Tag: Week 3 // Friday

Giving Thanks for God’s Faithfulness

On my kitchen counter you will find two large glass jars filled with colorful slips of paper. My husband placed them side by side next to the coffeemaker a while back, and just looking at them makes me smile. Those dollar store containers hold treasure.   Each Sunday during lunch, my

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All His Promises

Anger acts like a cloud over our rational thinking and judgement, causing us to easily lose perspective. As a result we often make poor choices when angry. In today’s reading, I think Sarah was not only angry but also felt jealous and regretful. She had just watched Ishmael mock her

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I Am Known By God

Everybody wants to be known. Even if you are an extreme introvert, you want to be known. We want there to be at least one person with whom we can feel so comfortable that we can share anything and everything with them, the good, the bad, and the ugly, without

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The Heart Behind It

Have you ever known a person who is really, really good at giving meaningful and intentional gifts to others? They are the ones who months ago heard you mention that you really loved a certain brand of coffee, or that you had seen a beautiful emerald green scarf at a

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Listen to Him

Can you imagine going with a couple of friends up a mountain and suddenly one of your friends begins to shine brightly?! Then, two other people appear out of the blue and a voice from the sky begins talking? It sounds like something you would find in a fantasy movie. 

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The Shame of Sickness

Time is a funny thing. While it is constant with every minute having sixty seconds and every hour sixty minutes, it can fly by or it can drag. My children share an electronic tablet and they each get half an hour to play games on it. For the one waiting,

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Unity in the New Covenant

We need a redo. A toddler time out. A fresh start on how we view and treat people. Let’s jump right in the deep end. You and I might disagree about abortion, about LGBTQ+ leadership in the church, about ways to resolve racial injustices, about politics. (I am not saying

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Our Perfect Sacrifice and High Priest

What is the most significant sacrifice you have ever made? Typically, when we give sacrificially to someone or to some endeavor, we give from our excess. We sacrifice a little of our extra time. We sacrificially give from our savings. We may even sacrifice our relationships or our peace for

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Walking in Truth

There’s no denying the power of truth. The word truth is spoken five times in the first four verses of 2 John. The foundation of our faith is completely based on truth, and we see this in John 8:32, which says, “and you will know the truth, and the truth

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Light to the Nations

When I was growing up one of my favorite programs to watch was the A-Team (I’m showing my age!). It involved a group of misunderstood guys helping people who had nowhere else to turn. They always achieved what they set out to do and even managed to get away without

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