Category: Discipleship
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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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Would You Rather?
If someone offered you untold treasure, but you had to let go of everything in your hands to take it, would you rather keep everything you already have or receive all that is being offered in Christ? Sometimes, I play the “Would You Rather” game with my friends. It’s always interesting to see what people…
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Location Matters
A little while ago I was given a plant. The person who gave me the aloe plant said that they had it growing in abundance in their backyard. That it had spread in such large amounts that they were potting it and giving it away. Basically, I was given a very healthy and vibrant aloe…
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Counting the Cost…
I raked my yard with my son. My boys had gone out previously and piled up the leaves into large piles. There were so many leaves. While bagging up the leaves my son said maybe it would be better if we did not have the trees or maybe if we only had one tree so…
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The Hardest thing to do…
Why is the right thing always the hardest thing to do? That’s what I asked my friend today. I had to make the right choice, but it was also the most difficult choice and one I had been running from. There will be times in your walk with the Lord when he speaks to you,…
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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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One Small Light
I was sitting at the piano before church during worship practice and I looked to the side. There was this one little spotlight sitting in the corner all by itself. This one light, just a small part of the lighting system in our church shined. This singular light got me thinking about how we are…
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Do You Hear Him Calling?
One of my favorite slightly older worship songs is “He knows my name.” It is a song that declares “he knows my name, he knows my every thought, he sees each tear that falls, and he hears me when I call.” Can you say that today? Do you believe it? If you struggle to believe…
Devotions For Real Life 