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Our Words Matter: What Do Careless Words Do?

2/26/2021

Welcome to "Our Words Matter" a 5-part mini-series about using our words wisely and avoiding careless words. Last month we looked at Where Do Careless Words Come from? Today, we're looking at What Do Careless Words Do? Next month (the last Friday of the month) we will also look at: How Do I Avoid Careless Words?

I hope you'll join us for "Our Words Matter" because they do!

I’ve already touched a little on how wounding, careless words can be, but I think it’s important to really examine the deep hurt and damage they can cause. When we speak careless words we are often blissfully unaware of the havoc they create. But taking the time to consider the end result and consequences of our words can serve as a cautionary and preventive measure.

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Journey to the Cross: Week Four

2/23/2021

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This Week's Scripture:
John 17, Luke 22:39-46

Join us as we Journey to the Cross, a nine-week study designed to prepare our hearts for Easter.

This study comes to us from The Daily Grace Company. Originally designed to be an eight-day study, we’re going to stretch it out over nine weeks and meditate on Scripture as we enter the season of Easter. I hope you’ll join us!

Last week we looked at how we can be Sifted Like Wheat. This week we will look at The High Priestly Prayer. In the coming weeks, we'll study topics like Failure That Leads to Victory, Good Friday, Sunday is Coming! He is Risen, and finally Follow Me.

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A Lesson from King Jehoshaphat

2/19/2021

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Have you ever been reading in one of the books of Kings or Chronicles and wondered what in the world was going on? Maybe like me, you get lost, at times, in the kings of the divided kingdoms and know that you need to spend more time setting all that straight in your mind.

But every so often, I find that even after being saved for more than thirty years and reading through the Bible several times, that same chapter, verse, or principle just jumps off the page and grabs me like never before! This, my friend, is the wonderful nature of the Living Word we have in our possession today.

Paul said it this way in Romans 11:33: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” It is like digging for treasure every time we open God’s Word. Let’s look at one of these treasure passages I found recently in 2 Chronicles 20.

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Journey to the Cross: Week Three

2/16/2021

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This Week's Scripture:
Luke 22:1-38

Join us as we Journey to the Cross, a nine-week study designed to prepare our hearts for Easter.

This study comes to us from The Daily Grace Company. Originally designed to be an eight-day study, we’re going to stretch it out over nine weeks and meditate on Scripture as we enter the season of Easter. I hope you’ll join us!

Last week we looked at what it means to Overcome. This week we will look at how we can be Sifted Like Wheat. In the coming weeks, we'll study topics like The High Priestly Prayer, Failure That Leads to Victory, Good Friday, Sunday is Coming! He is Risen, and finally Follow Me.

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5 Questions to Ask About Your Prayer Life

2/12/2021

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5 Questions to Ask About Your Prayer Life

Prayer. That one word represents so many things to me: peace, beauty, communion, praise, duty, failure, distraction, forgetfulness, absence, frustration.

What do you think of when you think of prayer?

Are you so busy during your day you often forget to pray?
Are you so plagued by guilt over sin or lack of prayer you don’t want to pray?
Are you so out of practice in prayer that you don’t know how to pray?
Are you so in love with your God that you pray continually throughout your day?
Are you so ritualistic in your prayer times that you don’t remember what you prayed?

Prayer is one of the most precious aspects of the Christian life.

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Journey to the Cross: Week Two

2/9/2021

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This Week's Scripture:
John 16:16-33

Join us as we Journey to the Cross, a nine-week study designed to prepare our hearts for Easter.

This study comes to us from The Daily Grace Company. Originally designed to be an eight-day study, we’re going to stretch it out over nine weeks and meditate on Scripture as we enter the season of Easter. I hope you’ll join us!

Last week we looked at Symptoms of Spiritual Blindness. This week we will look at what it means to Overcome. In the coming weeks, we'll study topics like Sifted Like Wheat, The High Priestly Prayer, Failure That Leads to Victory, Good Friday, Sunday is Coming! He is Risen, and finally Follow Me.

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Bridging the Gap Between What We Know and Feel

2/5/2021

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Bridging the Gap Between What We Know and Feel?

2020 may have left you thinking, "Well, I know what I know about God, but I just don't feel it." It was a rough year for many of us, and for a lot of different reasons.

I have a friend who, while the rest of us were worried we might contract COVID, wondered if she'd survive her cancer diagnosis and treatments. I know multiple elderly people who were homebound during the prolonged lockdowns. Some of them so undone with the loneliness that they gave up the fight altogether. I've seen friends who have suffered great financial setbacks due to the pandemic. I'm sure you have as well. Maybe you're one of those people.

My friend, Patricia Holbrook, asks: "How can we navigate life’s trials and never lose sight of God’s faithfulness and goodness?"

That's an excellent question!

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