Category: Faith
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Don’t Look Back
Don’t Look Back: Twenty-five years. A quarter century. Looking back, it is hard to see the woman I was—or maybe more accurately, the girl. She was so broken, so addicted, feeling unworthy and unlovable, convinced she was damaged in a way that could never be repaired. She tried to take her life twice, once at…
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When God Closes a Door
A year can change everything. I’m standing in a place today that I never planned to be a year ago—not because I ran from something, not because something went wrong, but because God closed a door I wasn’t expecting Him to close. For a long season, I was serving faithfully in a role I loved.…
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Following Jesus may cost you something. Not following Jesus may cost you everything.
Being a follower of Jesus in today’s world is not clean, polished, or easy. It’s messy. It’s costly. It’s confusing sometimes. And yet, it is the most life-giving, soul-steadying, hope-filled path I’ve ever known. I don’t stand here as someone who has it all together. I stand here as someone who has tried to do…
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New Year’s Joy
As the year ends and the holidays come to a close, we find ourselves packing away the Christmas decorations and all the “material things” that bring the Christmas Spirit to life in our homes at this time of year. The beautiful music of Christmas carols and the sweet aroma of cookies baking in the oven…
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The Spirit of God Within Us
As we are approaching Christmas Day, our thoughts and our intentions reflect upon the manger and the birth of Christ, and how beautiful it was. During this season we watch the Christmas movies, we look at manger scenes and Christmas lights around our community, and we ponder the miraculous virgin birth of our Lord and…
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Living by Surrender
Mary, the mother of Jesus. A young girl, highly favored. Chosen by God. In Mark 1, we read every advent season of this young girl in a desert place devoted to God with no apparent promise other than a future marriage to a young man named Joseph. An angel appeared to Mary one night, telling…
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Peace & Gratitude in Chaos
The month of November is typically a time when we specifically focus our attention on gratitude. Afterall, it is the month when we celebrate Thanksgiving. What about when our “normal” is completely upside down? How can we practice gratitude when life is not great? Many of us think of gratitude in terms of profound life…
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Autumn
My favorite time of the year, no question. The colors of the leaves, the crisp cool air, the excitement of holidays to come. Most of all, it’s the feeling of contentment that I get each year. Hard to explain why exactly, but I know it has to do with hot days being over, windows being…
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