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Expectant | theVisibleKingdom

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It’s Good to Hear Your Voice →. March 8, 2014. I once gave my wife a broom for her birthday. I’m that guy. And yes, I’m still married. Thank you very much. And while that ‘present’ reflected a significant low point in our marriage, I would actually descend to a new depth several years later. I inferred. Correction, I actually suggested to my wife that I was of greater value to her than 10 children. Not the thing you say to a woman scorned. To a woman despairing. To a woman waiting. To a barren woman.

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Beautiful Things | theVisibleKingdom

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Freeing the Hand of God. March 5, 2014. That may be the best word to describe the overwhelming sense of awe one experiences when entering into The Land. Even the decor in the airport. God has indeed blessed the people of Israel with an amazing and undeniable ability to reflect our Creator’s creativity! I don’t think I heard another word he said. The nations are invited. The tapestry God is crafting starts in Jerusalem. The one He is finishing will include thread, yarn and cotton from every tribe and ...

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Every Day is Valentine’s Day | theVisibleKingdom

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Training Up a Child. Freeing the Hand of God →. Every Day is Valentine’s Day. May 24, 2013. For the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers…. For the past several months I have been visiting my folks on a regular basis. Why is that newsworthy, you may ask? Well, because in the past four months my mom has developed acute dementia. Christmas Day, everything is fine. January comes, but my mom didn’t come with the new year. She is slowly leaving us. With All My Love…. Then it hit me. The Cross i...

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Training Up a Child | theVisibleKingdom

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Every Day is Valentine’s Day →. Training Up a Child. May 22, 2013. 8220;Train up a child in the way that he should go, so that when he is old…”. I’ve asked that question to probably close to 200 hundred men as we have prepared to make the walk. The entrance into a wedding ceremony and into an entirely new life. This time it was different. This time it was my son. It was part rhetorical and part pragmatic. It might as well been a question I asked myself. Was I ready? But the hits were home runs. He had si...

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Under the Olive Tree | theVisibleKingdom

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A New Man →. Under the Olive Tree. March 29, 2013. And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. I saw things no one else saw. Thinking no one would be in the gardens at this hour, I left our home dressed very modestly. The spring evening was pleasant, with just a warm, faint breeze blowing through the trees on this balmy night in Jerusalem. Then I heard the voice. And who was he talking to? Just then, he ...

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It’s Good to Hear Your Voice. June 13, 2016. It’s good to hear your voice. Those are sweet words to hear. Not that my voice is so special. Frankly, when. Hear it…I don’t really care for it so much. I’d rather sound like Morgan Freeman. Max McClean or maybe an Aussie. I wonder what the Prodigal was thinking as he began his journey home. I wonder what he expected to hear from his father after he gave his carefully rehearsed speech. Would his father reject him? Would he yell at him? It didn’t take lon...

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Newer posts →. Under the Olive Tree. March 29, 2013. And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. I saw things no one else saw. Thinking no one would be in the gardens at this hour, I left our home dressed very modestly. The spring evening was pleasant, with just a warm, faint breeze blowing through the trees on this balmy night in Jerusalem. Then I heard the voice. And who was he talking to? Just then, h...

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A New Man | theVisibleKingdom

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Under the Olive Tree. Training Up a Child →. March 30, 2013. It’s still hard to speak about. To think about. Even though it has been so many years. I am frequently asked to tell my story. Which I do with some reluctance. I do so only to give others hope. Maybe even you. If Jesus Christ can change my life, He can change yours too. This is the place I call home. I was cut off from those I loved. I wallowed in my bitterness and drowned myself with wine. I burned with anger towards those who I had pe...The o...

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Freeing the Hand of God | theVisibleKingdom

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Every Day is Valentine’s Day. Beautiful Things →. Freeing the Hand of God. March 4, 2014. There’s an interesting and unique dynamic among the people of Israel. A tension that must be lived with on an everyday basis. There’s no escaping this daily reality. How to live with in grace and live with unimaginably pain filled memories. How to live in freedom and not live in fear. How to look forward and not be afraid to look back. Everyone wears their pain. We each just wear it differently. How do you laugh aga...