Category: Christian Living
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Selective Reading
I’m sure you’re familiar with the concept of selective listening, and if you’re a parent, you’ve likely accused your children of it. It’s when you listen but only hear the messages you want to hear, while somehow ignoring everything else, even if it’s said. It’s as if you’re deaf to any instruction other than those…
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Strength for the Journey: Spiritual Nourishment in Daily Life
Most Saturday mornings I walk with my sister. It’s such a sweet time of communion and fellowship, not to mention the health benefits. However, this Saturday morning I struggled with lightheadedness and weakness during our walk. This week was very stressful at work, and I often didn’t have time to stop and eat or drink water.…
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In Deed(More than words)
When you have bad news often enough your mind becomes numb to it. You are no longer are shocked by the horrors, the numbers dead, or those that are in need. You just don’t see it anymore. It seems in America we are all inundated with bad news. We hear it so often that we…
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What’s the Point?
What is the point? No one sees or notices me or what I do. This is a big lie that the enemy uses to try to get us off our path, to feel worthless, or to decided we have missed our purpose as believers. What is our purpose? What is the point of it all…
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Every Good and Perfect Gift…
Every good and perfect gift is from the Lord. Literally, every one of them is what that statement means. Do you believe it? Have you even contemplated it before? I was reading a devotion, and it asked the question “what can you thank God for today?” I paused at the question and really thought about…
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Deeper Gratitude
As children we are taught that we should be thankful. Yet we cannot show the deepest gratitude because we lack full understanding. Our father and/or mother puts food out for us to eat. We say “Thank you” because we are hungry and they have given us food.. We appreciate the food but not the effort it took to…
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Just a…
Sometimes we qualify things with the word just. It was just a hello, just a simple card, just another unnoticed and unimportant action or moment. Is it really that simple though? Is there such a thing as just a whatever? How many times can a small thing in our eyes actually be significant? We think when…
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It’s Not the End
“Here we are at last, at the end of all things” that is a line from “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s funny but that moment was not the end at all. It was only an end of their hard journey for a moment. There was more to their story still be witten and lived. More…
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The Commute
Some of you might have to commute long distances to work. I’ve had to a time or two depending on my job. It’s interesting if you look around when you’re commuting what you’ll see. You see what I have seen in my commuting days is lots and lots of vehicles full of lots and lots…
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True Communion
Communion is defined as the sharing of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level. It is also defined as the service of Christian worship at which bread and wine are consecrated and shared. Honestly, I could not count how many times I have participated in communion as…
Devotions For Real Life 