Month: March 2020
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Prayer of Peace
Everyone I talk to says something like “I just do not know what to think.” No one does. The phrase ‘uncharted waters’ finds its way into the various press briefings when officials are pressed for details. This is an unnatural state for me, a do-er, a man who looks for solutions, who likes to fix […]
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Paradigm Crash
Many of us are disoriented, as if we are actually living in one of those wacky dreams where nothing seems to work, where every attempt at a remedy creates yet another problem. We cannot help but wonder how the world will look when this crisis is over. We are experiencing a paradigm crash, a phrase […]
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Walking by faith isn’t easy!
Keep the Faith! It’s a great line and an even better choice for life. We have all heard enough bad news in the last couple of weeks to last a lifetime. Are you going to just camp in the awful, hang onto the dread, rehearse the losses? Don’t do it. Christ Jesus invites us to […]
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A Message Nobody Wants To Hear
In the predawn hours, I was in prayer for friends, for the nation, for restoration of our land. In the darkness, when the whisper of the Spirit came to me. “Jerry, I am offering an opportunity for change, holding open my heart to My church. Return to Me.” I paused in my prayer, just to […]
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Staying Connected
A long time ago, in our small church office, a friend brought some strange looking computer hardware and cables. That day we built a network! It connected my PC, the secretary’s PC, and a printer. Those same tasks are now accomplished easily over wi-fi, with automated installations. Back then it was a real job that […]
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Uncertain Faith?
The one common factor of this virus crisis is the uncertainty of it all. The guidelines change each week about who can gather, where we can go. We do not know if our children will be able to finish the school year, if we will get back to work anytime soon. I did an interview […]
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Celebrating a beautiful woman
Good Monday morning! This CoffeeBreak blog is a personal reflection, more so than most, as I celebrate a person today. Today, Bev would have been 66! Happy Birthday in Heaven. She’s been gone a little over 4 years now and today I am remembering her, not sadly, but with joy. Dr. Suess allegedly wrote “Don’t […]
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Lord, save us!
Each day we learn of more about the spread of the virus and none of us has the faintest idea how this story ends. The uncertainty wears on us if we dwell on it, so let’s make a radical choice of faith. There is a story about Jesus’ power that Matthew tells from his own […]
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Today, it’s tears
Have your emotions been in wild swings? Mine, too. This morning there are tears. A song a cousin posted on Facebook as she cradled her baby son on her chest left me totally wrecked for a few moments. Thinking about my kids and grandkids, my friends, the people of my congregation – brought a surge […]
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Don’t minimize the problem. Magnify the Lord!
When I awakened this morning, my first thought was not joy, not faith, not hope. Perhaps you do better at pushing away the heaviness than I do. I wish I could, but my mind filled up at 6 am with thoughts about my friend still in ICU, critically ill; about a server who has brought […]
CoffeeBreak With The Word 