Tag: joy
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Cultivating Change – Our God is a God of New Beginnings
“Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.” I have been reading this book for the last few weeks and I came across this incredible quote. Recently, the topic of change and its necessity in our lives as Christians has…
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Dear Weary Traveler…HE is still God.
I have come to realize that the “advice” for the weary Christian is to have hope in what is to come, that being, eternity with God in Heaven. Now, don’t get me wrong. That is amazing and it is what our greatest hope should be. But for the longest time, I found it so hard…
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Praise Will Be My Song
For the past month or so, the story of Joseph has been popping up in conversation, sermons, devotionals, books, etc. I mean, we even taught it to the kids at Vacation Bible School last week. With that, I figured God must have had some clever role to play in all of this. I have heard…
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What Floods The Desert
But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7 NIV For the last 3 weeks, I have been in a flooded desert. Though there was pain, sorrow, and a lack of resources, none of it was a match for the…
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What’s your Nineveh? – Stop Running From God
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it,…
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