From the Blog
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Life Together
How are you doing in the area of connection? Are you lonely? We are more digitally connected today than ever, but lack true togetherness. When faced with this rampant problem, the Holy Spirit has a solution: coming together! We are social beings, created by God to live life together. In the book of Acts, the…
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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” is one of the best-known hymns by Martin Luther, who wrote the words and composed the melody sometime between 1527 and 1529. It has been translated into English at least seventy times and into many other languages. It has been called the “Battle Hymn of the Reformation” for the…
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It Is Well
“It Is Well with My Soul” is a hymn written by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. Spafford was a lawyer and a senior partner in a large law firm. The Spaffords were supporters and friends of evangelist Dwight L. Moody. First published in 1876, it is possibly the most influential and enduring…
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Freedom over Rules
True freedom is something we all hunger for. A student longs to be free of instruction, a teenager longs to be free of their parents, a debtor longs to be free of their debt, and we all long for the freedom to live our lives the best way we know how. Our country was founded…
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Hope Remains
Fear has the same power over the mind and body, but equal and opposite to hope. What are you afraid of? What fears have caused you to be stuck in the mud, what fears have caused you to lose hope? One of the most common fears is simply the fear of the unknown and in…
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These Are Your Kids
Some of our natural parenting methods might work from time to time, but we often feel like we fall short in parenting. We feel like we are just getting through it and basically surviving. But God desires to shoulder this with us and empower us to be faithful parents. “God, these are your kids!” In…
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This Is Your Marriage
The instruction to the husband to love his wife and to the wife to respect her husband are simple in number, but they don’t feel simple in practice. But God does not merely give you His Word of instruction, but also the will and power to follow them. In the book of Ephesians, the apostle…
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Victory is Here
Most of us have been dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic for a few months now, and many of us are weary. Some may feel angry, depressed, or just plain defeated. Some have gotten sick; many are out of work or have had their hours or pay cut. Some have cabin fever. We really need to…
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Be a Disciple Maker
As we read Jesus’ last instruction on earth to his disciples before he was raised up to Heaven, we see the disciples struggling to determine what their next steps were. After all, the rabbi that they followed for three years, which whom they had done and seen amazing things including His death, burial and resurrection,…
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Death to Life
In the book of Ephesians, Paul told the church of Ephesus that although they were dead in their sins, they had been made alive through the grace of Jesus Christ. We too are dead, apart from Jesus, but His grace can make us alive.