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Are You Accepting These Gifts from Christ?
Have you ever given someone a gift they truly appreciated? You see their eyes light up with excitement, they wonder if it is truly theirs, and their heart is full of gratitude. Or maybe, you’ve seen the opposite to be true. You find the “perfect” gift for your loved one, but then realize you were far more excited about the gift than the person...
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You Can Change Your Heart With Your Posture
A few years ago, my husband read several books on the subject of body language and still has this incredible ability to read people just by observing them. He can tell what you think about an idea just by how you stand during a conversation. Our Lead Pastor will tell you it’s easier to speak to a group of people who are smiling, shaking...
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Can We Skip The Hard Stuff And Get to The End?
-written by Devin Feeney I don’t know about you, but I find the ambiguity of life both frustrating and terrifying. As I end college, I’m learning more and more that life is a process in which God grows and refines us. Which leads me to ask, “What storms am I going to face and can I avoid them?” Up until now, life has been...
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Are You Living With The Power of The Resurrection?
Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? – Luke 24:5 The angels at the tomb spoke these words to Mary Magdalene as she was going to prepare Jesus’ body. In a moment with a single sentence, her world was fully transformed. The resurrection is the very foundation of our faith and source of our salvation. Without it, Jesus was just...
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Have You Experienced the Living Water in Your Life?
I had the privilege of going on this year’s summer mission trip to Nicaragua. It was my first time to that country, but not my first trip to a Hispanic country as Karen and I were missionaries in Mexico for five years. Going into the trip, I felt like I had a pretty good understanding of the culture. I learned there was a lot...
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You Can Remain Hopeful in the Storm
When I first saw the Sea of Galilee, I was overwhelmed with excitement and joy. We checked into our hotel in Tiberius and I immediately put on my bathing suit, grabbed a towel, and ran down to the small shoreline. The water was pretty cold, but I just went for it and dove in. With mountains surrounding every side, I wondered how these waters...
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When Love Looks You in the Face
Growing up there was always a special bond between my mother and I. There’s an unattributed quote that says “There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son.” And that especially rings true with my life, because if my mother’s love wasn’t straight from God, I’d be dead. I found this...
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People Need to Hear Your Testimony of Grace
In John 4 we read about Jesus encountering a Samaritan woman, a woman who had absolutely zero value in the eyes of the world. Not only because she was a woman, but also because she was a Samaritan, a race that the Jewish people considered to be a half-breed. The third strike against her is that she had also had five husbands and was currently...
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Are You Living Out This Spiritual Oxymoron?
The dictionary defines an oxymoron as a “figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.” Thank you for the useless help, Mr. Webster. I think that was an oxymoron. Useless help. Examples will serve us better: open secret, deafening silence, minor crisis, jumbo shrimp. I was talking with a man in Texas about oxymorons and he immediately burped out, intelligent preacher....
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Are You Stepping Out In Faith?
Something that I love to do is exercise. Working out for me is a time to relax, as contradictory as that sounds. Lifting weights, running, anything along those lines is a mindless activity for me. It’s time I get to hang out with the guys and my fiancé. It’s a way to better myself. When I get in a workout routine, my body quickly adapts...
