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01/25/2026

Good afternoon friends and neighbors!!! Just wanted to post a PSA about Fort Loramie Dental Center for tomorrow, Monday January 26th.
Based on snow accumulation and the distance that many people drive to see us , we have decided to close the office tomorrow. Hopefully the snow removal folks can get us all straightened out so we can resume our normal schedule on Tuesday January 27th.
Take care and be safe!
God bless!!!

10/24/2024

“There are no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or fortune-tellers who can reveal the king’s secret. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the future. Now I will tell you your dream and the visions you saw as you lay on your bed.”

Daniel 2:27-28 (NLT)

Over the last few days in these devotionals, I’ve shown you what Daniel did when facing an impossible situation. The king had asked for someone to interpret an unusual dream. The king’s wise men couldn’t explain the meaning of the dream and that almost got them killed.

The stakes were high! But Daniel followed a biblical process that can help us too: Don’t panic, and then get the facts. Ask for more time. Gather prayer partners. Ask God for supernatural help. Worship God. And, use what you’ve learned to save others.

We also see that when God revealed truth, Daniel used the opportunity to point others to God.

The Bible says Daniel told the king, “There are no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or fortune-tellers who can reveal the king’s secret. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the future. Now I will tell you your dream and the visions you saw as you lay on your bed” (Daniel 2:27-28 NLT).

Daniel didn’t take credit for the amazing answer to the king’s dream. He knew God had given him the answer. So he was honest about that.

I don’t know about you, but if I were a 17-year-old boy and I did something to make the king happy, I’d be tempted to take a bit of the credit. Daniel did the praying. He did the listening. He did the obeying.

Couldn’t he have taken some credit? He could have, but he didn’t. Instead he made sure people knew that God was the one who had the power to deliver them.

God will do great things through a person who doesn’t care who gets the credit.

The Bible says the pagan king told Daniel, “Truly, your God is the greatest of gods, the Lord over kings, a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this secret” (Daniel 2:47 NLT).

How about that? A pagan leader acknowledged the true Creator of the universe.

When you spend your life pointing people to God, miracles happen.

Rick Warren

10/21/2024

“‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’”

Jeremiah 33:3 (MSG)

When you’re put in an impossible situation, your talent, logic, and education won’t solve your problem.

Only God can.

That’s why you pray and ask God for his supernatural help. God told Jeremiah, who lived at the same time as Daniel and knew what was happening in Babylon, “‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own” (Jeremiah 33:3 MSG). God wants to help you!

Daniel asked God for spiritual wisdom when King Nebuchadnezzar asked him to interpret a dream.

Daniel needed the Lord to show him what he would never be able figure out on his own. He could guess for a thousand years and never figure out the king’s dream. But God could tell him in an instant.

The Bible says, “You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it” (James 4:2 GNT).

So many times we miss out on God’s best simply because we never ask him for it.

I’ve seen God do this over and over again in my life. I’ve faced big odds that I couldn’t fathom solving on my own. So I prayed.

And God has answered. My life is a series of answered prayers, and I want God to do the same for you.

You can ask God for his best for your life! God never shuts his storehouse until we shut our mouths. Start praying and asking God for help—and expect him to answer.

That’s called praying in faith. James 1:5-6 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt” (NIV).

Daniel believed he could interpret the king’s dream—but only with God’s help. So he asked God for it and expected him to answer.

When you show that kind of faith, God will generously give you what you need to do the impossible.

RICK WARREN

10/17/2024

“Wise men and women are always learning, always listening for fresh insights.”

Proverbs 18:15 (MSG)

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ essentially means being a student of Jesus Christ. The term “disciple” comes from a Latin word that means “student, learner, or follower.” God wants you to study and be a student as you follow Jesus. You should always be learning!

“Do yourself a favor and learn all you can; then remember what you learn and you will prosper” (Proverbs 19:8 GNT).

Success in life is tied to learning. If you want to succeed in a certain area of your life, then you must become a student in that area. You must always be learning something new.

As you study, it’s crucial to understand the difference between wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge is information gained from education or experience. The more you know, the better equipped you are to handle life’s challenges.

Wisdom, however, is seeing and responding from God’s viewpoint. Wisdom means seeing your relationships, finances, and career from God’s perspective and responding accordingly. You can acquire knowledge from books, but wisdom comes from God.

God is the source of true wisdom.

With wisdom, you begin to understand the meaning of things. Many educated individuals still grapple with fundamental questions like, “Who am I? What’s the meaning of my life?” These questions are not answered by knowledge but by wisdom—by listening to God.

If you want to become a great learner, then you must become a great listener. When you’re talking, you’re not learning. When you listen, you learn.

That means that one of the most crucial skills you need is listening. There are books and courses on improving listening skills. Parents, teaching your children the art of listening is one of the best gifts you can give them because the best listeners are the best learners.

The Bible instructs in 2 Timothy 2:15, “Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth” (AMP).

Maybe you weren’t a great student or you never really enjoyed being in school. That doesn’t mean you can’t learn new things! God wants you to learn more about the things that he has made you to do and that serve his purpose.

Start by listening to people in your life who have walked with God and grown in wisdom. Do your best to learn from them so you can also grow in wisdom and truth.

RICK WARREN

09/25/2024

“In all things God works for the good of those who love him.”

Romans 8:28 (NIV)

Everything God does is for your good, and he does it because he loves you. The Bible says, “All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful” (Psalm 25:10 NIV), and “In all things God works for the good of those who love him” (Romans 8:28 NIV).

You have to remind yourself of these truths again and again because any time God says “no” to your prayers, Satan will shoot darts of doubt at you. He’s going to whisper lies to you: “God doesn’t love you. He doesn’t care about you; otherwise, he’d give you everything you want!” But Satan is a liar.

You don’t have to understand God’s answer to your prayer to know it’s motivated by love.

God loves you too much to give you everything you ask for. So when God says “no,” you’ve got three options: You can resist it, resent it, or relax in it.

You can resist God. You can fight him, get mad at him, turn your back on him, and say, “Okay, God, if you don’t play the game my way, I’m going to take matters into my own hands.” I’ve met a lot of people who walked away from God because God said “no” to their prayers. They didn’t trust that he had a bigger perspective, a better plan, and a greater purpose.

Those people walked away from God in resentment and rebellion. That’s the second thing you can do—you can resent it. When you doubt God’s love like that, it makes you bitter and miserable. So many people have lived their entire lives in misery because they’ve never accepted the fact that God only does what’s good in their lives.

There is a third way to respond to God’s goodness: You can relax in it. When you believe that God always has your best interest at heart, you can look with new eyes at the things he does that don’t make sense.

You may not understand it. It may even be painful. But God is still good and loving. And he will never stop loving you. You can say, “Even in this, God’s love still remains.”

That’s the only kind of response that will bring you peace! Don’t resist or resent God’s work in your life. Instead, relax in the truth that he always works for your good.

Rick Warren

09/23/2024

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

James 1:17 (NIV)

It’s been said that the attitude you have for the day is set in the first eight minutes of your day. Do you want to grumble, gripe, and grunt your way through the day, or do you want to be grateful?

The Bible says, “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17 NIV).

Gratitude gets you to focus on your loving Father who meets all your needs.

Don’t start your day with requests or confessions. Start with gratitude. Think about God and his goodness. Tell him he’s a good Father, thanking him for being caring, close, and consistent. List the ways he’s been good to you. Tell him what you’re thankful for: running water, loving relationships, a bed and a blanket, a tree that offers shade, or a warm house when it’s cold outside. You don’t have to worry about the right thing to say. Just say what you feel and what’s on your mind.

One way you can start your day with thankfulness is by making a playlist of songs. Choose songs of gratitude that remind you of who God is and what he has done for you. Turn it on as soon as you open your eyes so your first thoughts are grateful ones. Worship is the best way to wake up!

You can also make a list of the things you’re thankful for and keep it near your bed or wherever you have a quiet time. A gratitude list can help keep you focused on God’s goodness, and then you can pour out your heart to him in thanks.

When you wake every morning, make sure the first thing you’re doing is thanking God for his consistent love and recalling all the ways that he’s good to you.

Get up with gratitude. It will change everything about your day!

Rick Warren

09/18/2024

“‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.’”

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)

There probably have been many times that you’ve prayed for something and God didn’t answer the way you wanted, or you feel like he didn’t answer at all.

Does that mean prayer doesn’t work? No, you’ve seen it work too many times. Does it mean God isn’t good? No, God is good, whether you’re in pain or not. Does it mean you should give up on prayer? No! God is not a vending machine, and prayer is not a painkiller. He has not guaranteed us a pain-free life.

When you’re in pain and you pray but don’t see the answers, don’t give up. Your job is to keep praying and keep trusting God because you know that everything he allows in your life, he will use for good. God is a good, good Father, even when you’re in pain.

If a doctor cuts you open during surgery, that’s going to cause some pain. But if that surgery saves your life, you wouldn’t say the doctor was bad; you’d recognize that the painful work saved your life.

When God doesn’t immediately end your pain, he is saying to you in that moment, “This pain may feel like too much. But my grace is sufficient for you.”

I’ve had a lot of pain in my life. But almost everything I’ve learned in my life, I’ve learned through pain. That’s because God is more interested in making me a man of character than he is in making me comfortable. God is more interested in making you a man or woman of character than he is in making you comfortable. If you never had any pain or difficulty in your life, you would never grow to maturity. You don’t know God is all you need until God is all you’ve got.

“‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT).

God wants good for your life, even more than you do. Will you trust him?

RICK WARREN

09/17/2024

“Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else?”

Romans 8:32 (NLT)

Because God is always good, he puts your good even above his own.

This is the Good News—that the King sacrifices himself for his people. In fairy tales, everybody dies for the king and protects the king at all costs. There’s only one story in the world where the King dies for his people. It’s called the Gospel.

Christianity is marked by a unique storyline, different from every other religion in the world. God says you’ve sinned and deserve punishment. But that’s not the end of the story. Hope is found in Romans 6:23, where the Bible says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (NIV).

This means that, because God is just, somebody must pay for your sin. But because he is a good and holy God and he loves you, he made a plan to save you. He came to earth as the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and died for your sins. This is the ultimate expression of love—the King dying for his people, the Shepherd dying for his sheep.

Nobody has ever offered to pay for your sins—except God. Jesus didn’t die on the cross because of the Roman government. He died because of love. He loved you so much that he was willing to die for you because he is good and merciful.

What God did for you at the cross makes prayer possible.

“Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?” (Romans 8:32 NLT)

When Jesus Christ died for you on the cross, he solved your biggest problem. Any other problem you have in your life is small to him! Nothing is too big for God. But also, nothing you care about is too small to talk to him about.

There is nothing you can’t bring to God in prayer. He loved you enough to die for you, and he loves you enough to answer your prayers.

Rick Warren

09/13/2024

“The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.”

Psalm 103:13 (NLT)

God loves for you to talk to him about anything. Whatever you’re interested in, God is interested in it too. He wants you to talk to him about your interests for three reasons.

God loves you. You exist because God wants to love you. It’s the reason you’re alive! When you love someone, you’re interested in what they’re interested in. There are many things I’ve become interested in because my wife is interested in them—because I love her. God feels the same way about you, but a thousand times more.

God gave you those interests. You know all those hobbies and sports and all the things you like to do? You got those desires from your Creator. He wired you with them, which means he knows what you’re interested in more than you do. He loves you, and he delights to see you enjoy the things he made you to love.

God enjoys talking with his children. He is your Father. Parents are interested in what their kids are interested in. Are you ever bored while you’re praying? If you are, that’s because you’re talking about stuff that you think you should talk about, not what you’re actually interested in. God is a good Father, and he’s interested in what you are interested in.

The Bible says it like this: “The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him” (Psalm 103:13 NLT).

If you’re a parent, did you wait until your kids could talk in order to start loving them? Of course not. You loved them deeply, even before they were born or said a word. Whether you ever talk to God in prayer or not, he loves you deeply, just like a parent loves a child even before they can talk.

But as children begin to grow, parents desire to have a conversation with them. You want to know what they’re thinking and feeling and share their burdens and joys. You want to delight in their interests and hear their perspective.

That’s the kind of relationship God wants to have with you. He loves you, whether or not you communicate with him. But he longs for the day that you grow up and talk to him about the stuff that’s important to you.

RICK WARREN

09/12/2024

“I want us to help each other with the faith we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you.”

Romans 1:12 (NCV)

You cannot grow to spiritual maturity by yourself. You can try it, but you’re going to be lonely, weak, and spiritually stunted. But the more you involve other people in your life who are strong in the Lord, the more you will grow in spiritual maturity.

Spiritual growth is relational. We’re better together!

The Bible says, “I want us to help each other with the faith we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you” (Romans 1:12 NCV).

There are 56 “one another” commands in the Bible that you cannot obey unless you’re in a small group. Love one another. Care for one another. Help one another. Encourage one another. Pray for one another. Share with one another.

God wired you so that you have to be connected in his family in order to grow.

The number one thing God wants you to learn in life is how to love him and other people. The very reason you might not want to be in a small group is the very reason you need to be in a small group. You might think, “But there might be some people who disagree with me or people who are irritable.” You need those people! You need people in your life who think differently from you, who challenge your self-centeredness, and who teach you to be generous and think of others.

Some people never grow up. They’re stuck thinking it’s all about “me”—“my” schedule, needs, problems, and priorities. Often, those are the people who refuse to open themselves up to being in community. But if the whole point of life is to learn to love, then you’ve got to push yourself out of your comfort zone and into a group of people who will support and encourage you to fulfill your purpose.

We only grow in community.

“Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more” (Hebrews 10:24-25 GNT).

RICK WARREN

09/10/2024

“The message of his grace . . . is able to build you up and give you the blessings God has for all his people.”

Acts 20:32 (GNT)

The Bible is your soul food. When you feed on the Word of God, you grow. You can’t be physically healthy if you eat junk food all the time. In the same way, you can’t be spiritually healthy unless you feed on the truth of God’s Word.

Would you like to have all the blessings that God has for you? Of course you would! I want that for you too.

How do you get those blessings? They’re a direct result of spiritual maturity. The Bible says, “The message of his grace . . . is able to build you up and give you the blessings God has for all his people” (Acts 20:32 GNT).

What does it mean for the message of God’s grace to build you up and give you blessings? It means that, when you grow in spiritual maturity, God can give you all the blessings he has for you. There are some gifts you can’t give young children because they aren’t mature enough for them yet. In the same way, there are some gifts God wants to give you, but he’s waiting for you to grow up.

You can actually use your hand to help you remember how to use the Bible to grow in spiritual maturity. You feed on the Word of God by doing six things: You hear God’s Word—that’s your pinky finger. You read it—that’s your ring finger. You study it—that’s your middle finger. You memorize it—that’s your pointer finger. Then, you meditate on it—that’s your thumb. Your palm represents applying God’s Word.

It’s important to do all six of those things as you feed on God’s Word.

Think of it this way: If the only spiritual input you get is hearing the Word of God at church, then you won’t have a very strong understanding of it—just like you can’t have a very strong grip with just your pinky finger. In fact, some studies suggest we forget as much as 95 percent of everything we hear within 72 hours! If the only exposure you have to God’s Word is hearing it at church, then Satan will be able to steal your joy pretty easily.

But if you hear the Word of God and then you read it every day, you’ve got a better grip. Satan can’t pull it away from you as quickly. Then if you hear it and read it and study it, then you’ve got an even stronger grip.

When you do all six things—hear, read, study, memorize, meditate on, and apply it—you’ll have a firm, strong grip on God’s Word. No one will be able to take it away from you. And you’ll find yourself growing toward spiritual maturity and receiving the blessings that come with it.

Rick Warren

09/09/2024

“[God] has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn’t hold people’s faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others.”

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (GW)

When you want to repair a relationship where there is conflict, you want to focus on reconciliation, not resolution.

There’s a big difference! Reconciliation means reestablishing the relationship. It doesn’t mean you’ll remarry your ex or become best friends with someone who hurt you; it just means you’re at peace with each other.

Resolution means you resolve every disagreement, and that just isn’t going to happen most of the time. Because the truth is, there are some things in your marriage, your friendships, and your work relationships that you’re just never going to agree on, because we’re all different.

But you can disagree without being disagreeable. That’s called maturity. That’s called wisdom. That’s called being like Jesus Christ.

We can have unity without uniformity. We can walk hand in hand without seeing eye to eye. My wife Kay and I have been married for more than 50 years, and we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. But we walk hand in hand and support each other. We are at peace.

Here’s what I’ve learned from counseling marriages: If you focus on restoring your relationship, oftentimes the issue becomes insignificant. How many of your biggest arguments were over the smallest things? They weren’t really about that. You need to get back to focusing on the relationship.

I challenge you as a believer to commit to becoming an agent of reconciliation in a world filled with conflict. Become a bridge builder, not a wall builder. Look for ways to bring people together rather than tear them up.

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, “[God] has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn’t hold people’s faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others” (GW).

If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you have a ministry of reconciliation. It’s your job to go out in society and say, “God’s done everything to put you back in fellowship with him. You don’t have to be his enemy. He’s not mad at you; he’s mad about you. Be reconciled to God. Be at peace with God. Then spread that peace with everybody else.”

Your ministry of reconciliation starts in your own relationships, as you look to God for his grace and courage to extend it to others.

Rick Warren

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