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Bible Chapters Everyone Should Read
For their historical value, rhetorical brilliance, gripping accounts, and most of all for their divinely inspired truth… the most eye-opening books of the Bible that EVERYONE should read.
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Goals Don’t Work
New Years resolutions have been failing since day one. How do we recommit our mindsets to good habits, in February and throughout this new year? It goes deeper than just the end result.
7 min read
The Gift of a Servant Heart
We worked grasping as much as young children can grasp that what we did was important. It wasn’t a matter of if we felt like it or not. It was a matter of life and death…
7 min read
A Cost You Won’t Regret Paying | {With a Tribute to a Man Who Paid Well}
The world teaches us to avoid suffering — treat ourselves, love ourselves, preserve ourselves. But is exposing ourselves to pain good — is compassion worth the pain it leaves behind?
7 min read
Maturity | The World’s Expectations vs True Growth
Desires will strive to control us; expectations will tug us in either direction (both the world’s standards, our family’s, our schools, our own, etc.).
4 min read
Follow Your Heart?
The whole world seems to agree that freedom is found when we carefully foster the ideas of the little visionaries in us — a culture built around it’s own sort of religion for ‘revealing our true selves’. But don’t they have it backwards?
5 min read
Seeking Him | Finding Rest When it Seems Impossible
Bible reading plans are great. Daily prayer times are good reminders. But when it comes to having a relationship with God? That is only the beginning. Spontaneity isn’t required — but constant willingness to stop what we are doing serve is.
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A Boat Without a Plug
Sometimes the ‘baby step’ items on our lists are the hardest to face. We have big goals, sure, but the actual process can be most grueling in the simple tasks that build the end product. We make our ways to avoid the small stairs — elevators, so to speak, to cost a fraction of the time and exercise…
5 min read
Guarding Your Heart in Modern Society
The average American sees 4,000 to 10,000 ads in a day. If you read that and immediately believed it, I would be surprised…I did further research to find whether this statement is true.
6 min read
The Other Side
Instead of trying to convince the other side, they are trying to dismantle them, to tear them apart by explaining why their own views are right instead of respectfully appealing to the other side’s flaws. Sometimes the argument is flipped, and the predator will speak only on the other side’s flaws while avoiding their own side of the argument. Both have equally weak rhetoric. And it isn’t uncommon to see both sides take stances like this.
5 min read
Understanding God’s Word
God’s Word is inherently beautiful. As plain as some of the text may be, as many numbers added in and painful descriptions dispersed throughout the text, still its purpose and coherence gives it a majesty that can be neither heightened nor diminished by expensive colored pencils.
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The Story He’s Writing
The arch in Missouri and the winding Mississippi River certainly didn’t suggest perfection with their beauty. But each one was a work of art for the time, an image that God had been faithful to someone, somewhere, who had labored to make it so. It is hard not to think of how faithful God has been to you when you think of the world that way.
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The Shape of a Heart
The icons have captured our eyes — become a different sort of currency to settle deals of attention and passions. To exude, to convince, to plead, to delight, to sell. It’s amazing how much power can be instilled in a simple shape…
7 min read
The Skill of Seeing
It wasn’t the glorious beauties of creation’s high peaks and trees — anyone could point out the beauty in those. Jesus chose…
7 min read