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The Chosen–
It is not your job to drag yourself into the pool. You only need look to Him who seeks you. Jesus went to the pool that day, knowing who He was seeking. He seeks you today, just the same! Will you accept His hand? Do you want to be healed?
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A freshly waxed car…
Is my heart, your heart, like a well-waxed car? Does God’s word, his Spirit, bead up and roll off of it, keeping his message and strength from permeating your heart and soul? Does it keep his words from changing you?
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Don’t sweat the small stuff…
“Don’t sweat the small stuff. If he folds the towels wrong, be happy because they are folded!”
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Easter egg…
Did you know that there are easter eggs in the Bible? When Jesus Christ walked this earth, he fulfilled 351 old testament prophecies. Easter Sunday is the celebration of when Christ rose from the dead, breaking the curse of sin and restoring our relationship with God the Father. The Bible is full of clues to…
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Darkest before the dawn
I am often overtaken by the darkness and my anxiety spikes making it hard to breathe. That is when I must remind myself that God is in control. Nothing happening in the world today—the leaders who are in power, the economy, Covid—none of these things have taken God by surprise. He is still on the…
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Border Crisis
Turn on the news any time of day right now and you will be inundated with reports about the crisis at the border. It is a complicated problem; a problem that divides people, just like the geographical boundary that divides the United States and Mexico. But taking a look at it from a different perspective,…
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Why are you wailing?
Have you ever tried to hold a squirming toddler? You wrestle, bounce, sing…anything to get her to relax and rest still in your arms. But in her willfulness, she can’t see that if she would let go and just relax, her tension, tears, and distress, would soon melt away. Do you wonder if that is…
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Apple to Oranges…
You have heard the saying, “comparing apples to oranges”? It is where you take two completely different things and compare them to each other, to see which is better. Impossible! The common phrase gives us a picture of how useless comparisons can be. Why then, are we always comparing ourselves to someone else? I know…
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Shell game…
There is an enemy and he is after something in your life and it is the truth. And I fear that we do not take [this] seriously enough…If I were your enemy, I would make you numb and distract you from God’s story.
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Whirlwind…
Martha was so consumed with her list and the tasks that needed to be done, that she completely missed the fact that the Lord God, the Christ, Jesus, was sitting in her living room! Oh, how I can relate!
