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- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 7: Don’t let your spirit get dehydrated!
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 6: Life is like a fleeting sunset. Cherish what you have before it’s gone.
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 5: What my tree taught me about abiding in Christ
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 4: Timing is Everything!
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 3: The Power of Continuity
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 2: Eternal life begins NOW!
- Get Closer to God Devotions, Week 1: God is close and he wants you to know him
- Bible Trivia and Reading Plan!
- Verses with Music to thank God by
- Me First vs First Fruits
- Up north is not really up and down south is not really down
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Trailer and 23 Sessions
- I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8)
- The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
- Lifting Up vs. Putting Down
- Get Closer to God in 40 Days devotional book!
- Have you taken a bath with the word of God lately?
- Life with Jesus, Week 51: What is a herald angel?
- Life with Jesus, Week 50: Dreams, the Magi and GPS
- Life with Jesus, Week 49: Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews?
- Life with Jesus, Week 48: Let every heart prepare Him room
- Life with Jesus, Week 47: Want to be happy? Be grateful!
- Life with Jesus, Week 46: Pack light!
- Life with Jesus, Week 45: Get away with God!
- Life with Jesus, Week 44: Mere Hope vs The Joy of the Lord
- Life with Jesus, Week 43: Is it too good to be true?
- “Abide in Me and I in you.” – Jesus
- Life with Jesus, Week 42: Trusting God in the storm
- Life with Jesus, Week 41: Don’t let your spirit get dehydrated!
- The Power of Continuity
- Life with Jesus, Week 40: Believe BIG!
- Life with Jesus, Week 39: Forgive
- Life with Jesus, Week 38: What’s between you and God?
- Life with Jesus, Week 37: What my tree taught me about abiding in Christ
- Life with Jesus, Week 36: A life set apart vs. a part of your life
- Timing is Everything!
- Life with Jesus, Week 35: Is it time you took a leap of faith?
- Life with Jesus, Week 34: Keep in step with the Spirit!
- Life with Jesus, Week 33: Proclaiming and Acclaiming the Glory of God
- God uses our shipwrecks!
- Life with Jesus, Week 32: Eternal life begins NOW!
- Our minds are like a raging river
- Life with Jesus, Week 31: Sit Still!
- Life with Jesus, Week 30: Are religions preferences of choice on a buffet line?
- Life with Jesus, Week 29: Can People tell if you’ve been with Jesus?
- Life is like a fleeting sunset. Cherish what you have before it’s gone.
- Life with Jesus, Week 28: Devotion
- Life with Jesus, Week 27: Really God?
- Why should we memorize Scripture?
- Life with Jesus, Week 26: Have you forsaken your first love?
- Life with Jesus, Week 25: Don’t be a stranger!
- Life with Jesus, Week 24: How big are your Dreams?
- Life with Jesus, Week 23: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can REALLY hurt me.
- Life with Jesus, Week 22: The Encouragement that changed my life
- Life with Jesus, Week 21: How God led me to my wife
- Life with Jesus, Week 20: The lens of your heart
- Life with Jesus, Week 19: Live in the Vine!
- Life with Jesus, Week 18: Transaction or Interaction?
- Musing about God
- Life with Jesus, Week 17: Don’t keep The Secret Place a secret!
- Life with Jesus, Week 16: Do you enjoy God?
- Life with Jesus, Week 15: Break free from the harbor, spread your sails and hold the rudder!
- Not Perfect, but Persistent
- Life with Jesus, Week 14: Was that you, God?
- The meeting at the Areopagus: The Apostle Paul takes on the cultural center of the world
- Life with Jesus, Week 13: Come to the table!
- Life with Jesus, Week 12: Safe in His arms
- Life with Jesus, Week 11: Keep in touch
- Life with Jesus, Week 10
- Life with Jesus, Week 9
- WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT – Giving credit where credit is due
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- Prime your Spiritual Pump!
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- What will you wear today?
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- “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest.”
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- Do you have your spiritual bridle and blinders on?
- The gift my dad gave me the day he went to heaven
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- Life with Jesus, Weekly Devotions
- 52 Devotions to jump start your week!
- Dreams, the Magi and GPS
- 7 Tips for an Effective Prayer Life #7
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- What my tree taught me about abiding in Christ
- 7 Tips for an Effective Prayer Life #4
- Don’t let your spirit get dehydrated!
- 7 Tips for an Effective Prayer Life #3
- Trusting God in the Storm
- 7 Tips for an Effective Prayer Life #2
- Do you believe in Miracles?
- 7 Tips for an Effective Prayer Life #1
- Mere Hope vs The Joy of the Lord
- How to Enjoy God in Prayer
- Fun Day Trips in Middle Tennessee: Greeter Falls and Burgess Falls
- Friday Reminder: Fellowship – Love
- Fun Day Trips in Middle Tennessee: Stone Door State Park
- Get Closer to God in 40 Days: Devotions for your walk with Christ!
- Bloopers from the Enjoying God’s Presence Series!
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 23: Transformation vs. Information
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 22 – Slow Down: Solitude
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 21 – Slow Down: Simplify
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 20 – Slow Down: Rest
- Session 19: Surrender – Persevere
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 18 – Surrender: Devotion
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 17 – Surrender: Repent
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 16 – Fellowship: Witness
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 15 – Fellowship: Forgive
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 14– Fellowship: Love
- Enjoying God’s Presence Session 13:Thanksgiving – For Deliverance
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 12– Thanksgiving: For Salvation
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 11– Thanksgiving: For Blessings
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 10– Worship: Enjoy God!
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 9– Worship: Celebrate!
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 8– Worship: Praise
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 7- Trust: Walk by the Spirit
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 6- Trust: Abide in Christ
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 5 – Trust: Seek God
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 4 – Meditate: Instant Recall
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 3 – Meditate: Savoring your Daily Bread
- Enjoying God’s Presence: Session 2 – Meditate: Come to the Table!
- Welcome to our Virtual Small Group Study, Enjoying God’s Presence!
- Is it time for you to take a leap of faith?
- An Intimate Moment with Mary and Joseph
- “Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10a)
- Enjoying God’s Presence: 7 Steps to Walk Closer with Christ!
- “Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.” St. Augustine
- Where has all the time gone?
- Simplify!
- Foster Falls – some scenes from my new study, including a blooper!
- Keep in step with the Spirit!
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can REALLY hurt me.
- Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
- Spiritual Nutrition: Part Three – Remembering
- Spiritual Nutrition: Part Two – Savoring
- Spiritual Nutrition: Part One – Come to the table
- It doesn’t get any better than this!
- Works without faith is dead, too.
- Is it too good to be true?
- Devotion
- Was that you, God?
- Want to be happy? Be grateful!
- Spiritual Calibration
- Has Familiarity replaced the “Awe Factor?”
- 10 ways to pray without ceasing
- Why did God make people?
- Read-Reflect-Respond!
- Are our treasures temporal or eternal?
- What are we tethered to?
- Dreams, a Star and GPS
- Do you enjoy God?
- Key #12: Go for it!
- What’s in your Bucket List for God?
- Key#10: Really, God?
- Is it too good to be true?
- Key #8: How cool is that?!
- Key #7: Don’t be a stranger
- Key #6: Was that you, God?
- People can tell when you’ve been with Jesus
- An amazing tool that gets underused!
- Who do you smell like?
- Key #5: What’s between you and God?
- A life set apart vs. a part of your life
- Safe in His arms
- Can you read just one page from your Bible every day?
- Key #4: Food for the soul
- Have you forsaken your first love?
- Shake Well Before Using: Energize Your Spirit!
- The Mirror Project
- Transaction or Interaction?
- Are you drinking the living water?
- Key #3: Keep in touch
- Let every heart prepare Him room
- Key #2: Give yourself a break!
- Can you see what is not seen?
- Live in the Vine!
- 12 Keys To Get You Closer To God (Updated)
- Looking at Jesus instead of the waves.
- Are you hungry for God?
- How Big are your Dreams?
- Do you lose yourself when you pray?
- Break free from the harbor, spread your sails and hold the rudder!
- Draw Closer #40: What is a herald angel?
- Draw Closer #39: Into your hands I commit my spirit
- Draw Closer #38: A day with the Lord on Monteagle Mountain
- Draw Closer #37: The missing ingredient to experience the peace of God
- Draw Closer #36: Was that you, God?
- Draw Closer #35: How deep are you digging?
- Draw Closer #34: Doing nothing is hard work!
- Draw Closer #33: Has familiarity replaced the “Awe Factor?”
- Draw Closer #32: Beautiful Promises
- Draw Closer #31: Get in front of the Son
- Draw Closer #30: The lens of your heart
- Have a playful Christmas!
- Draw Closer #29: Is it too good to be true?
- Draw Closer #28: Sometimes dying is a beautiful thing
- Draw Closer #27: Transaction or Interaction?
- Draw Closer #26: Take a timeout for Joy!
- Free download for Dwell In His Secret Place!
- Key #12: Go for it!
- Key #11: Don’t keep the secret place a secret
- Draw Closer this week #25: Some things don’t get corrected in this life
- Draw closer this week #24: I can’t see the blessings for the thorns
- Key #10: Finding God in adversity
- Draw closer this week #23: Have you played with your kids today?
- Key #9: Pack light
- Draw closer this week #22: Walking in the light of His presence
- Key #8: How cool is that?!
- Draw closer this week #21: The Encouragement that changed my life
- Key #7: Don’t be a stranger
- Draw closer this week #20: What the vines taught me
- Draw closer this week #19: How God led me to my wife
- Key #6: Was that you, God?
- Draw closer this week #18: The Prayer of Freedom
- Draw closer this week #17: Are there cataracts on the eyes of our hearts?
- Draw closer this week #16: Taming the lion of sin
- Draw closer this week #15: It’s time to turn over a new leaf!
- Key #5: What’s between you and God?
- Draw closer this week #14: One way to put Christ in your Christmas and New Year
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- Key #4: Food for the soul
- Draw closer this week #11: Do you know the owner?
- Draw closer this week #10: Live in the vine!
- Draw closer this week #9: What’s on your mind?
- Draw closer this week #8: Defeat the joy robbers!
- Key #3: Keep in touch
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- Key #2: Give yourself a break!
- Draw closer this week #3: “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them”
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- Key #1: God is close and he wants you to know him
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Life with Jesus, Week 44: Mere Hope vs The Joy of the Lord
I wanted a Pontiac Fiero ever since it first came out in 1984. I finally got one last year, and although it looked cool, it was not fun to drive. It wandered all over the road, vibrated horribly and wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Life with Jesus, Week 43: Is it too good to be true?
I have seen some amazing things invented in my lifetime: space travel, computers, the internet and smart phones, just to name a few. These would have been considered miracles to those who lived before I was born. Why? Because they … Continue reading
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“Abide in Me and I in you.” – Jesus
Beautiful nature scenes with Bible verses about our intimate relationship with God. When you get 94 seconds of uninterrupted time, turn down the lights and let this video wash over your soul and usher you into the loving arms of … Continue reading
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Life with Jesus, Week 42: Trusting God in the storm
Have you ever been told to simply trust God whenever you are faced with challenges beyond your control or when you experience anxiety over them? How does that advice work for you? For many of us, that’s easier said than … Continue reading
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Life with Jesus, Week 41: Don’t let your spirit get dehydrated!
On New Year’s Eve in 2020, I took a walk on the Nashville Greenway. It was pretty cool that day and I didn’t intend to go very far so I didn’t bring water along. But it was a trail I … Continue reading
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The Power of Continuity
My wife is the most consistent person I know. She starts her day with Bible reading, prayer and stretching exercises. Then she has the same breakfast every day – Honey Nut Cheerios. When she comes home from work, she runs … Continue reading
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Life with Jesus, Week 40: Believe BIG!
“It shall be done to you according to your faith.” Matthew 9:29 As Sharon and I were flying home from one of our vacations, she pointed out to me a hole in the dark clouds through which we could see … Continue reading
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