Category: Hope
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Touched by tragedy
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also. Psalm 31:9 Terror filled San Bernardino this week. America was touched by tragedy once again. Friends, co-workers, first responders, families, neighbors, and communities are grieving, comforting each other, and praying. Evil visited…
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Do you know the Holy?
Have you tried to grasp the wonder of the nature of God? “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 And yet,…
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Grace & Freedom when we Lay It Down!
Freedom. Freedom to be what God intended us to be. Freedom to rest in Him. Freedom to let God work. Freedom. Lay It Down is about Gospel freedom. Lay It Down is not about performance … it’s about freedom to live abundantly in all that we were created to be … it’s about freedom to live…
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5 years healed!
A stranger walked up to me and gave me this heavy kite. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks…
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Imagine mercy in Paris, in the world
Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5:7 This weekend, there was an attack upon humanity. This weekend, evil visited Paris, France. This weekend, the world grieves. This weekend, the world needs mercy. This weekend, Davide Martello loaded his piano on a trailer and drove from Germany to Paris, a 400-mile trek…
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Thank You for freedom
Greater love has no man than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.…
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Pursue righteousness passionately
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Matthew 5:6 In the first three Beatitudes, Jesus focused upon His followers’ recognition of their emptiness: “poor in spirit,” “mournful over sin,” and “meek, not defending ourselves.” As a result of our emptiness, we crave something to fill us. Like Isaiah…
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Inherit the earth … Jesus loves you
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 Church; a big, well-worn Bible; fishing; watermelon and rhubarb pie; many conversations about Jesus. These are some of my memories of my Momo and Popo. They laughed; they loved; they prayed; they served; they worshipped. They helped plant a church in a poor…