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Your Religion Is What You Do With Your Solitude | Cru Press Green
“Usually I’m really good at skimming over great spiritual truths. But for some reason when I read that sentence from Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods, it stopped me in my tracks…” Read… Your Religion Is What You Do With Your Solitude | Cru Press Green.
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Deep-Spirited Friendships
“Love each other, be deep-spirited friends” (Philippians 2:1, MSG). I have been incredibly blessed by deep-Spirited friends who don’t jump to offer advice, but instead, we employ the power of appropriate questions, extend grace, and openly share our personal journeys of following Jesus, including our triumphs and struggles. It’s taken a bit to get here…
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You Can Never Get Enough?
Oh how I know this… Our hearts always long for more. May our longings lead us continually in our loving Creator and Saviour’s direction so that we will indeed arrive into that perfect place of rest, community, completeness…: our eternal home! Walking and talking and learning and growing with Him here and now is a…
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Tired and Worn?
A friend reminded me of this song today. If you are worn, this too may be your song…
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Already Too Full?
Our cups may be empty at times and at others, they may be too full to be filled with what we really need. This is why I have adopted the prayer, “Empty me of me, fill me with you, Holy Spirit.” Alan Fadling is a blogger I follow regularly and who wonderfully refers to this…
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Disappointment Restores and Resurrects
“We should praise God for disappointment because it drives us to our knees. Disappointment is like a dream defibrillation. If we respond the right way, we can restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.” – Mark Batterson
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God’s Love Letter to You! | Soul Shepherding
What if God were to write a letter to you? It’d be a love letter! Have you read the Bible as being God’s love letter to you? That’s what it is! I know you don’t deserve it — neither do I. That’s the point. God’s love is unconditional. Bill Gaultiere wrote this love letter to…
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Need Prayer? | Mary DeMuth
Have you ever felt helpless? That all you can do is holler a few words to the heavens and ask for simple help? I’ve been in that place more times than I can count. It’s a good place. A hard place. A needy place. Where we realize that we can’t do everything. Usually during those…
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The Necessity of Brokenness | Write Where It Hurts
If we have the eyes to see, we will come to know and understand that brokenness purifies our vision and chisels away all that keeps us from fully knowing the heart of God. If you and I want to recover from the losses of life, we must catch a vision for the greater role that…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 