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Emotional Baggage
Sometimes you can think of your mental and emotional health as a bag. You carry it with you wherever you go, and it has different things in it depending on where you've been, where you're at, and where you're going. Sometimes the bag is light and easy. Sometimes the...
Achsah and Othniel
In Joshua 15:15-19 and Judges 1:11-15, we are introduced to a woman named Achsah and a man named Othniel. Achsah was the daughter of Caleb, the man who had followed God when his peers hadn't, causing him to outlive his peers and maintain enough strength to still be...
Aging Very Gracefully
I've been thinking about a couple people in the Bible who aged much more than just gracefully, and I wonder what that must have been like to witness. Moses lived to be 120 years old. When he died, the Bible says he was still in good condition. His eyesight was still...
Wisdom I’ve Heard
I hear a few pieces of wisdom from time to time. This wisdom often comes when I least expect it. Sometimes it comes from strangers as I'm going about life, sometimes from friends as we just chat. Whatever the source, I always write it down so I can remember it. If...
Our Relationship with God
Something important stuck out to me again in a sermon last night: God takes our relationship with Him more seriously than we do. From God's first interactions with the first humans and on down history, God has always been more serious about this relationship than we...
God’s Mercy and Grace for Granted
In church yesterday morning, something in the sermon stuck out at me: When God's justice surprises us or causes us to take pause, could it be because we've taken His mercy and grace for granted? God is merciful and just at the same time, but sometimes we focus more on...