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As Easy and As Hard as Remembering the Gospel

March 15, 2014
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| Categories: Grace

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We have so many choices each day.  Some are simple: Do I want salad or a PBJ for lunch? Other decisions sound simple but are really much more complex.

For instance…

The decision to rest in the gospel…or resist it.  To move from wasteland to graceland thinking and living.

The decision we make there determines whether we live like a child of God or like an orphan.

How many times a day do you encounter this decision?

For me, I’m convinced I’m making a decision either way multiple times each hour of the day.

In Craving Grace, Ruthie Delk…

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His Care, A Child’s Response

August 7, 2013
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| Categories: Ministry and Serving, Spiritual Growth, Yielding and Waiting

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I was a young Christian just beginning to serve the church.  I had just finished teaching my preschool Sunday School class when I saw the commotion.  I went back inside my room because I knew who this child was and what was going on. I knew that she experienced seizures frequently and that her mother was used to handling them.

My co-teacher, Jenny, had already raced to her aid.  Jenny was one of those friends who always seemed more capable than myself.  I was often amazed but also a bit fearful around her as she was highly…

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A Gentle Identity Reminder

June 27, 2013
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| Categories: Encouragement, Who we are in Christ / Identity of a believer

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Heartbreaking mommy moment #?:  “Mommy, I’m a dork.”

So we have a talk about words.

We talk about who we most truly are.  How we can believe what God says instead of what our feelings say.

In the course of any given week, it is possible for me to hear many self-demeaning statements and other-demeaning statements.   At each little league baseball game this summer I heard a mom yell demeaning things at her son.  I read of others being demeaned or demeaning themselves on Facebook almost daily.  I find it impossible to find a show on…

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Amazed at Adoption

October 8, 2012
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| Categories: Who we are in Christ / Identity of a believer

“I have my forever home!  I have been adopted!”  I can just imagine what my friend’s adopted daughter was thinking on her way to the U.S. after leaving the Ukraine and at least four years of being an orphan.  I remember the long years of waiting with my friend…the praying and the crying…the wondering of who it would be.

This would’ve been my exclamation too upon becoming a Christian…but I didn’t really understand at that point all of my new realities…

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