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How Do We prepare for the Unexpected?: Trust Him
Can you imagine if God told us all of the plans He had for our lives? If God had let us know the pandemic was coming, the devastating hurricanes, the strife in Afghanistan, the turmoil in our personal lives: would we have trusted that He could make good of all…
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God Crafts Perfect Gifts For His Children
need, he lifts us up. When we need comfort he sends a friend, or a word straight from him. When we need a miracle, he is ready to give it. We don’t have to work for it, we don’t deserve it, but he loves to do it. I imagine him…
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Happy Father’s Day!
When I was in high school, I lived and breathed soccer. I played year round and made the Varsity team in my sophomore year; I started every game, and rarely missed a minute. Our team was young my junior year, but we played like we’d known each other forever. We…
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Lessons in Tennis from Bill Foster
When I was in elementary school, my Grandpa took on the task of teaching me to play tennis. He bought me a brand new racket, grabbed a bucket of balls, and took me out to the court near my house. He played tennis for UC Berkeley, and would go on…
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How Can I Hear God?
He can literally use anything to speak, and yet, we want him to speak in specific ways so that we have control over the way it looks, and so that we don’t have to seek him in order to understand. We don’t want to have to stop and give him…
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Station 14: Jesus is Placed in the Tomb
As we move into resurrection Sunday, meditate on what is hiding in that tomb for you. What do you need to resurrect? What purpose in your life did Jesus go to the cross for, that needs to come out of that tomb? As you sing that song about “running out…
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Station 13: Jesus Dies on the Cross
When you consider more deeply the moments the disciples have had with Jesus, the miracles they’ve experienced, the questions they’ve asked, the miles they’ve traveled, this moment is more profound. All these people have seen the power of Jesus firsthand, and now he’s gone. What now?
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Station 12: Jesus Speaks to his Mother and a Disciple
If you are feeling something you don’t think anyone could possibly understand, Jesus understands it. He understands our sorrow, our temptations, our needs and desires. He has lived it, and he died for those things, too.
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Station 11: Jesus Promises the Kingdom to a Thief
Jesus just wants our belief, our heart. He just wants us to see him, acknowledge him, and ask to be let into the kingdom. That’s it. For Easter this year, let’s uncomplicate the process. Just be with Jesus, just let him know you believe. And rest in the fact that…
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Station 10: Jesus is Crucified
Because Jesus died on the cross there is now someone standing beside us in our wrongdoing, whispering to God “Father forgive them.” Now there is a permanent sacrifice on the altar every time we need cleansing, ready to be offered to God. And not just any sacrifice, a perfect, blameless…
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