Tag: Week 3 // Monday

The Song of God

The Song of Justice It’s fitting that Micah’s prophecy starts with the imperative to hear. When we read through this short book, we find God’s justice to be quite a loud endeavor. There’s a lot of wailing and weeping. We hear howling like a wild dog and screeching like an

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Jesus Changes Everything

Jesus’ Early Days Have you ever thought about what Jesus was like when He was younger? I assume that He was a lot like all of us. He had parents that raised Him. He crawled. He had to learn to walk and to talk. He went through puberty and adolescence.

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No Favoritism in the Gospel

From each of our windows and corners of the world, we’re all watching the coronavirus pandemic unfold. It has infected millions, but it has affected us all. This novel virus knows no bounds. There’s another global disease that respects no bounds and affects us all: prejudice. However, this virus isn’t

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God is in Control

I am a recovering control addict.  Perhaps, this is an area you have struggled in as well.  A desire for control can often be a source of fear and anxiety in our lives.  We obsess over our education, career, family, fitness, and finances, and more. If our proposed trajectory veers

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Guilty

I’ll never forget the first time I felt real guilt. I was in elementary school, and a friend and I had been teasing one of our classmates by stealing his water bottle and hiding it around the classroom. Eventually, this little boy got tired of our silly game and told

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The Law of the Lord is Perfect

The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced. The Lord’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord’s commands are pure and give insight for life. The commands to fear the

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Desiring Righteousness

Do you get frustrated with your sin? Do you ever get tired of failing? Do you look at yourself and wish you were more godly or righteous? The Bible uses hunger and thirst to describe our spiritual state. We know what it feels like to be thirsty or to want

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Let Your Words Be Few

We live in a time when our thoughts and opinions can be shared throughout the world at a moment’s notice, with little to no accountability. It is easy to forget that we will all have to give an account for every empty word we have ever spoken. “But I tell

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Seek His Face

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. – Hosea 5:15 When God saw the sinful state of the nation of Israel, He knew it was because its leaders did not lead in a godly

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Brave in the Face of Persecution

Today´s Scripture is one of my favorites. I learned it by heart many years ago without knowing that God would use it to comfort me in the years to come. Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword separate us from the love of

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