Author: mbethany
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Taking Fear Personally
Someone lied to you and you found out. Someone rejected you flat out. Someone ignored you, someone hurt you, someone who was supposed to care for you didn’t. We all have our someones. If we’re honest, everyone we know is a someone; everyone gives us cause for suspicion. I’m not paranoid- many of our fears…
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What Is Love
We know about many characteristics of love, traits like those listed in 1 Cor 13; patience, kindness, humility, etc. We certainly are aware of examples of Biblical love, like that provided in John 3:16. The Bible teaches us much about the actions and consequences of love, as in Romans 13 or John 15, which describe…
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Word of the Week: Esteem
“Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?” Isaiah 2:22 The main idea: to hold someone in esteem is to hold them over you. Rephrased: using someone as a “maker” in your life. How? By allowing man to: Plan for you Not only do we…
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In Medicine We Trust
{The third installment in the In ____We Trust Series} Disclaimer before the outrage: I go to the doctor. I believe the Lord blessed us with brains and am thankful that He has led so many into the medical field and can work so much healing through medical intervention. I also believe that if the Lord…
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Word of the Week: Understanding
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” –Proverbs 3:5 The verse is easy to memorize, but it’s so hard to live. I often feel that I’m good at the trusting, and even the leaning. Where I fail most (and the trust and the leaning aren’t real) is…
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In {Google} We Trust
{The second installment in the In ____We Trust Series} I like to stop by Christ on my way to Google. I wave hello, say “thanks” or “please.” Even “so glad you’re still here, I love you and trust you!” and then get along on my merry way to wherever I’m ultimately headed. It’s often to…
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Word of the Week: Trust
Trust. For a little word, it sure is a big one. Just a few of the things God demonstrates to us about trust… Trust Makes a Way and Keeps Us In It Isaiah 26:3 states that: “(God) will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in (Him).” Trust that makes…
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In ____ We Trust {Series}
As we detail our troubles, we intend for our hearts to trust. But we overshare our hopes while downplaying our fears. We try to back up our feelings of trust- a form of faith- with evidence and proof that it’s working. That things will get better “if.” Our trust is half-hearted. So our hearts only…
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My Mess, His Order
There are days life is a mess. Like the morning I spilled three glasses of water, got hot chocolate all over my clothes, ripped my lunch bag and forgot my needed sweater. The mess got to my heart next. Within the hour I was at work in a special needs classroom. A student, twice my…
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WordoftheWeek: Knowledge
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. –2 Peter 1:3 Said differently: It is through our knowledge of Him that He has given us all we need for a godly life. 2 thoughts on the matter: This…