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What Do You Desire Most?
Read more: What Do You Desire Most?(You can listen to my message on this same topic at http://fbcbf.com/sermons/what-do-you-desire-most) As human beings, we are so needy for love and respect. God knows this full well. He designed us to be that way. One might think it’s rather cruel for God to create us with such unquenchable desire, but ironically this exists as…
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A Tainted Love and The Sandwich of Trust
Read more: A Tainted Love and The Sandwich of TrustThe farther I traverse this life with my Savior, I find that He is so complex. So unfathomable. So brilliant. So indescribable. And yet as I get to know Him more and more, I become increasingly aware of how sinful I truly am. Though I desire to know Jesus and pursue Christlikeness, I struggle with…
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When God Doesn’t Give You What You Ask For
Read more: When God Doesn’t Give You What You Ask ForSometimes I wonder why God remains silent. Why He doesn’t answer us when we expect Him to. Why He doesn’t give me what I ask for. There are times when I feel like God remains seemingly inactive in my life. In these moments when I find my circumstances overwhelming and less than favorable, I know…
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There’s Gotta Be Something More: Waiting for an “Aha” Moment
Read more: There’s Gotta Be Something More: Waiting for an “Aha” MomentFor so many of us, we live in a constant state of looking towards the future. Waiting for what’s next. Waiting for our lives to finally fall into place. Waiting for something more. If I’m not careful, I can find myself thinking these thoughts over and over again. So often I’ve thought that if I…
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Brokenness Met by Jesus
Read more: Brokenness Met by JesusIn my life I’ve felt like it’s not okay to want certain things. In effort to please God, I feel like I need to sacrifice certain things that rival Him so that I won’t get to a place where He is not first in my life. And I chastise my desire on the cutting room…
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Muscle Memory, New Instincts, and Trusting in what God says about You
Read more: Muscle Memory, New Instincts, and Trusting in what God says about YouEncouraging others about their worth and forgiveness in Christ can be easy for me….but trying to encourage myself, now that can be difficult at times. It seems that in my darkest moments of guilt, shame and discouragement, there are times when I can’t push through my feelings enough to believe what the Bible says about…
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Overcoming Discouragement
Read more: Overcoming DiscouragementHave you ever had one of those days where the smallest thing sets you off? One of those days where everything has gone right until that one moment… and it’s as if reality is crumbling before your eyes. All because of one bad move. One bad conversation. One bad decision. One bad thought. And you…
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Small Steps of Victory
Read more: Small Steps of VictoryDaily life as a Christian can be an overwhelming undertaking at times. There are decisions that require us to sacrifice and trust, there are moments when we must turn the other cheek, moments when we must forgive and let go, there are relationships that we must foster and give preference to over ourselves, and there…