Tag: Week 2 // Monday

The Joy of Serving

If it weren’t for people… work would be great. If it weren’t for people… church would be effortless. If it weren’t for people… humble service would be easy. Sacrificial service is something many people admire but may not truly desire to practice. Our culture values self-service and self-interest. More and

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What To Do When The Flood Waters Rise

We live in a time where the news and those on social media like to tell us we only care about our own. Forcing a narrative that we only care about those who look like us, speak like us and live where we live.  However, we are seeing truth emerging

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Following Christ, No Matter the Cost

“Following Jesus is more than nodding a head, raising a hand, signing a card, or repeating a prayer – though someone coming to Christ can do any of those. Following Jesus is not returning to life as usual, the only difference being that we’re now going to Heaven. Following Jesus

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Moses – Fear & Weakness

“What might change in our life if we really believed… in our guts that God sees us and He hears us? What sin might we walk away from? What confidence might we gain? What if we truly believed that God keeps his promises? How might we mine the Word of

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Wisdom in Speech

I said it, and I couldn’t take it back. In the heat of the moment (on a demanding, dreary day and on much too little sleep) I had let my guard down and the anger in my heart slipped out through words that I would immediately regret. The recipient of

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It Meant Leaving Heaven

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”- 2 Corinthians 8:9 When Christ came as a child it meant leaving all the comforts of heaven behind. This

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Gratitude that’s not of this world…

“We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you

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The Way of Forgiveness

Heeeyyyyy there! Can we start off Week 2 by being completely real with each other? Pull up a chair and grab your favorite latte, because it’s time to engage in the rare talk that goes deeper than the surface conversations we exchange on social media and in the church foyer on

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The Promise of a Better King

Always and forever – two words that promise so much, yet rarely deliver. Lovers pledge these words in everything from Hallmark cards to wedding vows. BFFs make friendship pacts with these words and wear matching necklaces to prove it. My seven year old daughter uses these words when she pinky promises me

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When God Is Left Out

The Bible never disguises how dark things are when God is left out. – Alistair Begg “Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?— only what he has already done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly

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