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Unheeded Warning #Nightlight #RTTBROS

The Gorse Fire and the Unheeded Warning

Good morning, friends. I was remembering a story the other day about a town called Bandon, and it really got me thinking about the things we let grow in our lives. It’s a story that doesn't need a lot of fancy words to make its point.

George Bennett, an Irish immigrant, brought a plant called gorse to Bandon back in 1873. It was an ornamental shrub, s...

I am continually with you #Nightlight #RTTBROS

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Scripture: "Nevertheless I am continually with thee." — Psalm 73:23 (KJV)

Reflection: There are nights when the soul feels adrift, clouded by confusion or weighed down by the realization of our own failings. We look at the world around us at the prosperity of the ungodly or the apparent chaos of life and we find ourselves, like Asaph, admitting to a certain heaviness of ...

The Longing #Nightlight #RTTBROS

Longing for the Unseen Home

Hebrews 11:13: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth..”

I was thinking the other day about my own life. I’ve spent a good chunk of time in the school system, and you learn to recognize a place...

The Quiet Ache  #Nightlight #RTTBROS

The Quiet Ache: Finding Community in the Trinity

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him" 1 John 4:16

You know, I’ve seen it in the pews. I’ve seen it in the back of the school bus when the kids are all crammed in, but one boy is staring out the window like he’s on a different plan...

The Letter of Grace #RTTBROS #Nightlight

You know, I was thinking the other day about how things used to be. Before the instant message, before the email that pops up right in your face, before the text that demands an immediate reply. I was thinking about the old-fashioned letter.

If you were writing to someone you loved, maybe a cousin who moved out East, or a friend who was serving overseas, you didn't just send a quick note. Yo...

THE HAND THAT HELD THE NATION

Two Hundred and Fifty Years in the Making

Long before a shot was fired at Lexington, God was moving. Through revivals that awakened the colonial conscience. Through preachers who thundered that liberty is a spiritual thing. Through ordinary men and women who dared to believe that Providence had a hand in the birth of a nation.

When the Revolution came, it was not random. Washington's armies survived impos...

The Strength That Isn't Ours #Nightlight #RTTBROS

Acts 9:20-22 (KJV)

And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt a...

The Anchor Holds #Nightlight #RTTBROS

Be still, and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10)

You know, sometimes the day just piles on. You’ve got the bills, the kids are fighting over the remote, and you feel like you’re just treading water in a big, dark ocean. It’s easy to feel like you’re drifting, isn't it? Like whatever you do, it’s not enough.

Scripture Bridge: But the Bible gives us a promise that holds...

Daily Development #Nightlight #RTTBROS

We often look for God’s big, dramatic moments, the lightning strike, the sudden revelation, the miraculous intervention. And those moments are real, don't get me wrong. But I’ve come to believe that God is just as interested in the quiet, repetitive moments of our lives. He’s the ultimate coach, and He’s the ultimate drill instructor.

Think about an athlete. They don't ge...

Trenton on Christmas Night #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #USA250 #Nation250

“It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:22-23

THE STORY

On Christmas night, 1776, everything was about to end. The Continental Army had been retreating for months. New York had fallen. New Jersey had fallen. Philadelph...

The Pineapples That Weren't Mine #RTTBROS #Nightlight

"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." - Luke 9:23 (KJV)

I heard about an old missionary named Otto Koning who spent years in the jungles of New Guinea trying to reach a village for Christ. To break up the monotony of his diet, he planted a hundred pineapple shoots and waited three long years for them to ripen. The day th...

From Trying To Trusting #Nightlight #RTTBROS

Isaiah 40:31:

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and shall walk, and not faint

At night as the world begins to quiet down, we often find ourselves in a state of exhaustion. We’ve run our race, we’ve faced our battles, and sometimes, we feel utterly drained. We look at the cale...