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Good and Lovely Things
“Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gra...
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Be Strong
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.” - Ephesians 6:10 I love strength training and exercise, but if I want to feel strong or be...
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Choosing the Right Kinds of Friends
“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” - Proverbs 18:24 I’m coming up on my te...
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Hide and Seek
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16 When I used ...
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The Best Mystery
“…that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and ...
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Jesus Cares for Our Rest
“The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they di...
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The Tale of Sidney and Norman
“For by the grace given me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, ...
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The Darkness Is Not Dark to Him
“I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.” Isaiah 42:16b There is nothing at camp that creates a lump in my...
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He Is For You!
“May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good home, encourage your hear...
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You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Loved
“And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when ...
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He Won't Stop Making You New
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the...
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The Key to Life and Peace
“The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 One fact I recently read was that we ha...
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People Pleasing
“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of...
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Where Do You Fit in the Body of Christ?
“Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:27 Do you find yourself looking around and wishing you could be mo...
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Prepared for Every Good Work
“For you are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for you to do.” Ephesians 2:10 Inadequate. T...
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Glorious, Ordinary Life
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—an...
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Your Victory Is Sure
“And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.” 1 Peter 5:4 2018 will forever be known as the year I got comple...
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Rest Is Good for You
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 “Come to me, all who labor and...
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Worry Better
“God is within her, she will not fail.” Psalms 46:5 I don’t know about you, but sometimes I worry like it is going out of style. And I’ll tell you w...
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Who Jesus Came For
“Jesus answered them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’” Luk...
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Jesus’s 7 “I AM” Statements
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 For as long as I have been a Chri...
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Who Do You Say That I Am?
“And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And...
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Knowing Jesus for Ourselves
“Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ So when the Samaritans c...
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The Heart of a Pharisee: Majoring on the Minors
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more...
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Abiding in the Vine
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing […] As the Father ...
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The Beauty of the Body of Christ
“For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would ...
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Getting the Full Picture
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thor...
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Let's Be Thankful in This Moment
“Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 I just recently read Ann Voskamp...
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Learning to be Filled Up In Jesus
“I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” Psalm 131:2 Miley Cyrus’ most fa...
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Clay in the Hands of the Potter
“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 Do you ever fe...