Tag: Week 3 // Monday

Faith-Filled and Faithful

Have you ever come to an account or a passage in Scripture and find it hard to engage with, confusing, or maybe it’s a record of historical events and it’s difficult to see what you could learn from it, or how you could apply it to your daily life and

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Resurrection Hope

HOPE. Isn’t it such a lovely word? An English dictionary definition tells me it’s a feeling of expectation, a desire for something to happen. But, oh, how it is so much more. As I’ve been thinking of hope recently, I’ve realized how much I use this word in conversation, but

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From Isolation to Community

Over the past three years, my husband and I have walked through what has become the most difficult season or years of our lives. Three years ago, my husband and I began trying to grow our family. What began as a fun and exciting and highly anticipated season of joy

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Jesus Sees You

  At the start of this new week in our study of the Gospel of Luke, we find Jesus near Capernaum, specifically nearing a town called Nain.    Jesus and his disciples, along with a great crowd following them, were walking to Nain when just outside it they saw a

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Hope in the Cross of Christ

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why God doesn’t answer all prayers the same way. I wonder why I see one prayer answered the same day I prayed it and yet another prayer left unanswered for a long time. I have realized that God’s timetable is not mine. He has

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God Restores

“O Lᴏʀᴅ, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished. Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest. The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a

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Changing Enemies to Heirs

I recently spent a weekend away with a group of friends, some of whom I’ve known deeply for decades and some of whom I knew less intimately at the time. I read today’s verses while I traveled, in anticipation of this study, and I was struck by how often the

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Asking for the Impossible

“For this boy I prayed, and the Lᴏʀᴅ has given me the request that I asked of him. So I also dedicate him to the Lᴏʀᴅ. For all the days of his life he is dedicated to the Lᴏʀᴅ.” Then he bowed down there in worship to the Lᴏʀᴅ.” –

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What’s Coming is Better Than What Has Been

“For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.” –Romans 8:18 How do we live in the tension of the hard things we go through in life and the beautiful hope and expectation of what’s to come? The

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God Can Do a Lot with a Little

The story of Jesus feeding the five thousand is a familiar and well-known miracle of Jesus. It’s also the only miracle of Jesus that is recorded in all four of the Gospels. In this passage, there’s a lot we can learn about the nature and heart of Jesus. While there

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