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Developing Healthy Prayer Lives
Posted on March 20, 2018 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.There’s probably not anything more vital to our health than breathing. Breathing draws oxygen into our lungs and expels carbon dioxide. It enables our bodies to function and supports social interaction. A gasp is but an abrupt inhalation of surprise. Our speech rides the winds of exhalation. Breathing is necessary to life’s existence and its […]
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If You Had One Wish
Posted on October 2, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I try to visit her once a week. Sometimes I have to hunt for her. If she’s not in her room, I try the dining area or maybe the chapel if there’s an event. On one particularly nice day I found her outside, sitting in her wheelchair, a young speech therapist at her side. […]
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Six Symptoms of Spiritual Heart Failure
Posted on September 8, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I was on the tennis court, ready to receive serve, when I felt dizzy. The next thing I hear is the staticky radio voices of emergency personnel as I am being wheeled on a gurney to the waiting ambulance. That set me on an unplanned crash course on heart disease that included knowing symptoms of […]
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Refusing to be Encouraged
Posted on April 24, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.You know how some people can’t take a compliment? You tell them “great job,” but they deflect the praise or explain it away. Some more pious folks will immediately point to God and say that it’s all of God. No it’s not. Sure, we are to cast down our golden crowns before God in recognition […]
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Fig-uring Out Christ’s Concern for His Father’s House
Posted on April 14, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.(This is the second of two articles related to Jesus’ teaching in Mark 11 that His Father’s house is to be a house of prayer. Click here for the first article. For more on the church as a house of prayer see Stanley D Gale, “God’s House of Prayer – Extreme Makeover Edition.”) “For it […]
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A House of Prayer is not the same as a Place of Prayer
Posted on April 10, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.(This is the first of two articles related to Jesus’ teaching in Mark 11 that His Father’s house is to be a house of prayer. For more on the church as a house of prayer see Stanley D Gale, “God’s House of Prayer – Extreme Makeover Edition.”) I sat toward the back of the rows […]
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Psalm 143 as a Template for Prayer in Temptation’s Hour
Posted on February 17, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.The psalms are wonderful guides for our prayer. What besetting sin have you fallen into again—overspending, pornography, alcohol, gambling, gluttony? Psalms 51 or Psalm 32 could provide a template for your prayer, leading you in confession of your sin. Another prospect would be to employ Psalm 143 to take you by the hand and lead […]
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Crash-Proof Ministry
Posted on December 2, 2016 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.On Monday a passenger jet took off from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, headed to Medellin, Colombia. It never made it. It crashed eight miles short of the airport killing 71 people aboard, including members of a soccer team from Brazil headed to Medellin for participation in the finals of a soccer tournament. The reason for […]
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Operation Expectant Prayer
Posted on April 18, 2016 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I was only in my early 40’s but the x-ray revealed arthritis developing in both of my shoulders. That explained the pain when I extended my arms above my head. It was disturbing for someone who enjoyed planning tennis. I refused to allow the interloper the upper hand. Rather than allow pain to limit […]
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A Revolutionary Prayer
Posted on October 26, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.The Copernican Revolution refers to the radial reorientation of thought that the earth was not the center of our solar system. Prior to Copernicus the sun and planets were believed to revolve around the earth. But a heliocentric model reflects reality. Our realities need a similar revolution. We can think that the world revolves […]
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