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He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32 For several weeks now in my community group at church this verse has been brought up, and it dawned on me this morning that for this…
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This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 God does not do things without a purpose. He has not set everything into motion and now sits by, watching things develop without the ability or interest to intervene. He has made everything that is, and…
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Today marks five years I’ve been married to the love of my life, Verena. Looking back, there have been quite a few notable experiences — graduations, five moves, jobs, buying a home, the birth of James, etc. — and I feel like God has used all of them, by his grace, to continue making me…
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“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing?…
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God, in his grace, allows his redeemed to experience the ways that he loves them through varying life experiences. Ultimately, we learn of all of this love, infallibly, through the words of Scripture which declare the sacrifice of the very Word of life, Jesus Christ, for his enemies making them his beloved. However, in experiential…
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This is the famous introduction to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount recorded in the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5-7. In these 10 verses Jesus quickly flips everything that we think to be correct on its head, and beautifully offends and astonishes all readers/hearers. The Beatitudes – much like the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians…
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“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 So… Because of man’s enslavement to sin, there must be intervention from another. So if… Not all will be set free from their sinful bondage by God Almighty who works all things according to the counsel of his will for his…
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“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And…
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Like everything else, Christian discipleship is for him (God), through him, and to him (Romans 11:36). But Star Wars may be having a draining, and unfortunately prideful, effect on how Christians go about making disciples. What’s the Context? The Star Wars films are an iconic story of good overcoming evil, and though there are many…
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I don’t expect anything that I write here to be groundbreaking, but I just expect that this will give me the freedom to share my thoughts and experiences as I continue on my pilgrimage to eternity. I plan to share the ups and the downs of life, and by God’s grace, how living a life…
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The Drawing Board 