Author: Paul Merrill

Digital marketing pro and shiny bits of life observer
by Paul Merrill

Hope.

Hope is the best way to live and breathe. Hope is also the name of Jon and Nancy’s daughter, but you knew that already. (And there’s a great story behind her name.) Hope is big in the Bible. Something close to 189 mentions of the word turned up when I did a search. The strongest […]

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by Paul Merrill

God does not do things the way you do

God often uses ways totally different from the ways humans normally operate. John was a prophet who came before Jesus and prepared the way for him. Yet if he were alive today and living his normal life, most Christians would categorize him as mentally ill and homeless. “For food he ate locusts and wild honey.” […]

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God might be calling

Jesus called his first followers in Matthew 4:18-22. Two guys were fishing. They left their nets and followed Jesus right away. The second two guys were also fishermen. They were in a boat with their dad repairing their nets. When Jesus called, “they immediately followed him…” They even left their dad sitting in the boat. […]

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Change

“I lost the ability to worship God.” I said that to three close friends ten years ago, and it was true until very recently. Worshipping God can take many forms, but I was referring to the “in church” variety – singing along with songs that are meant to focus on God. My wife Heather and […]

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by Paul Merrill

More ways to read the Bible

Read it slow. Many books require chewing on the words to let the meaning soak in. See 1 Thessalonians. Read it fast. Buy a Bible designed to let you read it all in a year with sections for each of the 365 days. Or go to ewordtoday.com, which has charts to let you read it […]

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