Bible. Faith. Life.
Bible. Faith. Life.
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Interruptions can be Blessings in Disguise As I type, I’m sitting in a “borrowed” home eight hours away from my house with The Weather Channel playing in the background. We’ve watched it faithfully, glued to its forecasts and information about hurricane Florence and the flooding that has ensued. Life has been interrupted. I didn’t really mind at first, but now we find …
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How young were you the first time you experienced rejection? Personally, I know rejection entered my life at a very young age, probably in kindergarten. But my first vivid memory of this painful human experience happened in middle school. Jason Smith asked me to “go” with him, and I told him I had to think about it. So, his …
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The struggle is real. Our identity is so important to us, but it’s hard to capture our true self in a world constantly telling us who we should be. Rather than who we are in Christ, we let the mirror be our judge, or our circumstances, or the scale. When we were kids we found our identity in how others …
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If you’re in the trenches trying to find joy in your life, you are not alone. A few months ago, I wrote about this struggle in an article entitled, “If I’m a Christian, Why Am I Not Happy?” Here’s a piece of that post. It’s a reason why we face this giant: “. . . . when the struggle …
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I think of “rest” when I think of summer. It’s the season of vacations, hammocks, and slowing down. But summer was only like that when I was seven. The lazy hazy days of summer no longer exist unless I intentionally make them days of rest. Life is like that; isn’t it? We have to be intentional about everything that’s important to …