Tag: Week 5 // Monday

Wait Expectantly

In our fast-paced culture, it is hard to wait. We are accustomed to getting what we want or need at an ever-increasing speed. Fast food sometimes isn’t fast enough anymore. Our internet speeds are instant, no longer the dial-up wait times of the past. Even being able to talk or

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Repent and Be Reconciled

I struggle with perfectionism in my flesh, and this often seeps into my relationships. For the longest time, I thought that I had to be “perfect” to be loved. Along with this belief, I thought that my friendships could be “perfect,” too. I can remember many times when I was

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Sing to the Lord

I love worship music. Some of my most powerful moments with God have been during worship, listening to the body of Christ praising His name. When I close my eyes and focus on the words I’m singing back to the Lord, I’m more aware of the presence of the Holy

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Look for Christ and Find Him

In his noteworthy book Mere Christianity, theologian C.S. Lewis said: “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”  Jesus is the Son of

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Good and Perfect Gifts

With five young kids, our house is pretty much a hurricane of chaos from the time the alarm goes off in the morning until bedtime. There is always a meal to prepare, a storybook to read, a mess to clean, supplies to be ordered, a child to correct, a fight

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Convinced and Committed

I sat across from a friend sharing coffee and conversation when I confessed a longing I had been hiding. After the words were out of my mouth, I almost wished I could push the rewind button and take the desire of my heart back. But the words had been spoken,

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In the Ark

Waiting is my kryptonite! I am very vulnerable to impulsivity, recklessness, and discouragement when I do not have an obvious expiration date for my periods of waiting.   Yes. I have prayed daily about it, but we all know what happens when you pray for patience!  The way that God graciously

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The Cornerstone

Have you ever faced awkward questions about your faith? Or had people ask you awkward questions, with their only intent being to trick you? It’s never a nice place to be, and yet even these times can provide us with opportunities to point people to Jesus.  In Mark 11 we

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The Importance of Theology

I am a theology nerd. I once greeted my roommate in the morning with a rant about Jesus’ temptation and the hypostatic union, unaware that she might want to wait until after breakfast before diving into a theological problem. Her groggy response was met with an exacerbated, “That’s not how

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Fearless Proclamation

“So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God. But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two

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