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WINSDAY WISDOM Session 47 Oh, the Love of Christ!Without beginning.Without ending.Without interruption.Without limits. Relentless. Uncontainable. Inexhaustible. It created a beautiful universe.It gives life.God with us. Oh, the Love of Christ! Sleeps in a stable.Hangs on a cross.Perfumes an empty tomb.Glorifies a heavenly throne. It shines on every face of every raceliving at every pace in everyContinue reading “CHRISTMAS LOVE”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 46 Christmas time can create or invoke precious memories. I can still hear my dad repeatedly singing “White Christmas” to my new baby brother. I even remarked that I thought the little bundle who interrupted my monopoly on Christmas gifts might be getting tired of hearing that song. This Christmas Memory wasContinue reading “CHRISTMAS MEMORIES 1974”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 45 Laugh. Think. Cry. That makes a good day. I try to add a little of all three emotions in our Winsday sessions. Today is reserved for the latter two. (Note: If you need some laughter today, check out session 24 “The Mystery of the Missing Nachos” or session 11 “Listening: IContinue reading “HOPE FOR A SAD HEART”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 44 It was memorable! It was stupid! It was memorably stupid! It was the night I was temporarily blinded by one of the most inspirational illustrations ever performed before a live audience. If you were there, you had never seen anything like it. If you were me doing the illustration, you couldContinue reading “For Your Eyes Only”

REWIND WINSDAY WISDOM Where is the leftover turkey? He is sitting on the couch! That’s me! No Black Friday shopping. No weekend chores. No nothing! Just a big stuffed leftover turkey sitting on the couch sleeping through a TV football game. Most of us have some Thanksgiving traditions. Some traditions have to be altered throughContinue reading “A THANKSGIVING PRAYER”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 42 THE GAME! It’s time! College football has its storied rivalries. Only one is known as “The Game.” It is not the OU-Texas Red River Classic. It is not OU-OSU Bedlam. Not Bama vs. Auburn in the Iron Bowl or LSU at Death Valley. Not Michigan-Ohio State. Not USC-UCLA. It is notContinue reading “THE GAME”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 41 Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers wrote in our country’s Declaration of Independence about our God-given rights “to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” That made me think about God’s promise of happiness to Adam and Eve and their pursuit of that happiness. The promise and pursuit are very similarContinue reading “THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 40 (I borrowed this Winsday intro idea from my pastor, Tim Gibson.) We have a young Boxer dog named Jada. She has worked her way into my heart only because she falls into the Love first and Love most challenge group. This hyper canine has maxed out my tolerance scale. She hasContinue reading “ANXIETY”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 39 I recall an incident from my pre-parental days. I was sitting in my car eating lunch and catching up on some study in the McDonalds’ parking lot. My reading was interrupted by loud arguments from a family exiting the fast-food restaurant. The mother and father were screaming at their crying littleContinue reading “PARENTING”

WINSDAY WISDOM Session 38 That’s right! Mary, Martha, and Silas! Two sisters and a beloved brother, just like the siblings in the Bible. They were older and lived in the same house. None had married. They were godly and loving. I met them when I went into the youth ministry at Sand Springs. They attendedContinue reading “MARY, MARTHA, and…SILAS”