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2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” In the wake of my issues with my host website last weekend, I had several excellent conversations with some of you.  First, let me give a huge thank you to Finn Caspersen, who pointed me to Mail Chimp, allowing me to circumvent the Artificial Intelligence features on my host...

We all get two lives.  Our second life begins the moment we realize we only get one life. - Confucius In my mind, this is very similar to “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom (Proverbs 1:7 among other places).”  Or Hebrews 10:31, “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”  There are many today who say everyone has their own truth. But it is because we are all mortal that it matters how we live. A search on Biblegateway.com  for the phrase “Fear Lord” turns up...

“How do you recognize God’s voice?”  The best way to learn to speak a language is by total immersion.  When I was just out of college and had a job at a school for the hearing impaired, I knew almost no sign language.  But by the end of a year of working 8 hours a day with those kids, I learned it well enough that I still remember enough to translate for a man I met not long ago, and it’s been over thirty years since I worked there.   So on the one hand, giving yourself completely to God...