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Dropping Hints

For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. — Amos 3:7 ESV It can start early in the season: our loved ones dropping ...

Getting Comfortable with the Reality of Flawed Friends

Most modern friendships last only until the first conflict. Like plastic cups, we toss them out and just grab new ones. But why would we expect deep relationships without deep ...

How Has God Prepared You for Your Purpose?

 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they all come from the same Spirit. There are different ways to serve the same Lord, and we can each do different ...

Grief: Heads Up, Hands Off

Grief doesn’t come with a handbook. There are guidelines, of course — clinical scales that help determine phases of denial, anger, acceptance, and a few others. And while a useful ...

Worship That Makes Dead Things Alive

Scripture Read Ezekiel 37:1–10. Devotion I’m writing this on the heels of a really discouraging conversation. A friend I love has lost his faith in God — in His love, ...

Eternal Perspective or the Black Dot on the String

Perspective can be thought of as the way we think about life. Think about life in terms of its brevity. If eternity were a string of yarn wrapped all the ...

Expectations: The Alluring Illusion of Control

Eye the wisdom of God in all your afflictions. ~ John Flavel Faith Versus Entitlement Whether you are a planner who has your next five to ten years marked out ...

Who Jesus Is

When I was growing up, Madonna once said, “Jesus Christ was like a movie star, my favorite idol of all.”¹ Napoleon Bonaparte went further: “I know men, and I tell ...

A Christmas List

All the promises of God find their Yes in Him. — 2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV Do you remember making a Christmas list when you were young? Whether you mailed it ...

Your Unique Calling

Your Calling We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. — Ephesians 2:10 I had wanted a ...

Who Is the Holy Spirit?

I clicked the play button on the video of a woman sitting in a chair on a stage, microphone in hand, seemingly ready to share something from the Bible to ...

Real Christmas Trees

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. — Matthew 15:8 Nothing says the holidays quite like a Christmas tree. It’s the centerpiece of ...

God Can Use a Person Whose Heart Is Like This

I heard the voice of the LORD saying,“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” — Isaiah 6:8 Years ago, I ...

What to Do in the Waiting

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. — Acts 16:25 There was a time I felt utterly ...

Who told you that?: Stop Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Am I hard to love? Is there something wrong with me? Will I ever be enough? In tracking down my own sense of unworthiness, I remembered sixteen-year-old Madi, desperate for ...

The Reason Why We Vote

The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics... God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray ...

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Your waiting is not wasted when waiting on the Lord!

Your waiting is not wasted when waiting on the Lord!

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