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“I Love You, Too”
We often say we love God. But we also realize we love Him because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). God was the first one to say "I love you." When God said "I love you," the first time wasn't on the cross with Jesus. That was certainly a huge exclamatory statement,...
Communication Is Key
Communication. The word itself has to do with making common, sharing, or dividing out. It has to do with joining or participating. It is something done between people, not just by one person. The more I experience life and interact with others, the more I realize how...
A Little Bit on Praying
So I asked God to show me some things about prayer. Last night in the sermon I got something that crept up on me like a gentle breeze in the grass and then hit me like a tidal wave. Let me put some context around it. In the Bible when Jesus prayed "not my will but...
You Are What You Eat
As I was reading a devotional (The One Year "Hearing His Voice" Devotional by Chris Tiegreen), I came across words that sparked me to start writing this post. The scripture reference was from Ezekiel when God told Ezekiel to eat the scroll. God wants us to ingest His...
In Order of Difficulty
When I was a kid I learned all kinds of math. The older I got the harder the math became. Sometimes with other things I could get the hard stuff out of the way first and then do the easy stuff, so I wished that with math I could do the hard stuff first so that it got...
The Tugging of Your Faith
Yesterday morning at church we had another pastor speaking for us. He was teaching from Hebrews 11 about Abraham and faith. He talked about how people of faith embrace God's promises (Hebrews 11:13). He told us the Greek for "embrace" there means a "squeeze the...