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Continue reading →: Mothers: Tell your kids to trust the God of their mother.Yesterday at church my pastor taught through the story in Genesis where Jacob wrestles with “a man.” Toward the end of the sermon he referred to the passage in Genesis 32: 9-12 where Jacob prays. And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said…
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Continue reading →: Why you should put your hope in the Jesus of the BibleIt’s Jesus that my friends and family trip over when it comes to faith. They’re OK with a general nameless, faceless deity- a benevolent one. They admit not understanding but throw their hands in the air hoping that God won’t judge them any differently than they judge themselves. They trust…
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Continue reading →: How to study the Bible for love not knowledgeThere is a way to study the Bible solely to be more knowledgeable, more academic, and in itself there’s nothing wrong with being more Bible literate and scholarly. But there’s a huge danger in studying the Bible to know it so well you can add letters to the end of…
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Continue reading →: Hope for a sick heart
“I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope.” Hosea 2:15 This verse came via email to me today like shade in the hot Arizona sun. I used to tolerate the heat in Arizona pretty well, but as the years have…
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Continue reading →: Laughing at promisesOne of my favorite passages in the Bible is in Romans 4:16-17 where it says, “…to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations;- in the presence of God in…
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Continue reading →: I won’t be passive about the evil destroying women and childrenFirst I want to confess, I’m a coward by nature. I, like Pilate, avoid conflict, washing my hands of decisions that might cost me peace. Without the reigns of the Spirit of Jesus in my life, I would trot off down the path of keeping peace, shutting my mouth. I…
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Continue reading →: Practices with your Bible that will keep you humble (and make William Tyndale proud)The accessibility of scripture is something people before us have given their lives for. William Tyndale (1494-1536) laid down his life so that, “… the boy who drives the plow,” could know the scriptures even better than the Pope of his time. The stories of how the translation of the…
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Continue reading →: 45 is a numberbetween 16 and the day after tomorrow it’s a disorienting fog a miry bog to get bogged down in numbers of years years that go by fast days that go by slow slow as the answer that hasn’t yet come to my prayer prayer pray for days and days and…
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Continue reading →: Man shall not live by Prozac aloneIn March, Fathom Mag published an article I wrote about my own struggle to concede my need for an anti-depressant. A wise pastor and friend helped me to see that medication was not an alternative to provision from God. It was a provision from God. I’ve been taking Prozac for…
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Continue reading →: Where the beauty of God is found: Meditation on Ecclesiastes 4:9-10Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! -Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV Last summer, after a week…
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