Healthy vibrancy is the result of pruning! How willing are we to allow ourselves to be pruned by God’s Word?
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Should we try to know God through reason? Absolutely!! Jesus said we should love God with all our minds. And yet, reason alone is not enough. You are more than a mind; you are a spiritual being and your spirit needs to experience God too.
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Do you sometimes feel that your purpose is elusive? Can’t quite figure out why you’re here? God creates. And when He does, He gives purpose and meaning to what He creates. He hasn’t forgotten about you! He will fill your life if you give it to Him.
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Do you ever get tempted like I do to sit on the sidelines because it feels like everyone else can run circles around you? But what if we choose to not let the accomplishments of others intimidate us out of the game? We should give our all no matter how small it seems to us. We just might be surprised with what the Lord can do with it!
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It’s Holy Thursday! Time to reflect on the Last Supper. Is Jesus our Lord and Rabbi? Do we allow Him to teach our intellect, but not allow Him to have a say over how we live our lives? Both are essential, but which disciple never understood this concept?
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Do you find yourself on a constant search, always trying to fill a void? Perhaps you’ve repeatedly had that void filled only to find it empty again. What will fill you up and give you overflowing life?
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Does everything seem to be looking wrong around you? Were you expecting progress and found something quite different? Take a listen for some encouragement.
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When someone sins against you, it feels so stingingly personal. And yet, there is a way to take yourself out of the equation and release them from the debt they “owe” you. Because you belong to God, He takes sins against you personally and the debt others owe is truly a debt to Him.
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“Peace on Earth”? Are you kidding? Has there ever been even a moment when this Earth was at peace? And yet, this is the declaration of the angels to the shepherds. What can they be talking about?
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Are we trying to bear fruit on our own? Perhaps we have all the appearance of fruitfulness, but unless all the good things we are doing are birthed out of a place of true righteousness (righteousness received as a gift from God), all our effort is the fruitless action of self-righteousness.
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Some say that the Israelites could have journeyed to the Promised Land in eleven days. But how is that thinking setting our own faith journey up for failure?
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When I'm on a journey with the Lord, I want to ARRIVE! But He rarely seems as focused on arrival as I am!
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I routinely come across people who are confident that they are "good enough" to get into heaven and others who are confident that goodness doesn't matter. So how good is good enough?
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My life feels turned upside-down at times: nothing makes logical sense and there's no completion in the areas I'm waiting on God for. How can I know that God will let me see that completion I so long for?
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I've talked for the last couple of weeks about our need for knowing the love of God and how our stability and strength are effected by it. This week, let's look at a few other results of knowing we're loved!
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The enemy conveniently leaves out key information when he's tempting Jesus - and it's the same information we forget when we're tempted or hurting!
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Sometimes the simplest answer really is the best one. And though we may think it a platitude, there is valid reason that this simple sounding answer is life-changing. Until we know this answer deep in our hearts, our lives will be in constant battle for stability.
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None of us wants to jump the gun and get out of God's timing. But neither do we want to lag behind and miss out! How can we tell when it's time to wait and when it's time to step out?
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