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God is Satisfied in You
Read more: God is Satisfied in YouDo you ever feel like you just can’t live up to the life God has called you to? Do you ever feel like you don’t measure up? Have you ever felt like you’re just not enough? If you’ve ever felt inadequate or incapable… insufficient or invisible… a disappointment or a failure… be encouraged. I want…
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Why Love God?
Read more: Why Love God?Why love God? Why want Him? Is He really worth our devotion? Worth our very lives? In effort to love God, I find that I fail every day. So why even keep trying to love Him? Should I give up and stop trying? Surely not. Should I abandon Him? Surely not. For quite some time,…
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Lavish Your Love on Jesus: John 12:3-7
Read more: Lavish Your Love on Jesus: John 12:3-7What a loaded passage. The passage of Mary and Jesus. Her wiping His feet. Anointing Him. Dirtying her hair. Loving the one most precious to her. In the face of ridiculers. In the face of those who didn’t think Jesus was worth that. To humiliate oneself for another was not acceptable. But Mary didn’t care.…
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Until Forever Comes…
Read more: Until Forever Comes…Drip dropping wax ice on glass molten lava ravishing a blade of grass it melts from a flame you can’t touch I tried once hand frozen in place despite the rush of fire seeping into my skin There’s a scar there. I like the reminder it gives me soon it will be…
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Singleness and The Sex Conundrum
Read more: Singleness and The Sex ConundrumThere’s a real conundrum in the life of single people in Christianity. A sex conundrum. Yep. A sex conundrum. The church doesn’t like to talk about it. They pretend that people don’t struggle. But singles in the church are struggling. Most singles are experiencing the conundrum of sexual frustration or guilt and inability to be…
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Seasons of Life
Read more: Seasons of LifeLife is full of seasons. Seasons of health. Seasons of sickness. Seasons of pressure. Seasons of ease. Seasons of excitement. Seasons of disappointment. Seasons of joy. Seasons of despair. Seasons of contentment. Seasons of frustration. These seasons, or cycles, of good and bad perpetuate in my life. And I’m starting to see that it’s the…
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Getting to Know Jesus: Matthew 11
Read more: Getting to Know Jesus: Matthew 11Continuing in our study of Matthew, we see this week in chapter 11 how Jesus handles confusion from John the Baptist, how He handles unrepentance in this 1st century generation, and how He cares for the broken. Last chapter, Jesus began equipping the disciples with all they needed to begin ministry teaching, preaching, healing and…
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Halloween, Love, and Strip Clubs
Read more: Halloween, Love, and Strip ClubsPeople want love. And nightlife offers it. Or so we think. There’s an enchantment to nightlife. Glimmer. Attraction. Allure. It can pull you in like a magnet. And grab you before you realize you’re taken. Halloween landed this weekend so me, my roommate and friends went out. Strolling through uptown with cars barely inching their…
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Running Out of Numbing Solution: When Nothing in Life is Enough
Read more: Running Out of Numbing Solution: When Nothing in Life is EnoughThis has really been a tough season for me in so many different ways. I’ve never felt as low as I do right now, but I’ve never reached a greater epiphany than I have the past several days. For the first time in my life, I’m experiencing what this whole theology of God being enough…
Life and God 