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To Wait on The Lord

May 13, 2019 by admin No Comments

“I wait for The Lord, my soul does wait, and in His Word do I hope. My soul waits for The Lord more than the watchmen for the morning; indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning” Psalm 130:5-6.

Psalm 130

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Homebuilding

April 23, 2019 by admin No Comments

“Unless The Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” Psalm 127:1

Psalm 127

Forty-six wonderful, crazy, wild, rambunctious years ago I placed a wedding band on the left hand of the one Debbie-Jo Downs of Scottsdale, Arizona. We were as naïve as it gets about what it takes to build a family. All I knew was that I was madly in love with her and wanted to spend every second of every day the rest of my life with her. (Crazy thing is, after almost half a century together I still feel the same way about that girl of mine!)

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Fearlessness Through Intimacy with The Shepherd

April 9, 2019 by Joe White No Comments

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” Psalm 27:1

Psalm 27

The book “Fearless” is a tear-jerking, true story about a U.S. Navy SEAL named Adam Brown who gave his life in the fight to free the world from tyrannical Taliban terrorists in Eastern Afghanistan. This New York Times best-seller brilliantly describes Adam’s road to SEAL Team Six qualification and his personal battle to overcome cocaine addiction and become one of the truly greatest freedom fighters in United States military history.

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The Pathway of The Shepherd

April 4, 2019 by admin No Comments

“Make me know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are The God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day”Psalm 25:4-5.

Psalm 25

When I was a small child, my family raised two sheep. One was jet black, and the other was pure white. We called the black sheep “Bonnie” and the white sheep “Sugar”. They were beautiful, sweet, friendly and… NOT famous for their thinking skills. But I loved those sheep and as long as we took care of everything for them, they survived and flourished. I never guided sheep on a mountainside journey, but I learned enough about them as a child to be certain that, without a guide, they could never survive.
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The Lord is My Shepherd

March 12, 2019 by admin No Comments

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. ” Psalm 23:1-3

Psalm 23

In perhaps the most widely-known poem of all time, David combines his childhood background of life as a shepherd and his soulful connection with God, the central focus of his life.

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Boundaries : Raising Kids Who Love the Lord

March 7, 2019 by admin No Comments

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.” (Ephesians 6: 1-3)

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The Shepherd’s Sacrifice

March 5, 2019 by admin No Comments

“For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me; they pierced my hands and my feet ” (Psalm 22:16).

Psalm 22

Eight hundred years before the cruel and brutal Assyrians and Romans began to sentence men to the historical crucifixion where metal nails would be driven into a man’s hands and feet to impale him to a Cross until he had cried out his exhaustive scream of pain and anguish, David prophesied the death of our Shepherd in graphic detail.

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The Shepherd’s Delight

February 23, 2019 by admin No Comments

“He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me” (Psalm 18:19) .

Psalm 18

In my cluttered closet where I grab a shirt and pair of jeans and put on my leather cowboy boots each morning, I have a mirror over my dresser drawers. I look into that mirror as little as possible (to avoid looking at my old, wrinkled hillbilly face)! But, when I brush and dry my hair, I look up and smile as I see the only two pictures on my mirror. One picture is of my daughter, Courtney, and the other is of my daughter, Jamie! Just two pictures. Those two photographs have been hanging on that mirror for over 20 years.

To Wait on The Lord

Psalm 130

Homebuilding

Psalm 127

Fearlessness Through Intimacy with The Shepherd

Psalm 27

The Pathway of The Shepherd

Psalm 25

The Lord is My Shepherd

Psalm 23

Boundaries : Raising Kids Who Love the Lord

The Shepherd’s Sacrifice

Psalm 22

The Shepherd’s Delight

Psalm 18

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