Category: Character of Christ
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Trials of Many Kinds
Recently, I’ve been reflecting a lot on life and its challenges. I’ve written about the importance of approaching the Lord with sincerity and seeking His help when we need it. Our faith strengthens through exercise, and we all know that it gets exercised only when we actively use and work it. Often, it’s the difficulties…
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Live Like Jesus… (Know when to Rest)
Previously I spent time writing about what it meant to be like Jesus. After all we’re called Christians which means Christ like, so what does Christlike mean? What was Jesus really like? I investigated several aspects of Jesus life: How he was an example of studying and knowing the word of God, how he used the…
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The Hands and Feet of Jesus
I’ve never been a person who has wanted to need anything from anyone. I know that sounds like wisdom in some respects because it is good to be independent and try to take care of your own problems, right? Yet I’m coming to realize that there’s a negative side effect to this kind of self-reliance…
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Free to Struggle
Lately I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about how to live like Jesus lived. To follow his example and model of loving, study, and more. Today though I find myself thinking about how much I don’t live like him. Have you ever felt like that? Like an unsuccessful Christian. Have you ever felt like…
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True Humility (Be Like Jesus Part 3)
In the past few devotions, we have looked at how Jesus was a model to us as believers on how to live. He demonstrated loving by meeting seemingly insignificant needs and accepting all people including those that others think are unimportant. Also, we have looked at how Christ is an example of study, using God’s…
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Live Like Jesus Part 2
Recently, I wrote about how Christ modeled the life of study for us that we can follow. We should take in God’s word and actively use it as Christ did. I want to dig in deeper to the idea of being like Jesus and what that means. Let’s look at another way that Christ has…
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Live Like Jesus
Most of my life I have heard it said or been instructed to live like Jesus. What does that really mean though? How did Jesus live? In his early life there are very few things recorded. One of the events that’s recorded is surrounding a particular trip to Jerusalem where Jesus’s parents lost track of…
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A Call to Humble Faithfulness
I was listening to a talk that was being given and I heard a phrase I had heard before but I heard it in a new way. For two days now that phrase has been turning over in my mind. ”God hasn’t called you to be successful, he has called us to be faithful.” Wow,…
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The Proverbial Tag Dilemma
In front of me at church is a girl with the tag showing. Maybe you like me have been in a similar position, I’m almost positive you have at one point or another. The position where someone in front of you has something that is not right that they can’t see but you can because…
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The Mighty Can Fall
There are certain things that we look at that we see as innately strong, invincible even. Whether it’s because of the materials that have been used to construct it or the longevity of the materials. Things like the Titanic that was called unsinkable when it was created. After all, it was made with the latest…
Devotions For Real Life 