Tag: Christianity
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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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Healing from church hurt without walking away from the church
Let’s start 2026 in the right place. Church hurt is real. It is not imagined, exaggerated, or unspiritual to acknowledge it. Many believers have been wounded not by the world, but by people who carried the name of Jesus. Words spoken carelessly. Authority misused. Grace withheld. Expectations placed on shoulders that were already heavy. For…
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Living by Reflection
This Christmas season we pause and reflect on the birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world, born a baby, yet a King. He came from humble means, born on a silent night in the city of Bethlehem, traveling with His mother and father on a donkey to a cold, dark cave of sorts, wrapped…
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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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Rise & Choose
RISE AND CHOOSE I recently was blessed to attend a one-day women’s conference, SOUL CARE-RISE, which ministered to my heart in ways I didn’t realize I needed. Dry-Bones and Ezekial 37: 1-14, were where we started and as the day progressed I came to realize that the challenges of the past year in several areas…
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