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Making God Your Strength
Our world is fallen, brittle, dark and difficult to navigate. We wrestle with challenges and attacks on our souls, our families and our communities that can feel like a gut punch and knock the breath and fight out of us. What are we to do? How are we to stand amid the onslaught when our…
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When God Snuck into the Human Race.
The thing that amazes me the most about Christmas is how stealthily God entered the human race. He wasn’t born into an affluent family or in a palace as most kings are, but in a foul-smelling barn, where animals lay amid their excrement and their nasty habits. Mary wasn’t in Labor and Delivery with a…
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We’ve Been Lied To!
We’ve been lied to….life is not always going to do what we want. Things are not going to turn out always as we had hoped. We are going to go through things that are too much for us! In many faith-based circles there is a lie circulating that if you just believe in God, you’ll…
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Breaking Up Fallow Ground
Months ago, our church staff was in a time of prayer. I was on staff at the time (I have since retired), and the Lord spoke this scripture to my heart. “Break up your fallow ground”. I had heard the passage quoted many times, and I turned in my Bible to find it. “Sow for yourselves…
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Because Healing Starts with Truth. Jesus is Truth.
The heart—yours, mine, and ours—is the wellspring of life. The sacred place where God speaks, where love is planted, where purpose takes shape. When we choose to tend it with care, not hiding, not hardening, but opening it fully to the One who formed it —something holy happens. In surrender, He heals. He restores. He…
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Our Sympathetic Savior
Have you ever been misunderstood, misinterpreted, or someone just didn’t get you? We all have. It’s painful and frustrating. We may seek to defend ourselves to try and bring understanding to no avail. We may even wrestle with it for a while wondering what we could have done to help them understand us better. It’s…
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Across the Table
I don’t want to climb a ladderI want to sit across a tableLook into your eyesAnd commune with your heart No desire to scale a mountainBut a garden, cultivateBe fruitful in strength and mercyArms in jubilance with babes Sing into the midnightA lullaby of faithIn God aloneNot my strivingResting in His love, my forever home…
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Where the Real Jesus is Found
The real Jesus may seem elusive, hidden, and unavailable. I believe He is to some people. For years of my life, He was to me. All I had known was religion. You know that thing that tells you what YOU have to do to be good enough for God then He’ll love you and find…
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NEVER LEAVE
Laying here looking up at the ceiling I cannot pray I cannot think All I can do is cry I try I really try And all that comes out is trails and trails of tears He knows where I am When I don’t He knows what I need When I can’t even feel He will…
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YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH
How often have you wrestled with the belief that “you are not enough”? How often do you ruminate about your failures and how you don’t measure up to a task, others, or your own standard? These kinds of thoughts are debilitating to fulfilling your life purpose and walking out the common tasks and expectations of…
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God’s Timing is Perfect!
It absolutely amazes me that God is a God of timing! Although He’s not subject to time, He works within time to fulfill His purposes. There was a “right time” for Jesus to be sent to the earth. Although He existed in eternity, God’s wisdom sent Him at just the right time. He was not…
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Childhood Memories of Advent
For as long as I can remember back, as a child, our family observed Advent: the preparation of the days leading up to the celebration of Christmas; Christ’s birth. An advent wreath was in the center of our dining room table from the beginning of December through Christmas Day. We would light the candles as…
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