Just as God creates the biology that allows a broken bone to heal through a doctor's cast, God provides the wisdom, tools, and professional care needed to help a hurting mind heal.
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Sitting by the potted plants on our balcony, I opened my Bible and read these verses. I had read the passage many times before, but today it seemed to call me to pay attention as it popped out of the page.
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Only God can take a mess like our missing the mark on marriage and turn it into a miracle. When you see a mess, it’s a miracle in the making. We can look at this and imagine how much worse it can get. OR we can choose hope.
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Through the power of corporate prayer, my family and I experienced God’s divine intervention. In my deepest sleep of coma, God didn’t sleep; he was my strength in my weakness.
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The phrase used in this verse ‘eager hands’ brings these images to my mind: a tired mother cooking, cleaning and running errands, a student who puts in her best effort as she toils on the paper due next week, or a young computer specialist, a hardworking surgeon, who starts her day drawing from God’s strength, eager to be right in the place God has placed her.
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Harriet is someone who is a legend for her work as a runaway slave. She was raised in slavery and horribly mistreated. Despite her mistreatment by slave owners, she chose to believe in God. This is astounding - considering the very people who enslaved her claimed it was God’s will for her to be mistreated and a slave. Tubman believed that she had supernatural visions and revelations from God. She could not read the Bible for herself - but was told stories of Jesus by her mother.
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At a glance, Goodness is the "muscle" of the group. While kindness is the soft word spoken to someone in pain, goodness is the moral backbone that leads you to do the right thing even when it’s unpopular or requires a "tough love" approach. It is the bridge between a good heart and a good life.
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We can smile because God is the giver of joy. We can scream, knowing that there is no pain that God can’t handle. And we can cry out to God, knowing He is near, even when we don’t feel His presence. We can do all these because God is faithful and loves us fully.
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When you think of May, you think of flowers and spring…or maybe you think of “April showers, bring May flowers.” There is a whole group of people here in the United States that think of another thing - Memorial Day. A holiday that honors those who died that served in our military.
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The words of “Great is Thy Faithfulness” remind us that we have the privilege and blessing to know God’s mercies are a daily provision, and his abiding presence gives us hope amid a world filled with hopelessness.
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Recently I completed my 60 laps around the sun, yes- I turned 60! I was filled with thanks and praise to God. Over the month I wrote down verses which had spoken to me, verses I had prayed through and Bible verses I had lived out across the six decades.
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I want to encourage you to pray for your president or leader. I prayed for Obama, Biden, and Trump. I’ll pray for the next President as well. I’m a big believer in praying for your leaders - whether or not you agree with them. I also answer to God and know we are called to call out other Believers. So, I ask you - is your speech seasoned with love or hate?
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I bask in that promise. Even when the doubts and worries begin to sneak in, I just have to remember that moment and those three little words and the shadows disappear, because my God has made me a special promise. And heaven and earth may pass away, but His words will never disappear (Luke 21:33).
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There are so many youth and adults with specialized problems and generational cycles that need help. America’s system is very broken - at every level - and makes it very difficult to help those in need. It is important to understand that the right thing to do is do your best to work within systems to reach the homeless who need help.
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So when we make our heart Christ’s home, he wants to do likewise. Our heart is an abiding place that He decorates with comfort, beauty, and praise! He puts us on display for his glory!
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To make sure your faith is in the right place, you need to check your heart, pray and ask God for help.
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I’m prefacing all of this to say that I engage with the world. I engage with the pop culture topics of the day, news headlines, politics, and entertainment. While I remain guarded in what I entertain, I stay up to date so I can have conversations that point back to the Gospel and Jesus’ redemption of lives.
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Everyday, mothers all around the world pack lunches in brown bags, plastic boxes, stainless steel containers or in fancy designer ones for their children. The boxes may look different, but they always contain a good dollop of love and care!!
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There is no limit to the ways God has changed, shaped, and molded me to be more like Christ. Yet, what is perhaps the most surprising is how He changed my sorrow to dancing and my depression to joy.
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