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AS THE DEER by Joe King As the deer pants for the water, I the Lord long after you You my child are my heart’s desire and I long to be with you. How we talked when our love was new But these past years our words grew few. I’m your father and you’re my child, come sit with me a while. You’ve been busy,…

Between my freshman and sophmore years in college, the chairman of the music department changed, and, since I was studying music at the time, I cared! It ended up being good, however. The professor who was there before was one of the godliest men I ever met, but he was also very intimidating. The very…

I’ll never remember my first date with Kathy. We were supposed to go to a ballgame together and she stood me up. I’ll never forget going to the ballfield with such great anticipation and walking back to my dorm room . . . Mad! Praise the Lord, I got some wise counsel from a good friend and I asked her…

Kathy and I met my freshmen year in college. I still remember our first date: October 9, 1977. That was a life-changing day for me. Somehow I just knew when that first date was over that she was the person for me. Over the next two years we were in college together, but since she was a couple of years…

INTIMACY When we pray, we often get caught up in asking for things and fail to enter into intimacy with God. Real intimacy can only happen when we drop our pretense and open ourselves up to knowing God and stop hiding from him. In his book Intentional Disciplemaking, Ron Bennett writes, “Intimacy with…

Source: /So, You Want To Be Like Christ by Swindoll: Page 20 Intimacy is the state of being intimate belonging to r characterizing one's deepest nature. Intimacy is marked by a very close association, contact, or familiarity. Relationally, intimacy is a warm and satisfying friendship developing through…

"I listen, open to anything else he might want to say. For I've also learned this: sometimes God wants to speak to me about something entirely different than the question I'm asking. If I don't get an answer on the subject I've raised, I may need to ask a different question. You'll find this very helpful…

The manager of a large office noticed a new man one day and told him to come into his office. "What's your name?" he asked the new guy. "John," the new guy replied. The manager scowled, "Look, I don't know what kind of place you worked before, but I don't call anyone by their first name. It breeds familiarity…