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(052) Trust Without Understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your...

Invested Stories - Ray
Jan 25, 20243 min read


(051) Abundance & Lack
God is the God of abundance. Why is it that we always seem to focus on our lack?

Invested Stories - Ray
Jan 4, 20243 min read


(050) Ordinary People
God both comes for and uses ordinary people to do his magnificent and glorious work in the world.

Invested Stories - Ray
Dec 13, 20233 min read


(049) Trustworthy And True
But, even with all of this, 2023 has been and will always be a very special year in my walk with God.

Invested Stories - Ray
Dec 1, 20233 min read


(048) Trust Jesus
Whether self-inflicted, induced by others, or God's redirection, it is in the context of trials that God works to draw us closer to Himself.

Invested Stories - Ray
Nov 14, 20233 min read


(047) Glory Revealed – Your Gifts
Unfortunately for most of us our gifts are hidden in plain sight. Our gifts have been given to us but we fail to recognize and use them.

Invested Stories - Ray
Oct 11, 20233 min read


(046) Fear & Hope
Our lives are bombarded by fear and speculation. Hope is the antidote and we can have it. But, we must choose it.

Invested Stories - Ray
Sep 12, 20235 min read


(045) In Your Own Head 24-7
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make...

Invested Stories - Ray
Jul 23, 20238 min read


(044) To Be Or Not To Be
Shakespeare had it right. The primary question we face in life is a simple one ... It may be THE fundamental God question.

Invested Stories - Ray
Jun 14, 20235 min read


(043) Balance II
You are feeling the pressure to respond to the school shootings and other acts of violence that show up daily in the news and rightly so.

Invested Stories - Ray
Apr 12, 20235 min read


(042) Escaping Expectation
New perspectives are disruptive. They require us to move and are almost always painful.

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Feb 10, 20234 min read


(041) True Freedom
Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock once recalled a performance in Germany with the legendary jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis.

Invested Stories - Ray
Dec 15, 20222 min read


(040) Seeing Wind
I experienced my first hurricane last week. Not only a hurricane but the “dirty” side of one.

Invested Stories - Ray
Oct 3, 20224 min read


(039) The Opposition
Every movement toward God will be opposed.
You know this.

Invested Stories - Ray
Aug 10, 20224 min read


(038) Purpose
Have you ever thought about your purpose?
Of course you have. We all do.

Invested Stories - Ray
Jul 3, 20224 min read


(037) Scallop Shells And Love
walk on the beach many evenings and some mornings each week and, for the last few weeks, God has been giving me scallop shells.

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May 5, 20226 min read


(036) Expectation vs Expectancy
In the fall of 2019 Jesus gave me three words that have been a mighty rescue over the last two years ...

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Dec 19, 20214 min read


(035) Comfort, Suffering and Thanksgiving
Comfort and suffering. One to be embraced and the other to be escaped. However, Paul connects them. The two are inseparably linked in Jesus.

Invested Stories - Ray
Nov 23, 20214 min read


(034) A Hard Word
The tragedy in Afghanistan has taken on way too many dimensions ...

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Sep 8, 20214 min read


(033) The Mind of Christ … Just Ask
It was right before Christmas of last year (2020) when I posted last ... eight months! Much has occurred since then.

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Aug 13, 20213 min read
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