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Use your gazers well

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Steve Simms

When you continually graze on negative thoughts, feelings, words, and images, you crowd joy out of your life. Seeing people who disagree with you as a continual threat is a powerful way to keep yourself stressed out. Raise your eyes … Continue reading →

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Looking & behaving like Christians (making faith real)

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Steve Simms

Church is too often like a car salesperson who lectures people about his vehicles, but doesn’t let anybody drive them. Many Christians have never been trained how to interact with the living Jesus thru out the week and don’t know … Continue reading →

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Life without a clear focus can become like a circus

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Steve Simms

Little done with focus is usually far more powerful than much done like a circus. Focus is powerful. What you continually pay attention to will mold you into its image. We American Christians need to look beyond politics and reject … Continue reading →

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If human lives don’t matter . . .

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Steve Simms

If human lives don’t matter, nothing matters and life is meaningless. The human race does indeed matter — people of every shade of skin, from the womb to the tomb. If all lives matter to you, then the pain blacks … Continue reading →

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Perceiving God

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Steve Simms

Without depth perception we spend our life, caught up in shallow superficialities. The fact that you’re aware of your thoughts shows you can perceive intangibles. You can use that ability to hear the living God. Positive, helpful, and creative ideas … Continue reading →

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My paraphrase of the Beatitudes & Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5:3-20)

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Steve Simms

The kingdom (government) of God reigns in humble human hearts as they submit to and obey the risen Jesus instead of self. The grief of pain and loss will turn into a blessing, if we allow it to draw us … Continue reading →

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Color or colour or kolor or kolour?

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Steve Simms

Color, colour, kolor, kolour — no matter how you spell it, it’s a silly way to evaluate human beings. We, us, our, ours! None of us is better or worse, more or less, intelligent or unintelligent, because of our skin … Continue reading →

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Self-think & kindly use your freedom of speech

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Steve Simms

The next time you want to put people in their place, honor them as being made in the image of the living God (even if you disagree with them). When I look at nature, I see marvelous acts of precision … Continue reading →

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Human insignificance is a destructive idea

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Steve Simms

Concerning the matter of lives, to disrespect any human life in any phase, is to disrespect all human life and the Creator of humanity. It saddens me to hear of any human life being taken, whether by police, gang members, … Continue reading →

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Pompous like a king

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Steve Simms

Pride rides,Pompous like a king,But it’s such an empty thing,A meaningless fling. The humble can honestly be who they really are. The haughty have to keep up their hype. Pompous people seldom laugh if they’re not either intoxicated or insulting … Continue reading →

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