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“Do you know what you really need?” I want to know God. I mean I really do want to know him. It’s a core value for me. It’s not that I don’t want to do things for him – that too. But I figure that I can’t show him any better than I can know …
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Anne Lamott “Trust for a miracle with all your heart” is not exactly what Solomon wrote. He did write, however, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3). Trusting in him helps me live peacefully …
We can know some of the principles on which God operates and thus can trust him despite appearances, but we are simply not in a position to know most of the relevant facts that would explain the specifics of his interaction in any given instance. Gregory Boyd I prayed and prayed for my marriage to …
“As for me, God forbid that I should boast in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14 Today is the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. I overheard a guy this morning in the coffee shop tell someone else that Christians wearing crosses is like Jackie Onassis wearing a pin with a …
If anyone obeys his Word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:5 If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John …
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