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Jan 8, 20225 min read
Stop telling God how big your storm is; tell your storm how big your GOD is.
We are only a few days into the new year. It’s early, but let me be the first to warn you: The storm is coming. Lest you have forgotten;...
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olinfregia
Jan 1, 20223 min read
How Do You Get Ready for a New Year?(Don’t “do”; “be”.)
Happy New Year! It’s good to be here. So, are you ready for a new year? Many are the plans of mice and men who make plans but are sorely...
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olinfregia
Dec 18, 20219 min read
Ok, Who Stole Christmas…Peace?
A couple had two mischievous boys, ages 8 and 10, who were constantly in trouble. You name it. They did it: Egging the neighbors’ houses,...
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olinfregia
Dec 11, 20215 min read
You look like you need a drink…
Five million COVID-19 deaths worldwide. Another school shooting. Russian troops amassed along the Ukrainian border. It’s enough to make...
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olinfregia
Dec 4, 20216 min read
Making a List?
Are you ready for the big day—Christmas? I bet you’ve made your list and checked it twice—maybe more. Tree? (check). Black Friday, Cyber...
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olinfregia
Nov 20, 20213 min read
When is Thanksgiving?
If you said the fourth Thursday in November, you would be right…and wrong. The secular world celebrates Thanksgiving and all the...
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olinfregia
Nov 20, 20212 min read
A Word on Justice
Witnesses, attorneys, judges, and jurors have had their say regarding justice this week. Neither was God silent: "But let justice roll...
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olinfregia
Nov 13, 20214 min read
Fight Cray-Cray with Cray-Cray…faith
What a crazy (cray-cray in street lingo) week. An 18-year-old, crying on a witness stand in a Wisconsin courtroom, claims he was the...
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olinfregia
Nov 6, 20214 min read
What is True Greatness? (If you’re gonna walk the walk, salt the salt)
This week the world said farewell to a great man—Gen. Colin Powell. The list of his accomplishments is impressive: first African-American...
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olinfregia
Oct 30, 20213 min read
The Jonah Question: Do you care? (…what God cares about)
A Sunday School teacher read a passage from the Old Testament book of Jonah to her class: "And the Lord appointed a great fish to...
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olinfregia
Oct 23, 20213 min read
Are you driven like Mike?
The man who drives this bus is one of the most important leaders in the world. It is not because he rose to the ranks of leadership to...
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olinfregia
Oct 16, 20214 min read
How to fish (and not be baited)
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 We are all called to be “fishers of men”. Jesus...
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olinfregia
Oct 10, 20215 min read
Thou shall not lie (no, really. It’s the Law).
Words have worth. Handled worthlessly, they are lies—weapon of mass destruction—like the damage done by two parents who would do and say...
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olinfregia
Oct 2, 20213 min read
Love is…
Patrick Lane had finished moving his daughter into her first apartment--her first year of college—when he gave her a long, loving hug and...
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olinfregia
Sep 25, 20213 min read
This is God’s Work?
“It's a very desperate situation and they're doing God's work, fighting everything they can.” An elected official defended the...
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olinfregia
Sep 18, 20215 min read
What Do You Do When the Numbers are Against You?
Daniel 3 Here are some startling numbers: 1 in every 500 U.S. residents have died of Covid-19. Here is more bad news numbers. Life...
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olinfregia
Sep 11, 20216 min read
What Kind of Stewart are you of 9/11?
This weekend we observe the 20th anniversary of 9/11. We see again, planes taking down the twin towers; a plane setting ablaze the...
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olinfregia
Sep 4, 20212 min read
What Does a New Heart Look Like?
Ezekiel 36:26 Meet pen pals—Deshauna and Frank. Strange pals under the all-too-common conditions of the day—distrust and distance. But...
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olinfregia
Aug 29, 20214 min read
Prayer is more than an act; it’s an act of A.C.T.S.
Nehemiah 1:4-6,10,11 An atheist was walking through the woods one day, admiring all creation. Not long into his walk, he heard a rustling...
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olinfregia
Aug 8, 20214 min read
When God Tells You Who You Are
Maya Angelou said, “When people tell you who they are, believe them.” I believed my tennis group on court one when they told me the other...
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