Our world turns swiftly. Devices ding and flash ‘very important’ messages. E-mail and phones can lead us down endless rabbit holes, consuming precious time that…
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Tag: thoughts
Lavished Love
For all our celebration of love in Western culture, we really have no idea what it is. A current popular definition, if you can even…
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The Four Seasons
Genesis 1:14, ”And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them…
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Redeemed and Forgiven
It is really easy to focus on all the things we get wrong. The places where we slip up, the words we wish we could…
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Anxiety: My Ever-Present Companion
I was driving a friend and her two little girls across a bridge connecting several small islands in Florida when the thought hit me. What…
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Living Through Our Abilities, Not Our Limitations
We recently gathered to celebrate the life of my father-in-law—a man who lived legally blind, yet saw life more clearly than most. Standing there, remembering…
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The Ways God Speaks to Us
When I was little, I loved to sit on my dad’s lap and listen to him talk. Whenever I had a problem, or a hurt,…
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Burning Bright in the Ordinary
“Set your minds on the things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” — Colossians…
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Every Day Every Thought
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.” – 2 Corinthians 10:5…
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