including this one that I'm writing now) and I am not sure what to do with them. As I was laying out the rough draft of each, I would get this feeling of unsettledness…. you know…. I would not have the peace of God that the one I was currently working on was the “right one” to post on Deeproots. Just so you know, I really do try to follow the Lord’s direction as to what I write about and post each time. This is a ministry for me. Recently...

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Walking Out Your Faith

We live in an age filled with a broad spectrum of information. Stock markets rise and fall on economic information received every day. Political decisions are based on the information gathered by the people who have political goals and agendas, and even wars are won or lost on the information gained by reconnaissance and spying. All of us recognize the common truth that, even in our best effort, sometimes the information we learn is false and sometimes it is true, but usually we do our best by what we believe to be true. There is more information...

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Nuclear Cookies

It was early afternoon when I arrived back in the office planning on accomplishing some paperwork. As I was setting up my place to work, the urge for a fresh, warm cookie hit me. Part of the marketing strategy of our company is to provide freshly baked cookies for our referral sources, so, we have an oven in the kitchen and tons of frozen cookie batter in the freezer. A recipe for bliss….if you want a great cookie. Hey, I'm a rational guy and I usually can come up with a workable plan to accomplish my goals in mind. I knew that our frozen cookies...

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