When Waiting is Weighty
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This isn’t casual waiting. This is deep, soul-level endurance, and it call to us to wait well by embracing the wait rather than pushing it away, rushing it, or merely distracting ourselves from it.
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Great Love Leads to Great Delight
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When we continually feed our own desires and focus only on our own interests, loving others, let alone loving them well, can seem burdensome and inconvenient, and the sheer effort it takes to love that way quickly convinces us it’s just too much work and not enough benefit for us.
Read MoreAll In & All for Him
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As we watch the world around us wake up and burst forth, let’s allow the Holy Spirit to continue the new work He started in us.
Let’s awaken to this newness of life and the beauty it holds, while also staying aware of the signs of the times and the reality that our earthly life is so incredibly short in light of eternity.
From Hosannas to Hallelujahs: The In Between can Lead to a Greater Thing
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Those who cried of “Hosanna,” which literally means “save us,” on Palm Sunday, shouted “Crucify Him” days later. It’s a heaviness too hard to explain, and yet it leads to a holiness that will forever remain. He sealed the deal with an empty tomb at the end of a heavy, Holy Week.
Read MoreSearch the Scriptures, but Seek the Savior
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Many today pick and choose what they want to believe. They only take from the Word what makes them feel good or adds to their worth, but in order to live out what God’s Word in all about, we must believe it all — the whole council of scripture.
Read MoreBe Wheat in a World of Weeds
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We can try to water it down or butter it up, but we can’t have Jesus without the Gospel, and we can’t have the Gospel without Jesus.
Read MoreStart from Rest to Finish Best
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God works before He rests, while we must first enter into God’s rest (sit), and then and only then can we can work (expend energy by walking out our faith and standing firmly on it).
Read MoreMoved by God to Become an Immovable Mom
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Commit your work in motherhood to Him today. Call on His power alone to move you to immovability in Him. Trust Him for your strength and steadfastness and you stand firm in your faith. Not sure where to start? Start by simply joining me in this prayer…
Read MoreDeep Calls to Deep
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If the deception keeps getting deeper and deeper (and it does), then we must go deeper and deeper into the truth of God’s Word. It is the only way we will stay grounded, rooted, and established. When we abide in Him, we cannot hide from Him by giving into sin.
Read MoreWhen Less Leads to More: The True Intent of the Season of Lent
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If you, like me, long for more of Him — a “more” that you’ve never known before, might I encourage you to simply seek Him throughout this season of Lent.
Read MoreStop the scroll if it’s not feeding your soul.
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If scrolling has you stressed or depressed, I’d love to offer you two simple words, followed by two more that lead to far more...
Just stop. Then start.
Stop scrolling. Start seeking.
Stop aimlessly and mindlessly consuming content that leaves you discontent, and start reading and feeding on the very Word of God. It never runs dry and will always satisfy.
Read MorePraying for your People (When seeking Him leads to Praying for Them)
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We are to “stand on His promises“ because they provide the surest, safest, steadiest foundation to this life we are living. No amount of education, motivation, determination, or ambition can replace Godly wisdom.
Read MoreOn Matters that Matter
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to miss the things that matter because I’m too focused on the things that don’t.
Read MoreThe Staying Power of Seeking Him
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God’s everlasting love and never changing truth is found only in Christ. When we seek Him, we will find Him, and when we find Him and give our lives to Him, He keeps us.
Read MoreA Priority that will Literally Change Your Life {Transformation > Demonstration}
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His Word is Holy as well, and His Son is that Word made flesh, the very embodiment of His holiness, so why would we not want to read, receive, and release it so that it may do the work it was intended to do intimately in our own hearts and intentionally beyond what our finite minds can even fathom?
Read MoreEmbracing a slower pace for the longer race…
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Just as long distance runners have to learn to pace themselves in order to maintain the endurance needed for the entirety of the race ahead, we need to learn how to slow down, look around, and ultimately, be found.
Read MoreMy One Word for 2026
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Ironically, my search for my one word for 2026 led me to the word in more ways than one. As I sought the Lord and His guidance, and as I asked Him for wisdom and direction in the seeking, He met me not only in His Word, but in the very word itself…
Read MoreThe Darkest Day Making Way for the Perfect Light
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By the light of a star, they longed to be guided to “thy perfect light” — a light that would pierce the darkness of this world, a light that would finally fill the dark void left by constantly seeking but never reaching.
Read MoreCreative Encouragement for Crunch Time
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Maybe your children are still under your roof, and a group text is not necessary to observe Advent. Maybe a couple weeks ago you started something for Advent with your family but haven’t been consistent with it. That’s ok. Just pick it back up today. Or start today. We’re still a week away from Christmas Day. Find a way to focus on The Way!
Read MoreHome for the Holidays
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No matter where you find yourself (physically) this holiday season, and regardless of where your heart is (emotionally) as Christmas approaches, you can come home and are always welcome home (spiritually).
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