Category: Our Security For Eternity

So Much More

It’s been quite a while since I was in high school, but I still clearly remember my English Literature teacher emphasizing the importance of how to start a piece of writing, and how to finish well. She insisted that we had to capture the readers’ attention, and then eventually tie

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Life in His Name

“But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” –John 20:31 Friend, I am always in awe of God’s thoughtfulness and love for humankind by sending Jesus and inspiring His

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Go and Tell

Change and loss are a few of life’s realities that I have become very familiar with over the last ten years. I remember the moment I received the call about my dad passing away, but I remember even more clearly the moments leading up to taking that dreaded phone call.

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Why Good Friday is Good

“Why do we call it Good Friday? Jesus died, dying isn’t good?” I was asked this by a 7-year-old a couple of Easters ago. How would you have answered?  So much of today’s reading is difficult, it’s cruel, unfair, gruesome, it doesn’t seem good at all. However, we have the

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The Cost of Eternal Life

As I sat down to read our passage for today, I knew I should read the whole chapter to get the context of Jesus’s words, but the enemy was distracting me and pulling my desire and attention away from God’s Word. Anything else seemed to be a better use of

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The Vine

“I can do it myself. Don’t worry about me.”  These words have set the tone for more of my days than I’d care to admit. I like to consider myself a strong, independent woman. And although there is nothing wrong with this mindset, these thoughts of determined independence can bleed

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The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” –John 14:6 Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m living in what my girls would call, “opposite days” when they were little. An “opposite day” was a day where everything that was

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Jesus the Servant

This passage of Scripture might be a familiar passage, recording when Jesus washed the disciples’ feet. But maybe it’s new to you. Either way, there’s something about reading the Word of God with fresh eyes to see what God is saying through the Word. Just before this event, Jesus gave

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Choices Matter

​​”But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in the One who sent Me,  and the one who sees me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me

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Look for Christ and Find Him

In his noteworthy book Mere Christianity, theologian C.S. Lewis said: “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”  Jesus is the Son of

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