Tag: God
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Pride v. Shame
I was a schoolgirl know-it-all. People praised me for being smart and that made me feel good about myself… until I would say something foolish, make a mistake, or meet up with someone smarter than I. Then my pride began to buckle under the weight of another emotion: shame.
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When God Doesn’t Answer
If you knew for a fact that God was not going to change any of your most negative life circumstances, what would you do?
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Discretion Advised
I have often wondered whether Old Testament Joseph meant to brag in telling his dreams to his family. He was quite young, maybe 15 or 16 at the time. At that age did he have any experience with dream analysis? Maybe he really had no idea how his dreams would come across to his parents…
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Forsake Me Not
One of our elders recently asked us, before partaking of communion, to think of someone we are really close to, someone we trust and rely on, like a spouse, a parent, or a child. Then he asked us to imagine the pain we would feel if that person turned on us.
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Internet Hiatus
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that, as useful as the internet can be, too much screen time is a problem. We all know it. But it’s a hard habit to break.
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Hyper-Linked Lives
The number of Bible cross-references is quite impressive, but what’s equally staggering are the innumerable connections each of us has with countless other people throughout our lives.
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When Someone Saves Your Life
Can you think of a time when you said thank you and you really meant it?
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Bearing Fruit In Old Age
Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age. Psalm 92:13-14a For as long as I can remember we’ve had a spineless yucca tree at our school. I have no idea who brought it and left it there,…
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It Takes One To Know One
You probably know the old saying, “it takes one to know one,” but why is it so much easier to see any given fault in someone else than it is to see it in ourselves? Could it be that God brought Israel face to face with a picture of their own unrighteousness magnified so that…
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