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Mold Me and Make Me
Art class was one of my favorite things about eighth grade. If you’ve ever had an art lesson with my former teacher, you know one of her favorite things to say is “draw what you see—not what you think you see.” This concept permeated every aspect of the class, from our still-life acrylic paintings to…
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The Power of Noticing
If you know me well, you know I love a good sunset. In fact, I have an alarm set on my phone right now to remind me to step outside and watch it tonight. With every sunset, God proves once again that He is infinitely creative. As the sun says goodbye for now, and the…
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Yours
It had been three long days. Three days of waiting, three days of questioning, three days of wondering how long God would wait to reveal His plan. On the third day, Christ arose in victory, bringing with Him the promise of the resurrection. But there’s another “third day” we often forget about. Three days after…
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First Fruits
Understanding the concept of tithing has seemingly been a long journey for me. Granted, I have hopefully come a long way since I was five (and believed that our tithes were placed in the coffins of departed church members, where they would be carried to heaven). But even once this belief was shattered, and I…
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Walk in Freedom
The concept of freedom is one that permeates every element of our world. We talk of religious freedom, financial freedom, national freedom, individual freedom, moral freedom, social freedom, and for Americans, we speak of the freedoms described in our Bill of Rights. You might think that these conversations and the ideologies related to them would…
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Season of Waiting
“Season of waiting.” We’ve all heard it. Most of us have used it to describe some time we or others have experienced. The words have a nice flow to them. They even sound…aesthetic. They and the voices that discuss them might lead us to believe these “seasons” are rather peaceful and calm, if uninteresting at…
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Our Daily Bread
“Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). The verse above is a part of the well-known model prayer (“The Lord’s Prayer”) that Christ gave us in His Sermon on the Mount. The concept of “daily bread” would certainly have resonated with the Hebrew audience as a poignant reminder of the places God had…
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Hannah
This is the first installment in my series of posts, “People of Prayer”. Hannah—one of the spiritual greats, mentioned by every “women of the Bible” devotional, modeled by others, respected for her faith…it’s interesting to me that we know so little of this woman’s complete history, yet she has become such a well-known figure in…
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Spiritual Stewardship
In Matthew 25, Jesus gives us a parable about a master who left home, leaving his three servants with three different amounts of money. With one servant he leaves five talents; by the time the master returns, the five talents were turned into ten. With another servant the master leaves two talents; this servant returns…
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Hidden with Christ
“Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:2-3 Many of us are probably familiar with these two verses quoted above. But one of the last times I read it, the phrase “your life…
Steadfast, Immovable, Abounding 