Tag: Jesus
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The Undiscovered Country
Sometimes change is painful. We may get so miserable in our current state that we take a step or two toward change. But then we feel that resistance. We feel those uncomfortable feelings of unfamiliar territory. And so we retreat. We “change back.”
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The Talking Dead
Perhaps you have considered what might be written on your tombstone one day, or what might be said of you at your funeral. We certainly want people to speak well of us when we’re gone. But in a sense we ourselves are still speaking, even after death, through the words that we have planted in…
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Spiritual Growth In Easy Times
Sometimes the storms of life cause a faith to crumble away. When Jesus talked about storms, he describes them as a testing, a proof as to whether we’ve built our house on the rock or on sand. In Jesus’s analogy, what you do before the storm matters. It matters a lot.
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Every Thought Captive
Turning in one’s thought life to God is not easy. We don’t want to give up that kind of freedom. We want to control our own lives, including our thoughts. The problem is, our thoughts begin to control us.
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O You Of Little Faith
Is a small faith okay or isn’t it? I’ve written in the past about how God can take faith as small as a mustard seed and make it grow (Matthew 17:20). We don’t have to be super strong before God will use us. On the other hand, four times in the book of Matthew, Jesus…
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Faith As A Mustard Seed
With predators you don’t have to win; you just have to be more trouble than you’re worth.
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Knowledge, Pride, and Love
Love edifies. If we made it our goal to edify the unbelievers around us, yes, even those who are taking pride in their sin, how might we accomplish it?
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Shame
There is a lot of inappropriate guilt that holds people back unnecessarily. But shame can serve a purpose, and I think it is a mistake to try to banish that feeling altogether.
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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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