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Blame First, Forgive Next
This post is one piece of a great collaborative effort. Head over to Kelly Balarie’s post for encouraging excerpts and links to tons of bloggers’ fantastic testimonies on the Lord’s work in their lives. When I tell my husband about an incident and the way it hurt my heart, he listens. Patient as usual. My…
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What God Has For You Today
It’s a new day. What if it’s a good one? God has a few things for his followers today (and everyday.) They’ll make whatever your schedule holds better. You don’t have to take them or appreciate them, but you can if you’d like. His offer is free and wide open. What’s His offer? Read the…
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Word of the Week: Peace
Ironically, “peace” is a confusing concept Biblically. Without any word study at all we observe that Christ at once claims He did not come to bring peace (Matthew 10:34) and at the same time Christ claims He is our peace (Eph 2:14.) The definition of peace clarifies, citing that peace is: A sense of welfare…
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In Peace We Trust
{The twelfth and final installment in the In ____We Trust Series} Each and every topic in this series has convicted me. They’ve all added up. Here’s what I’m finding as I wrap it up… Every “thing” I trust in besides God, I trust in with one goal in my heart. Obtaining peace. I want the…
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Word of the Week: Still
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God’” –Psalm 46:10 Busy, busy. Becky just wrote about our false trust in “doing” through busyness. It’s a tough one to accept because our busyness is a habitual coping mechanism. No more. Be still. This word the Lord uses can also be translated “sink” or “relax.”…
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In Busy We Trust
{The eleventh installment in the In ____We Trust Series} Glad to have Becky here today- she believes in embracing grace in the messy real of life. At My Ink Dance, she captures hard, uncomfortable, often unspoken feelings and brings light, honesty and God’s truth to them in a relatable way. Becky is a wife and mother of…
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Word of the Week: Direct
Earlier this week, Carly shared about trusting in plans. She realized her “planning was not enough” and that she “needed God to…make it come together.” The verse she wrote about is a challenging one: “Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy…
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3 (Hopeful) Truths for the Overwhelmed
My calendar always ends up a mess. It seems like everything is happening at once and at the same time like the things that really matter to me aren’t happening at all. I notice plenty of hurry up and wait. In the meantime, I begin to hear the phrase “you can’t do it all.” Every…
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In Planning We Trust
{The tenth installment in the In ____We Trust Series} For open words on life, faith, and the unfailing love of the Lord, visit Carly over at Life In The Spacious Place. So grateful for Carly’s honesty and simple, plain truth-telling way. All my life I have been a planner. I was always the child who…
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Word of the Week: Works
Solomon declared that all of his works brought only vanity and vexation. He drew for us the conclusion that none of our works are meaningful under the sun. Later, He encourages us to enjoy what we do for God approves of those who fear Him and keep His commandments. But in all this, Solomon wasn’t…