I don’t want my daughter doing everything I, her earthly parent, does. I make many mistakes, and I’m not always the best example. But we have a perfect role model in Jesus, for God’s son does his father’s will.
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God had gifted me with a brain—a really great one, in fact! So why wasn’t I looking at God’s Word with the same sharp eye? Why wasn’t I using the brain He’d given me to explore and read for myself what was in there?
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I had the opportunity to serve as a confirmation mentor to nine eighth-grade girls that culminated this past weekend, and wow, was my own faith extraordinarily transformed!
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I used to think of the Holy Spirit as a docile whisperer, nudging me toward something God wanted me to do, see, or think. But in the Book of Acts, the Spirit isn’t exactly polite or gentle. It comes like a lion, fierce and bold and calling for immediate action!
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When we despise our bodies, or when we allow others to make us feel anything less than wonderful, we’re not just picking on ourselves. We’re picking at the glorious creation of our heavenly Father. My latest blog.
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“Shh, Mom, don’t pray so loud!” The old me might have been concerned about how it looked to others. Not the new me.
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The Bible has so many examples of God using the difficult and even catastrophic for good, and then we realize—He was there all along.
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I didn’t really see why it was such a big deal if I said a bad word here or there or told a little fib to preserve the feelings of a sensitive friend. Yet here’s the thing: Sin is defined as when we offend God. It’s when we put something of the world before God, or when we take the easy, feel-good path instead of the right or honorable one.
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Thinking about our dog and his great capacity for love, I wonder if the way I’m treating God, the center of my universe, stacks up. When God calls or whispers, do I say, “Yes! God! I’m here!” all eager and excited, ready to drop all my plans for Him? Or do I put him off, ask Him to hang on while I take care of whatever I was doing?
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