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Preserved by Purpose: No Fear in Love
You may be reading this column on or after Valentine’s Day: the lover’s holiday. For some, this day to celebrate and show love is one...
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Dallas Gospel Connection
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
Preserved - Surviving the Storm
It’s been less than week and like so many of you, I am shocked and saddened when I see pictures or videos of the aftermath of the Texas...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Preserved – Following after Righteousness
“Oh Lord! Please don’t let this truck back into me!” A few years ago, these were the words that I kept repeating as I watched...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Preserved – The Year of Doing Things, Afraid (part 2)
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about doing things afraid. I want to continue that discussion this week. By doing things afraid, I...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Preserved by Purpose: First Things First…Revisited: Prayers for the President
Back in 2009, I wrote that regardless of whether you greeted the inauguration of President Barack Obama with great jubilation or fear,...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
Preserved by Purpose: Reaping Your Harvest
Anger. Shock. Awe. Disgust. Fear. Anxiety. Confusion. These are just a few of the sentiments expressed by many after the Jan. 6th...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
Preserved – No More Hypocrisy
Last week, I said that we would spend the next few weeks looking at Doing Things Afraid. This week, we have to deal with what happened...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose – Perfectly Yielded in 2021
I’ll exercise (more). I’ll stop doing ______. I’ll get (more) organized. Sound familiar? At least for me, these are all the usual New...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose – Perfectly Yielded in 2021
I’ll exercise (more). I’ll stop doing ______. I’ll get (more) organized. Sound familiar? At least for me, these are all the usual New...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
FAITH: Encouragement for the Discouraged
By Pastor Anthony L. Scott One of the most memorable stories I can remember while attending Thomas Edison High School was about how the...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Nov 25, 2020
- 1 min
Everybody knows that COVID-19 affected the world in a way that this generation has never seen before
Everybody knows that COVID-19 affected the world in a way that this generation has never seen before. People lost jobs and livelihoods....
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Nov 23, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved– Seeing Through Eyes of Thankfulness
French author Marcel Proust wrote that “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Preserved – Adjusting to God’s Promises
As a child and now as an adult woman, something I always admired about my late Daddy was that he always kept his promises. If he said he...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
Preserved by Purpose: God’s Transition Team
A number of years ago, I wrote about attending a ministry conference where the speaker Dr. Frances Myles brought up the issue of shifts...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose - The Heart of Christianity in an Upside-Down World
The world is upside down. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after watching the news for the last few weeks leading to the Presidential...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose: Becoming a Fruit Inspector
Considering the current chaotic political environment, how do Christians decide who to vote for? It’s not as simple as voting for the...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved – Stop Lying on God…the Remix!
There’s no other way to put it: the Trump presidency has been a chaotic roller coaster ride of racism, sexism, and class warfare. Not...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose: The Power of the Do-Over
Despite the move to all online teaching this semester and the challenges that come with it, I still love my job as a college English...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose – Red Velvet Obedience
A few years ago, I was in a time of prayer and what I thought was a strange request came to my spirit. Make a Red Velvet Cake for a...
Dallas Gospel Connection
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
Preserved by Purpose: The All-American Protest: Christianity and Black Lives
“’Nobody can change the past,’” says my mother. “’Which is why revolutions exist,’” I reply” is a conversation that Alice Walker...