Category: Life Lessons – Experience
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With Christ in the School of Prayer
There are classes you take and soon forget. Then there are classes that somehow become part of you. With Christ in the School of Prayer was an elective I took in Bible College. The title came from the book by Andrew Murray, but when I look back now, I realize we were learning far more…
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Grace Was There Before I Knew Its Name
Scripture: Philippians 1:6 “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.”— Philippians 1:6 I have been slowly reading The Way of the Pilgrim. It is one of those books I don’t want to hurry through. Sometimes something…
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God Is Still at Work
Scripture: Philippians 1:6 “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.”— Philippians 1:6 I have been slowly reading The Way of the Pilgrim, and today it led me into Philippians. I didn’t get very far before I…
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Life Lessons — Experience
Life happens. Some of what happens in my life is the result of choices I make. Some comes from choices other people make. And sometimes events occur that neither I nor anyone around me chose, yet those events change the choices available to all of us. All of these become part of my experience. But…
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Series: Life LessonsWednesday, August 19, 2026 In my 76 years of living, I have seen a lot of things change. I grew up on a family farm in Mississippi. Family farms were everywhere then. They were not just businesses. They were homes, ways of life, and often something one generation expected to pass along to…
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Life Lessons Wednesday, August 12, 2026 What was your favorite subject in school? I loved history. There is something about the past that speaks to us in the present. I studied American History, Mississippi History, World History, and Ancient History. I even took a course in Church History. History tells us something about how we…
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We Stand on the Shoulders of Someone Who Believed in Us
Saturday, August 8, 2026Pull Up a Rocking Chair Pull up a rocking chair. Let me tell you something I have been thinking about. None of us becomes who we are entirely on our own. We are influenced by music we have heard, books we have read, television shows and movies we have watched, places we…
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God Redeems Our Detours
Life Lessons August 6, 2026 When I answered God’s call to ministry as a teenager, I had no idea where that journey would lead. My experience was limited to small country churches served by faithful pastors who farmed, logged timber, taught school, or worked other jobs during the week. They loved Christ and faithfully served…
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Mysterious Grace
By Roy (Will) Pearson, The Curious Pilgrim Mysterious Grace One of the primary sources of truth I follow is the sacred writings. As a follower of Jesus, I consider the books of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha to be my primary source for understanding life. One of the principles that has…
The Curious Pilgrim 