Tag: Week 2 // Monday

The Choice We Make

If I was asked to guess the most famous verse in the Bible, I would say John 3:16. It is the only verse that a work colleague has ever asked me to quote over lunch. He’d been watching a sports game over the weekend, saw a sign with John 3:16

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Grateful Hearts

Sometimes I think about recording the things I say over and over to my children, where I could just play them back on repeat. It would include a remix of:  Have you brushed your teeth?  Where are your shoes?  Be kind.  Have a grateful heart. Gratitude – it’s important. Gratitude

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A Life of Faith

There was a season of my life when I was my own boss, and that season came with a lot of tears, mistakes, pains, and regret.  Scriptures tell us that we were created to give God pleasure. The entirety of why we are on earth is for the will and

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I Am Rescued

In the summer of 2018 I watched the daily news, hoping for good news about the Wild Boars, a junior football (soccer) team in Thailand. They’d gone into a set of caves with their young coach to celebrate a birthday and became trapped due to rising waters.  After nine days

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How the Imago Dei Changes Everything

I don’t know about you, but the last few years have been hard. Between living in a global pandemic, racial tensions, and seeing how divided our society is on almost every issue, I’ve grown tired and weary. Like many of you, I’ve lost friends and family members to an angry

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Chosen

Today’s reading shares an answer to one of the questions that appears frequently throughout the Gospel of Mark: “Who is Jesus?” As Jesus went home after appointing the twelve disciples, experts of the law gathered around and tried to answer that question by claiming Jesus was simply a man possessed

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The Shame of Past Decisions

One of the many things I love about the Bible are the numerous stories of redemption, especially the victorious comebacks from the underdogs. Our God has certainly authored some of the greatest stories that still offer us hope today. I have experienced pain, guilt, and shame in different seasons of

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The Greatest Commandments

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ —Matthew 22:36-39 The

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Guarded from Unbelief

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. For we have become partners with Christ,

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Love One Another

It’s often said that newborn babies are more likely to look like their dads than their mums. This seems a little unfair given all that the mums have gone through! In today’s reading the apostle John wrote to fellow believers, and he again affectionately described them as little children. John’s

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