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Manchaca, TX 78652
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Lesson 6: God gently leads in the wilderness. On the way to Colorado we passed the gravesite of Charles Goodnight, perhaps the most famous Texas rancher of the 19th century and “the father of the Texas panhandle.” He pioneered cattle drives on what would be called the...
Lesson 5: Plant yourself by the stream (Psalm 1:3). Doubtless you have heard the old maxim that the three most important factors in real estate are “location, location, and location.” These are also the three key factors in planting a tree that will flourish in a semi arid...
Lesson 4: God gives us just enough. My first funeral that I ever officiated took place in a funeral home. The podium was under a set of pink lights. Those lights combined with my contact lens to make the pages of my worship book and Bible appear blank to me. So, I had to do everything from...
The Wilderness is a place of preparation. Most of us are aware that God took the freed Hebrew slaves to the Promised Land by way of the wilderness. The trip from Egypt to Canaan was normally an eleven day journey but it took forty years! Why the long route? One could argue that this...
Lesson 2: The wilderness is a place of intimacy with God. Though many people often point to the violence found in the Old Testament, I believe that at its core it is a love story. The love story is between God and the people of ancient Israel. It describes a marital relationship (This is...
Lesson 1: God is at home in the wilderness. What surprised me most when I first went to Israel was how rocky and desert like it was. In fact, seventy per cent of Israel is desert. Another word for desert in the Bible can be “wilderness.” The patriarchs Abraham and Sarah, Isaac...
Lesson 7: It is appropriate to move forward with your life David Kessler shares that as he was grieving the loss of his son, a colleague (and fellow loss survivor) said to him, “I know that you are drowning right now. You will keep sinking for a while. There will come a point when...
Lesson 6: There is life after death One of our main tenets as Christians is the confidence in life after death. We see Christ’s own resurrection as a first fruit and guarantee of that life. Paul writes about resurrection in I Corinthians 15 and tells the Philippians that death for...
Lesson 5: Ask a Different Question Three months ago we were in a car wreck as someone ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of us as we were going 70 mph. Fortunately, no one died. We went to the ER and were released hours later. The other driver ended up in the ICU. Our car was totaled...
Lesson 4: Grief comes in wavesElizabeth Kubler Ross wrote a ground breaking book in 1969 where she discussed her working theory on the five stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. It has become fashionable to attack her work - especially the sequential listing of...