Category: Abiding In Jesus

Loving Well

Jesus makes it clear—love is not just a suggestion. It’s a command. “This I command you–to love one another.” (John 15:17) Right before this, He talked about abiding in Him, bearing fruit, and experiencing His joy. And now, He tells us the result of abiding: love. But He doesn’t just

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Purposefully Made

Have you ever walked past a group of people and heard just a snippet of their conversation to the point that it intrigued you to wonder what their life is like? Where are they going to right now? Where do they live? Will we ever walk past each other ever

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True and Lasting Friendship

One thing I often tell people, and remind myself of regularly, is that some friendships are only for a season. If you think back on your lifetime, you can recall the friendships from primary school, high school, university, or from the start of your career. You might have friends that

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Leading with Love

How do you naturally respond to instruction? I remember syllabus week in college being overwhelming. Starting five classes with five different syllabi in one week was a lot to absorb as an eighteen-year-old. Every professor had different instructions for how to best succeed in their class. But I knew that

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Receiving the Love of God

Love is easy to talk about but much harder to grasp. We know in our minds that God loves us. In the quiet moments of our day, do we actually believe it? “In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his

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Fullness of Joy

I work for a non-profit that exists to share the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry. We do this by bringing home cooked meals into strip clubs across the country every Thursday night with the goal of building a relationship and sharing the gospel. 

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Taking Up Residence

I am not married, but I am in a miraculous season of life where I am prayerfully headed in that direction with a man I love. If the Lord has marriage for a woman, there comes a point where she leaves her family, roommates, and cozy 1-bedroom apartment, and she

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Love and Obedience

What words come to mind when you think of obedience? For the world, “obedience” is in the same field as rules, restrictions, and unhappiness. However, as believers, we do not view things the way the world does. We have truth that is found in Jesus, the Word of God (Ephesians

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The Blessing of Obedience

We have five kids. (I know, I know… that’s a lot of kids and coffee in one home). But one of our parenting mantras is “In our family, we obey all the way, right away, and with a happy heart.” Now that our eldest twins are almost teenagers, we’ve been

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Feasting on God’s Word

I recently heard a quote that gripped my heart: “The Scriptures were life to Moses and food to Jesus. They cannot and must not be anything less to us. They are the very breath of God.” How could we dare think we could ever live apart from the Word of

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