Tag: Week 3 // Friday

Wholehearted Devotion

What has your heart? Is it your family, friends, your hobbies, career, or even your ministry? Maybe it’s a passion for art, travel, music, entertainment, or food. It’s easy to find ourselves living with half-hearted devotion to God. James urges believers to humbly submit to God in order to overcome

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Our Guide and Defender

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them,

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You are a Citizen of Heaven

I grew up in Miami where over half of the population lives with their hearts in two countries. You see, in the early 60’s my mom got on a plane with just two sets of clothes in her suitcase and fled the only home she’d ever known to find freedom.

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Loving Our Leadership

  Have you ever been in a church where the leadership is untrustworthy? Where the teaching has been unbiblical or very shallow? We went to a church once where the main text of the sermon was a magazine article! The Bible was just an add on. Needless to say we

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The Bottom Line

At the end of every month, millionaires and single moms alike look at the books to examine the bottom line. A rich man wants to know if his well-planned investments yielded a profit. A single mom on a budget is praying she has enough pennies to pay the bills. When

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Hands Extended and Hearts Full

My hands were empty, and my heart was broken. I sat at home on the 3-day leave from work after my miscarriage and blindly stared at the blinking computer screen in front of me. I’d tried reading my Bible, but was unable to focus past a verse or two. I

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A Call to Love our Enemies

In Proverbs 25:21, Solomon, who is known as “the wisest man who ever lived,” gives us a front row seat on insight to loving people well and what it truly looks like when we put it to work in our lives. He issues a challenge to believers by saying we

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see Him whose birth the angels sing; Come, adore on bended knee Christ, the Lord, the new-born King. Gloria in excelsis Deo. This morning, I got a text message from a friend announcing the birth of her son, Milo.  He arrived unexpectedly early during the wee

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God’s Unlimited Forgiveness

To what depths would you go for your spouse, your children, or your family members? Would you risk your life for them?  How much would you sacrifice for their happiness or their safety?  The answers for most people would be positive.  But what if you were asked the same questions

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When you’re tired of feeling weak…

I sat quietly in the waiting room with tears streaming down my face. My unstable emotions were even catching me off guard. I was so tired of feeling weak. After all, I’m the one who’s always supposed to have it all together. And oh, how I long to be that person: the low-maintenance one who

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