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Endless Grace Endless Love
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness . . ....
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Every Good and Perfect Gift
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. — James 1:17In the middle of a stiff winter wind she asks to...
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The Opportunity for Great Joy
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. — James 1:2“What in the world were you thinking? How many times have we said no running? I am just . ....
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Bible Study of the Week Ann Voskamp’s a farm girl. That book she scratched out, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, is about what […]The post One Thousand Gifts – Video Bible...
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A Lifestyle of Thanksgiving
When children sleep under the scraps stitched into quilts and the clock ticks too loudly through the dark hours and the spiral galaxies spin in space, I lie under the afghan by the fire and read the...
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Giving Thanks in the Small Things
Some days I pick up a camera and it’s a hammer. The lens is my ink, for cameras have sensor eyes, and pixels record. I slide it into a pocket, a thin point-and-shoot, and find another way to chronicle,...
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Ugly Grace
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things. - Colossians 1:19-20 The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl...
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Grief and God… and Manna Grace
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes...
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A Return to Glory and Grace: God’s Wild, Secretive Plan
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story. Satan, he wanted more. More power, more glory. Ultimately, in his essence, Satan is an ingrate. And he sinks his venom into the heart of...
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Giving Thanks In Everything
I sit at the prayer bench before my bedroom window. Outside, our boys roll millions of flakes into a snow fort. I read the passage, one I remember from the musty basement of the Knox Presbyterian...
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Hard Grace
Everything is eucharisteo. Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure all things — take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that...
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Amaryllis Grace: Joy is Worth the Wait
Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand. — Isaiah 14:24 Why in the world, everywhere I turn, every page, always death? I’d like some happy,...
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Humble Grace: Humility Comes Before Happiness
God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth. — Matthew 5:5 NLT I’m standing in a mudroom, sorting children’s dribbled shirts, grass-stained jeans. I live in laundry. How to...
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Endless Grace, Endless Love
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness . . ....
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Thinking Grace
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess His name. — Hebrews 13:15 When the rope pulls tight, Levi holds on — and it looks...
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The Opportunity for Great Joy
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. — James 1:2 “What in the world were you thinking? How many times have we said no running? I am just…”...
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Dark Grace: God Wastes Nothing
In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will. — Ephesians 1:11 When the night sky frays to day,...
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Comforting Grace
Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. — Isaiah 49:13 I hear it on Sunday,...
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Being the Gift the World Needs
Cruciform self-giving is the distinctive dimension of holiness. — Michael Gorman I’d been dangerously anemic for weeks, feeling like I was a wet sheet of paper and the story was falling apart right in...
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The Miracle in Your Pocket That Breaks Stress
You are to pay special attention to those who by accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ~ Saint Augustine A day is a pocket of possibility and it’s...
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