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Mon Mar 30-Letting Go To Hold On

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Trusting each other seems to be almost impossible anymore. We have become convinced we can’t trust our leaders, our government, our neighbors-we’ve come to believe that there’s really no one we can trust. And without trust in the present, we feel there’s no hope for the future. In short, we’re all left feeling hopeless.

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Fri Mar 27-Pleasing God

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Earlier this week, on March 22, Pastor Joe’s Sunday message addressed the courage of the women who followed Jesus to the cross. In that spirit today’s devotional finds us reflecting on how Paul and his earliest followers, who were mainly women, acted courageously in their journey from non-believers in

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Thu Mar 26-Courage!

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When I think about courage, I always think about the Lion’s speech in the Wizard of Oz. The Lion gives a compelling speech, but in the end, he does not even convince himself, as he declares that courage is the thing he ain’t got!

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Wed Mar 25-A Bold Ask

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It wasn’t typical for bodies to be taken down from the cross. Rome often left crucified bodies hanging as a public warning to anyone considering rebellion against the Empire. The message was clear: “this is what happens to those who oppose Rome.”

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Tue Mar 17-Two Are Better Than One

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We thought we were prepared to handle twins on our own. Then our twins were born two months early. It was overwhelming, but then an army of people assembled to help us. I needed to go to the hospital everyday, and someone would show up to drop me off

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Mon Mar 16-Community of Believers

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The full, formal title of this book of the Bible is “The Acts of the Apostles.” There is a shift in
content from Luke’s Gospel, which is about Jesus, to Acts, which concerns the life and work of
the church, of the community of believers. This is the first of several summaries

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