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God Loves to Make You Smile!
Read more: God Loves to Make You Smile!Someone needs to hear this today. Please know it…God loves to make you smile! He loves you. A lot. A lot a lot!!! “Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.” –Isaiah 42:1 Did you…
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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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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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When I Can’t Find A Reason for God to Love Me
Read more: When I Can’t Find A Reason for God to Love MeGod’s love has never seemed fully unconditional to me. Before, I used to try to find reasons for God loving me. Before, there would always be something that I had done that I thought was good, simmering in the back of my mind to validate God’s reason to want to love me. And in the…
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The Secret Place
Read more: The Secret PlaceThere’s a place where the Lord longs to fellowship with us. A place where we can escape every other thing vying for our attention. A place where our circumstances fade in the peace of His comfort. A place where my flesh is rendered powerless. A place where the enemy cannot reach me. The place where the…
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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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The Problem with Shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette
Read more: The Problem with Shows like The Bachelor and The BacheloretteIn my teens, I admit I watched The Bachelor and The Bachelorette religiously. It was normal and popular and attention-grabbing. All my friends watched the show. All the magazines were talking about it. What could it hurt? I used to be confused when my dad would get mad at me for watching it, asking that…
Life and God 