Wed Jan 7-Faith Without Knowing
Keeping our faith strong is not an easy thing to do. As we move through life, we encounter countless obstacles that test our trust in God. This struggle is not new.
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Tue Jan 6-Hope For Your Future
As I write this I’m sitting in the emergency room with my mom. It seems the whole human drama is playing out around us. So many are sick and in pain, some are confused, some are unconscious, some are calling out for help. And then there’s the waiting. Waiting to be seen,
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Mon Dec 5-Refugees
Few Christians spend much time reading these verses about the life of that young boy, Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph. We tend to merge the birth stories of Matthew and Luke, ignoring the fact that these two birth stories are more mythological than factual. In our verses from yesterday,
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Thu Jan 1-A New Year Prayer
It is too easy for us to project our shortcomings onto God. Where we are often conditional with love, God never is. Where we hold grudges, God never does. Where we wake up in a bad mood, well God never sleeps but His love is new every morning.
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Wed Dec 31-Our Joy is Secure
The difference between joy and secular happiness is that the latter depends on what happens; it is circumstantially driven.
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Tue Dec 30-Sit Down, Slow Down, Phone Down
Total celebration – fullness of joy – abundance of joy. This is what it means to be in God’s presence. Do you remember the last time you experienced that level of joy?
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Mon Dec 29-Christmas Is Over, Now What?
I’m writing this on December 26th. Christmas is over. After all of the preparations, baking, shopping, wrapping, decorating, parties, and eating, the day is now a memory. Now what do we do?
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Fri Dec 26-Born From God
But those who did welcome Jesus, those who believed in his name, he authorized to become God’s children—born not from blood nor from human desire or passion, but born from God.
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Thu Dec 25-Making Room for Everyone
Can you see it in your mind’s eye? Can you imagine those lowly shepherds, watching over their flock in darkness one minute, the next minute, suddenly blinded by the light of God’s Kin-dom crashing in through time and space. Awe struck by God’s glory the shepherds fall to the ground
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Wed Dec 24-The Birth of Jesus
As I reflect once again on the birth of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke, I think about how the birth of a child (especially the first baby) is not so different today. I am not surprised that Mary seems to have given birth to her baby shortly after arriving in Bethlehem.
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Tue Dec 23-Longing for Truth
Oh, how we long for truth in these times. We ache for leaders who decide what is right and just—not by what polls well, not by what looks good on the surface, and certainly not by what benefits them personally. Where are such people to be found?
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Fri Dec 19-Iron Sharpens Irons
Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” tells us that positive close relationships help people grow.
