Renew

By Dwayne Hicks | November 6, 2018 |

When I come across a word that jumps from the pages of scripture, I will “dig deeper” into that particular word to further understand it’s meaning in the particular scripture. This morning I came across the word restore, and the word renew. I felt like they were possibly synonyms for each other. The word restore…

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Standard or Upgrade

By Dwayne Hicks | May 24, 2017 |

  When buying a car, you can get the standard features or you can get the upgrade. The upgrade always cost more. When building a house or simple remodeling a kitchen, there are standard features you can buy, then there are upgrades. I guess standard is the starting point or the average. In our country,…

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Stages Of The Journey

By Dwayne Hicks | December 16, 2015 |

Sometimes when I reflect back on my life’s journey I see different stages of my life. The things that I was working through in each of those stages look so different from this stage of my life than they did at the time I was in that particular stage. For example, when my first son…

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Return & Revisit

By Dwayne Hicks | August 7, 2015 |

I remember my parents taking our family back to some of the places we lived when we were growing up. There were some incidents that happened at some of the places and these incidents didn’t necessarily define me, but they were markers along the way of life as a kid. I remember going to the…

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