From the Blog
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A Sacrificial Life
We have a perfect example of others-focused self-sacrificial love in the person of Jesus. If your instinct is to climb your way to fulfillment in life, then check this out. Jesus didn’t climb his way to success, descended to success. If you want to follow Jesus, that’s your path too. Paul taught the Philippian church…
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A Surrendered Life
There is a gap in every human heart between what we know is right and what we actually do. We make promises we don’t keep. We set standards we don’t meet. We know what God says, yet we often choose our own way instead. Many people point to hypocrisy in the church, and certainly there…
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The Prophecy
Simeon was waiting for something, longing for the Messiah. Every single person is living in expectation. We chase what we think will console us, but instead of relief we often find more pressure, more disappointment, and more emptiness. What if we are longing for something far greater? What if, like Simeon, we are longing for…
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The Receptive Heart
How are you and God? When’s the last time you asked that question? And how do you even begin to answer it? If we’re honest with ourselves, sometimes we are all over the place with our spiritual life, aren’t we? Why is there such a variation in how we ourselves feel about our spiritual health…
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Doing Life Together
From the very beginning God saw our need for relationship. First the vertical relationship with Him and then the horizontal relationship with one another. We not only do life better together, we are simply built for it. The last year and a half has exposed this reality as well as any other season in recent…
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To Faithfully Respond to Jesus
Will you faithfully respond to the priestly sacrifice of Jesus? And church let me ask you, would you say you’ve had a faithful response to the knowledge and belief that Jesus is the sacrifice for all sins and that he is now your great priest in heaven? Do you know what it means to faithfully…
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The Restored Yes
What if you had your yes on the table–even a radical yes that you had once given God–but then you made mistakes that led you to taking your yes off the table and now you feel distant from God? Maybe you have other relationships that have either become distant or severed because you can’t forgive…
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The Reluctant Yes
What if we’re warming up to the idea of trusting God Himself—not just His plan—with our lives, but then He calls us to do something that we feel unequipped for? Something we don’t feel worthy to do? Something we outright don’t want to do? Many of us hear that calling and get stopped in our…
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Why Hypocrites?
If you talk to a few non-believers, it won’t take you very long to hear something like this: “I don’t go to church because the church is full of hypocrites.” In the apostle John’s first letter, he warned against the hypocrisy of claiming to be a Christ-follower without living according to His teachings. We can…
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Thankful
Do you thank God in all circumstances? Can you thank Him when things are up and also thank and trust Him when things aren’t? It’s easy to be grateful in prosperity, but what of the storm? We need a heart set on gratitude, mind intent on giving God His due praise. In Psalm 100, the…