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Be Growing
We used to get asked this question a lot when we were kids, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We would say a doctor, a policeman, a firefighter, a soldier, a veterinarian, even a power ranger. Maybe you did just that! But somewhere along the journey we stopped asking that question…
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Great is Thy Faithfulness
When you consider your past and think on your present, do you see the faithfulness of God at work? Or do you question His faithfulness? Perhaps your past is filled with pain or perhaps even now things have been going adrift in your life. Maybe you’ve felt the loss of a loved one, the loss…
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Unity Over Division
Our culture has truly made diversity one of the highest pursuits for our society. One might argue that diversity has become its own god in our society. In its purest form, the idea of “diversity”, has the meaning of different things coming together as one. However, most of what you will hear, see, read, and…
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Forgiveness over Condemnation
Many believe that Christ and His church are more about condemnation than about forgiveness. This is not entirely surprising since our society embraces and even celebrates behaviors and mindsets that the Bible would call sin. This seems to put God and His people in opposition with the people of this world. But in fact the…
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Love Remains
If you could identify the way people treat one another lately, would you characterize it as loving? I imagine you wouldn’t. What have we seen? A nation at war, not from without but from within. A people who have polarized themselves on the grounds of politics, color, science, beliefs, gender, and so on. Love does…
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Faith Remains
Do you ever feel so uncertain that you feel stuck? Do you feel like the changes to your environment especially over the last year have crippled your decision making or even stopped you from dreaming of a better future? All of us are facing this in some way. Every one of us have had changes…
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A Letter to Wake the Dead
In the real world, we often put up a front to hide our reality, because we first of all don’t want to realize it ourselves and then we most definitely don’t want the rest of the world to realize it. Why do we hide and cover our reality? Because our reputation is more important than…
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Glorifying God Together
The Bible talks about ways that we can glorify God on our own. We glorify Him with our faith, trusting Him with our future. We glorify Him with our worship, proclaiming with what we say and do that He is worthy to be praised. However, in order to glorify God “in everything,” we must also…
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Staying Together
Sometimes the body of Christ gets out of sync. Our relationships with one another are strained by some hurt, some injury, or some misunderstanding. Many of us have been tempted to isolate or move somewhere else when the body gets out of sync. Hurt amongst believers can become like a cancer that no one cure…
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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…