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Blame and Control

When we start asking God to handle areas in our life where we are experiencing bondage, it’s often a painful process. When God wants to deal with a hidden area of our life, He starts to draw it out in the open. We are confronted with things in our life that we would rather notContinue reading “Blame and Control”

We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends

1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.“ We all need encouragement in our lives. Life gets heavy. It gets hard. As the days move forward toward the return of the Lord, there is more and more evil around us. It’s easy to become discouraged. ManyContinue reading “We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends”

The Church of Pergamum: A Study of Revelations

We’re in week three of our seven week series looking at the letters to the churches in Revelations. You can catch up on weeks one and two here and here. Quick review: The apostle John wrote the book of Revelations while exiled on the island of Patmos. In chapter one, Jesus appears to John andContinue reading “The Church of Pergamum: A Study of Revelations”

Closer than a Brother

Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.“ We’ve all heard about fair weather friends. They’re the kind of friends who are nice to you and encourage you when life is going good, but when you’re down on your luck or facing adversity, these friendsContinue reading “Closer than a Brother”

Homemaking: Meeting With God

There are times in my life when I get discouraged about my spiritual walk. There is so much to do around the house and so much to do with raising children and homeschooling that I feel like I just sit down to pray after getting everyone to bed and I fall asleep myself. Cue thatContinue reading “Homemaking: Meeting With God”

Keep Your Edge

Proverbs 27:17 (MSG) “You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.” Our friendships matter. We often become like the people we hang around with most. If we’re hanging around good people who are serving the Lord and on different parts of the same path that we are on, we are encouraged inContinue reading “Keep Your Edge”

Planting Your Garden: Pulling Weeds

Last week, we talked about planting our gardens by discussing the kinds of seeds we allow to be planted in our hearts. We discussed how not only is it important that our hearts contain the right kind of soil–good soil, willing and ready to receive the seeds that are planted in it–but how it’s alsoContinue reading “Planting Your Garden: Pulling Weeds”

Sacrificial Love

John 15:12-14 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.“ Oftentimes, when we read these verses of Scripture, we think about our friends and how much we love them.Continue reading “Sacrificial Love”

The Last Days

In Acts 2 when Peter is preaching to the crowd he tells them that what is happening among them is in fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel which says: “In the last days, God says I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will seeContinue reading “The Last Days”

Working Together

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can oneContinue reading “Working Together”