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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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1 Timothy 4:12 Isn’t Just About Your Age: What is Holding You Back?
What is holding you back from the work God is calling you to do in the church? What conversation are you afraid to have? What space are you afraid to step into?
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Is God Really Good? Holding Onto Truth When Things Aren’t “Good”
God works for the good of those who love Him? Then how come my life isn’t always good? Why do bad things still happen? What possible good can come from the terrible things that bad people do? When my brother went to jail in January of 2009, I could not…
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God Chose You: Mothering with Purpose
The ways in which they are difficult, or sweet, or angry, or tired, or loving were made especially for you. You were equipped by God to take care of these specific beings, even if it may not seem like it.
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Logic vs. Faith: Loaves and Fishes Today
Let’s stop trying to think our way out of a need for faith. I can make schedules, and shift people around, and make phone calls all day, but it’s got to start with a faith and trust that God will provide, even if my logic doesn’t play out.
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Fighting Forward by Hannah Brencher
It’s not your average self-help book with things to check off and make habits of. It tells the story of how she went from zero to something other than zero. And not just in the striving to not be zero, but in striving toward fighting for herself, and for her…
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Contentment as a Tool of the Enemy
The devil would love nothing more than for us to remain where we are. He would love for us to look around and say “hmm this is good. All of this is good. All of this is enough.” He would love for us to put on blinders to the world…
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Bringing Light to the Darkness: Why Our Prayers Matter
And after we lift up the darkness to be covered in His light, we can be lead to actions, and prayers, and solutions, in His name. In His plans, asking His kingdom come, this surrender leads to hope, and resolution by His mighty name, not our own. So bring your…
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