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Diversity: Seeing God More Clearly

One of the passages that has most profoundly shaped both my understanding of Jesus and my call as a Christian is Colossians 1:15-20:The Son is the image of the invisible ...

Our God is Compassionate and Gracious

Imagine living in the ancient Near East in 1500 BC. You’re a Hebrew, formerly a slave in Egypt, now traipsing through the desert around Mount Sinai.You inhabit a spiritually charged ...

Abandoning the Approval of Others

Do you want to be liked or do you want to actually do something significant with this life? Let pleasing God become bigger than pleasing people. ~ Jennie Allen The ...

Letting Go of Plans in 2020

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. — Proverbs 19:21My husband still teases me about my huge wedding notebook from 23 ...

Change Always Happens

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. — James 1:17 NIVEverything you have, ...

Bread and Circuses

So that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. — 2 Corinthians 2:11 ESVNow that we have established the fact that you ...

28-Day Prayer Journey: Ask

Today we are expressing our confidence that God sees and hears us when we pray. MORNING MEDITATION This is the day that you have been waiting for, right? The day ...

3 Things to Remember When It’s Hard to Forgive

Have you ever struggled to choose forgiveness over bitterness in the midst of feeling rejected, abandoned, or hurt? Maybe you’re there right now as you prepare to spend time with ...

How to Keep Going

Here’s the straight truth. There’s no way for anyone on this planet to go through life without going through suffering.I wish there was. But there is not.Though knowing that suffering ...

No Mountain High Enough

The mountain is tough. No matter how meticulous you may be, it is a dangerous place. Be humble. ~ Kilian Jornet, extreme runner and mountain ClimberFor people who love a ...

Let’s See Other People

Do you love personality tests? I love personality tests. Myers-Briggs, DISC testing, even the one that classifies you as an animal (I’m a lion, by the way). My favorite two ...

Let Us Not Shrink Back from God’s Plan

In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield observed, “The more important the work, the more resistance you need to expect to feel.”Why does it feel so hard to not be ...

The Good Work of Turning Around

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. ...

Find the Good Way

I spent my first twenty-one years without once cracking open a Bible. When my brother, who recently had come to faith, gave me a Bible for Christmas — I think ...

The World’s Worst Neighbor

That’s me. I’m terrible at neighborhood stuff. I’m aware of this. I don’t like it, and I’m trying to change it.Because I’m socially awkward, the last thing I ever want ...

I Declare War on My Mouth

I Declare War on My MouthThere’s no other area that is easier (for me) to mess up with, and that has caused more heartache afterward, than talking. I’ve shot my ...

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