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When You Feel Like God Doesn’t Understand

Our feelings are very human and part of what makes us frail. To limit our frailty, we find ways to harden or suppress or otherwise numb our emotions. We may ignore our hearts, ignore other people’s feelings, use distraction like substances or video games or other addictions, or simply avoid ...

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Our Hope: How Should We Measure Beauty?

‘Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.’ Proverbs 31:30 (NIV) Beauty is everywhere around us; in nature, in sound, in experiences, and in people.  We should be able to identify and enjoy the very essence of beauty, in all ...

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Our Hope: God’s Hand Can Reach Down

‘If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.’  Psalm 139:9 (NIV) There is a song I love that speaks to God’s ‘always’ presence, to His ...

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I Spoke to the Storm

Matthew 8:27” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he gets up and rebukes the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.” Peering through the pages of the New Testament Jesus, the master teacher gives his disciples, and future generations of disciples, a ...

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