If you have never received a spam call or a spam email, then you don’t have a phone or an email address. That’s how rampant these messages are. Common spam calls have alerted listeners to the need to …
Valued By God (YOU-Win’23, Special Focus Study)
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was shot dead in Sanford, Florida, by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Trayvon, who was Black, was walking home from a store when …
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PUTTING FEAR IN ITS PLACE: Joy in the Place of Fear (YOU-Win’23, Study 1, Session 6)
Nelson Mandela’s release after 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa for fighting against apartheid, was perhaps the most memorable image of the end of apartheid. Apartheid, much like Jim Crow in …
PUTTING FEAR IN ITS PLACE: Courage in the Place of Fear (YOU-Win’23, Study 1, Session 5)
Some years ago, I chaperoned some students on a team-building excursion. One exercise involved standing on top of a thirty-foot pole and jumping to catch a trapeze bar. Of course, we would be …
PUTTING FEAR IN ITS PLACE: Submission to God in the Place of Fear (YOU-Win’23, Study 1, Session 4)
Let’s get rid of one mistaken idea about older adults: They don’t like change. The rationale has been that they don’t like change because they’re older and, therefore, set in their ways. But the truth …
PUTTING FEAR IN ITS PLACE: Love in the Place of Fear (YOU-Win’23, Study 1, Session 3)
One of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. It is a time to reflect on all God’s blessings, especially His provisions. But I also enjoy Thanksgiving for football, and of course, good food! The …