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"Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out. "Proverbs 10:9 As soon as it happened, I knew that I'd made a potentially life-threatening mistake. I panicked. My mind raced through all the complications that my patient...
At Uncommen, we never respond to political situations as they are often fueled by both sides of the same bird. But we are impacted by events just as you are; we wanted to offer some perspective and encouragement. When something like a change in the policy of Roe v...
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10: 3-4 NIV Writing these presents me with an...
Galatians 6:9 "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." So it's getting ready to turn a new year, and you're hoping to make this year's resolution stick. You know the one where you take better care of...
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12 Our country just went through the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade...
Genesis 3: 23-24 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the Garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to...
"Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressive and glorious joy." 1 Peter 1:8 NIV This past weekend I watched as my daughter and son-in-law officially started their marriage....
1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." I've heard it said, "Life...
Where are you going? (trying to put the direction in your purpose) How are you supposed to lead if you don’t know where you’re going? Internally Meditates on and prays over God’s Word - This allows his faith to grow and allows for his thoughts, words, and deeds to...
“Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.” Ecclesiastes 4:5 NIV My dad had working hands. They were rough and rugged, callused from a lifetime of work. He started on a farm and never had a job that did not include manual labor. I remember the sound of him rubbing...
II Chronicles 21:20 - "He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings." Imagine going to a funeral of a friend...
“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall fully know, even as I am fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 NIV It’s my wife’s birthday today. I am in the middle of nowhere, sitting in a hotel thinking...