Tag: Week 4 // Friday

Brave to Walk Forward in Faith

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1 What are you hoping for in the new year? The quick, safe answer might be something like… A less hectic schedule. To save money. To eat less. To exercise more. To get more

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Presents for the King

“And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country

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Receiving The Strength You Need

Do you remember Popeye? It was a cartoon about a sailor who was in love with a girl named Olive Oyl. Of course, the story included a bad guy, Bluto. He was big, strong, and mean, always looking to steal the girl. Popeye, being smaller and weaker, was pretty helpless

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Love the Loveless… A Call to Action

  His empty eyes caught my attention the second I stepped foot onto the school bus. As we rode to our field trip destination, it would have appeared that I was the one misplaced in that giggly and energetic world of third graders. But I could tell that he was

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A Different Kind of Happily Ever After

We have come to the end of Ruth, but instead of ending the story with Ruth living happily ever after with Boaz, we end with a genealogy. If we are honest we’ll admit that most of us don’t like reading biblical genealogies. We often skim over them or skip them

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Rising Above The Pain

Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of women walk through incredible pain. Friends whom I have the blessing of knowing, online acquaintances, and women I’ve never met all sharing their stories of pain. Each situation is different. Each story heartbreaking. Not one story is alike and yet they all have

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Walk Worthy

My husband and I cuddled on the couch one night to watch a movie we felt we could both enjoy. With popcorn ready to go, we pressed play on a story that had Sandra Bullock (my favorite actress) and football (a manly theme for my husband). We both got lost

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Living Out Authentic Faith

The world will tell you that you can ride the fence – one foot in the world and one foot in Kingdom living. But James points us to the Way, the Truth, and the only path to real living. It’s an all-in relationship with Jesus that transforms us from the

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His Wounds, Our Peace

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. – Isaiah 53:5 Christ took the thrashings and held still for His nailing, even though He did not deserve them. Christ wore a crown of

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What you and I REALLY need…

She sat on the cold pavement, hunching her torso over into her lap to better shield her body from the harsh winter wind. The forecast had predicted dropping temperatures overnight, and it appeared as though she would transition to her makeshift bed in that exact same spot on that exposed

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