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What Attributes of God Can I Image For Others Today?

February 26, 2022
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Mothering Encouragement, Parenting, Renewing the Mind, Spiritual Growth, Thinking, Uncategorized

Is it wrong for me to think I can reflect God?

Humans aren’t perfectly holy, all-present, or all-knowing.

Don’t worry! I don’t propose that we can reflect those kinds of attributes, but if we are in Christ we are enabled and called by God to image other attributes of Himself; the ones He calls His followers to. Imaging them isn’t to be a prideful or self-righteous move; it’s just the opposite. God’s attributes are all based on His perfect love. The essence of His kind of love is kindness, tenderness,…

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As One Who Has Received Grace, Am I Living a Life of Grace?

October 28, 2021
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized

Have you ever heard this heart-wrenching story?

Polish Priest, Maximilian Kolbe, was arrested by the Gestapo for hiding Jews and Polish refugees from the Nazis during World War II. During his time at Auschwitz concentration camp, ten men were rounded up to be starved to death in order to deter further escape attempts by the prisoners. One of the ten men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, began to cry out, “My wife! My children! I will never see them again!” Kolbe was present and was moved to step forward. He removed his cap, and said, “I…

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Love Without Hesitation

September 13, 2014
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| Categories: Ministry and Serving

 

Each day of Vacation Bible School this summer the children tossed spare change and dollar bills into the wicker basket.  Little hearts and hands moved to do something in response to what they were learning and now know.  That 200 women are forced into slavery a day in India.

And that isn’t even the full story.

When you can’t tell young people the atrocities carried out on other human beings, you know you’re dealing with evil.

We called it slavery, modern day slavery.  But it it so much more than that.  Two hundred women are…

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