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Advent Devotional: Christmas Day
“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow.” John 15:11 ESV When we think of all the things Jesus said, everything from…
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- Accountability with Grace
- Encouraging Others
- Identity In Christ
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- Pointing others to God
- Prayer
- Relationships
- Shame & Shame-based identity
Advent Devotional: Day 3
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare (good-NLT, prosper-NIV) and not for evil (harm-NIV, disaster-NLT), to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me,…
Advent Devotional: Day 2
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 2:11 ESV We put our hope in so many things—people are a common focus, especially leaders. I believe we are not alone in this. We saw God provide a visual pillar to lead His chosen through the wilderness. We…
Advent Devotional: Day 1
“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of scriptures we might have hope.” Romans 15:4 ESV The news comes and the anxiety starts. My mind starts racing and the planner in me starts to panic. I learned early in life if I over…
Advent Devotional: Introduction to Week One – Hope
Isaiah prophesied about the Messiah in approximately 740 BC. God’s children heard it and, I would imagine, got fired up about a Savior coming to rule them. Their sights were on an earthly King, but that was not God’s plans. He knew we needed more than a physical governor. The expectation would have been like…
There’s a story that need to come out…
How do you talk about the tough subjects with others in a way that makes them feel comfortable? Or is it something we need to adjust for their comfort? Sean Dietrich posted a blog about suicide this morning. Let’s face it, there is no comfortable way to approach this subject. I have openly talked about…
Hello God
How is your image of God? Has it stayed the same since you became a Christ follower? Have you framed Him with worldly characteristics? How about trust? Do you trust God completely? Enough to open your hands completely in every single situation? I became a Christian at the age of eleven. I had no idea…
Angel Oak Tree
Have you ever looked at trees and marveled at how a small nut could produce a tree as big as the Angel Oak Tree? I was sitting on the porch looking at the tree tops here in Birmingham. Noticing all the branches reaching out and somewhat up. Then in my mind’s eye I saw the…
Water, Water, Everywhere
There’s something about water that makes me either sigh or cry. And sometimes it is both. I looked up water in the Blue Letter Bible app and it says that “water’ occurs in 409 verses. That is a good number of times. With the recent events in our country, water seems to have a power…
The Big Pause
What makes you “give a big pause”? What if I told you there’s a word that appears in the Bible seventy-four times, would it give you pause? I recently started looking for a decorative something to hang on my wall in my kitchen. I was thinking a word maybe two from scripture. Went to Etsy…