Category: God
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God’s Holiness Revealed
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. Exodus 20:2 This is one of my favorite verses in all of scripture. The LORD your God. God says I am yours. This scripture comes right before the 10 Commandments of…
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Love.
Love: affection for a person or an object. There are many different attributes we could apply to the word love and most be appropriate. However, when we examine the word love from God’s Point of view, we get a very different picture of what love is. Love is the foundation…
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Hope.
Hope: the desire to see something happen or become true. It is hard to survive without hope. Because of this, we tend to put our hope in objects, experiences, and people. This leads us to great disappointments when our expectations are unrealistic and mismanaged. We need to place our hope…
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Faith.
Yesterday I wrote faith is: simply putting trust or confidence in something or someone and having a belief that is not based on proof. Worldly faith is different from the faith I am addressing here. A great example of the faith we are talking about can be found in 1…
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Only These Remain.
Paul gets right to the heart of the matter in 1 Corinthians 13. CHapter 13 of first Corinthians is commonly called the chapter on love. After describing the word love in detail, he finishes the chapter by saying that these things will last forever: faith, hope, and love. 13 Now these…
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Forgiveness transforms a New way to walk and see.
I can imagine, if you have read all five days of forgiveness you are sitting there thinking, this all sounds good, but my heart still hurts and that person who hurt me has never even said they were sorry. I get it. I had been waiting almost a decade for…
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My Anger
Yesterday I wrote about preparing our hearts every morning for forgiveness. Forgiveness is an action. It is continued cooperation with Jesus everyday of our lives. It produces kindness and compassion through the Holy Spirit to walk in a spirit of forgiveness. Yet, even though we we prepare each day to…
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A Heavy Heart
Jesus taught us in Matthew 6 the perfect prayer to pray each day to help us get ahead of any offences we might encounter. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray. This prayer is known today as the Lord’s Prayer. Today, let us look upon and note the parts Jesus…
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When unchangeable feels unforgivable
When unchangeable feels unforgivable it feels like someone has taken something from you that you will never get back. When the outcome seems so final you can not get your bearings about you to go on. When they hurt you so deeply you fear normal is never going to come…
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Why is forgiveness a double edged sword?
32 And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. Ephesians 4:32 How often do we define our lives by life before and after a deep hurt? How many today are stuck in the agonizing and horrific season of pain and suffering? The conversation that…
It Starts Small 