Category: Faith
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Practice Makes Progress: How Walking with God Should Inform our Life
We no longer would have to search the pages of the Bible for answers, but when faced with a problem the answers would pour out of a heart simply overflowing with his words. When faced with sin, we’d see the right path and take it without thinking. When faced with…
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To Strengthen, Encourage, and Comfort
She had just explained to us that nothing she ever did was good enough: being a wife, a mother, a friend, a teacher, etc. She was my friend and it brought tears to my eyes to hear her speak that way about herself. She was great at all of those…
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Let It Go
I never thought that dropping off my second daughter at her first day of kindergarten would be so uneventful. She has been the attached one, the one who acted out for babysitters, the one who needs cuddles, and still naps in the afternoon at the age of 5 and a…
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Am I Qualified to Prophesy?
We were stuck. Our money was stuck in different places, our house hadn’t sold, and our new house hadn’t been built. There was no way to keep our new unbuilt house as ours. We were going around and around in circles with the loan office, the realtors, the builder; there…
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Does Prophecy Have to be Profound?
“It’s going to be okay.” That’s what I heard from God. As I stared at the back of my friend’s head I heard those words over and over in my head. I kept telling myself this wasn’t worth telling him, it wasn’t going to make a difference, and it wasn’t…
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What is Prophecy and How Can We Enter into it Today?
Have you ever thought about prophecy? What comes up for you? Has it been damaging, helpful, scary, or just downright weird? I think we all have heard someone prophesy the end of the world and then it doesn’t happen, so what does that even mean? How can we tell when…
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What Happens When We Abide and How This Blog Got Its Name
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.” John 15:9 “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” John 15:10 “Abide in my love.” “Abide in my…
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Doing Discipleship Well: A Lesson from my Kids and Their Cat
Have you ever heard the word discipleship and thought “I really don’t even know what that means?” It’s a big churchy word used to describe walking toward Jesus in relationship with others. It can be a place of amazing growth, and, also, in questionable circumstances, a place of deep shame…
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Being Misunderstood: Mary DeMuth Shows Us What God Sees
As a 14 yr old pastor’s kid, during a new church plant, I set up many a folding chair and table. I spent two years loading and unloading a trailer, and the next two setting up and taking down church for various events in our very own building. In those…
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Guest Post Alert!
“This verse is not an instruction for us to make our bodies shiny and new like the temples we imagine. It’s not a direction to store up treasures, and protect ourselves from invaders. This is a verse that begs us to remember that God created us to be temples of…
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