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Friendship: What Would Happen If We Took the First Step?
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Romans 12:10 1 Peter 4:8-10 1 Thessalonians 5:11Friendship involves effort on both parts.On your part. On theirs. Make your peace with this truth right now or you will ...
Let's Talk About Death and Meditation
Focus on DeathYou might want to think about death. Although want is probably an exaggeration.Our younger son, Tim, broke his femur in a tricycle accident at nursery school at age ...
Servant Leadership
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. – Mark 10:45Husbands, love your ...
When Strivings Cease Session Four — Completely Changed
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. — 2 Corinthians 5:17My life can either point to ...
You're Invited to the 3:16 The Numbers of Hope OBS
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. — John 3:16The most ...
Jesus Cancels Guilt and Shame
Editor’s Note: Phil Robertson doesn’t apologize for loving Jesus. He is unashamed about his past sins because he glories in the fact that they’re covered by Jesus and completely forgiven. ...
Black History Month: A Place of Hope
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. — Romans 5:5 NKJVDating ...
Hoping in Our Sovereign God
Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved ...
Living Palms Up
Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them and accept the insults of their enemies. — Lamentations 3:30When people get angry or defensive they tend to make ...
Strengthened to Believe, Wait, and Love
Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you. — Hebrews 13:5 Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being ...
Know How Much You Are Loved
This is the month that most of us celebrate love. But, love isn’t merely romantic. Let’s remember that the greatest love, the purest love, the most expansive, wildest, most radical ...
Who Are You Comparing Yourself To?
When we compare ourselves or compete with one another, it works against what God intends for us. We are designed for relationship — to be interdependent and supported by each ...
When Strivings Cease Session Three — Released From Shame
As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us. — Psalm 103:12Grace will replace our shame if we let it… if ...
Living in Tension
This morning I made coffee, as I do every morning, and then fetched the morning paper, which tells you that I have not entirely adapted to the paperless internet. It ...
Divine Disruption: Life Is Like a Roller Coaster
But if it doesn’t please you to worship the LORD, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship — the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the ...
Take That First Courageous Step
I didn’t plan to write books. Today’s call to courage? I need to be willing to write about some things I don’t want to share but feel nudged by God ...
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