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Abundant Fruitfulness

How do we measure Spiritual Growth in our lives? How can we tell we are making progress, when sometimes we feel like we’re fallingback?  There is an answer to that question right in the Book of 2 Peter, chapter 1. 5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence,and […]

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A Hilarious Giver

You are the Master and Lord of my heart, and I am asking You to change me and make me a more cheerful giver.

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When the rain is still present

God doesn’t wait for us to be through our trials and tribulations to remind us of His faithfulness and promises. He reminds us right in the middle of the storms.

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All kinds of Wonderful

We are all kinds of messed up in this world, but God is all kinds of Wonderful. There is no sin He cannot forgive, no kind of failure that He cannot redeem.

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The Miracle of Tears and Redemption

I caught a tear from my eye this morning as it began to meander down my cheek. Soon I began to wonder about the purpose of tears.  Why do we have them? What purpose do they serve? My search took me to the phrase I heard a friend utter the other week. “This life is […]

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The Understory

But we all have Understories, deeper layers where some things are tangled up, and we are reaching out, seeking light for those dark places of pain and confusion.

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Dusty Trails

We are still finding ourselves as sheep among wolves and that dust is still mercilessly clinging to our feet.

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THE DOMAIN OF DARKNESS

We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. 11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious […]

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Taking Life as He comes

17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. (2 Cor. 4:17 HCSB)

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Coming up from behind

Lile a Master Designer, God is always creating new things we cannot see yet.

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Jesus the Good Shepherd

Have you ever noticed how much a question mark looks like a Shepherd’s Staff? I was in a Bible a Bible study the other day about questions in the Bible, and it just

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Those Pesky Thorns

Thorns have been with us since the fall of Creation. The Scriptures tell us this in Genesis.

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That Confusing Saturday

I can’t imagine how depressed those disciples must have felt when they awoke to the reality of Saturday morning. The day after

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More than these

Growing up with several siblings can make you feel like you have fallen through the cracks. This creates in you a desire t

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Kisses from God: When God is in the waiting

Don’t you just love God moments? Those moments that are like little kisses from God, the little moments that He chooses to give us to show .

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When God Throat Punches You, Count It Joy. Says God.

I have been absolutely mesmerized by the recent pictures of the Volcanic eruptions in Hawaii. How often do we think about the power beneath every step we take each day?  The Earth’s Outer core is liquid rock, moving freely beneath us each day, while its innermost core is solid, composed of an iron-nickel alloy (Wikipedia). […]