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Love’s Journey to the Cross: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Love’s Journey to the Cross – Lent Reflections Our mouths, James 3:9-10 We continue to countdown the days of Lent towards Easter, as we focus on dying to our selves, and living free in Christ, as we focus on love’s journey to the cross, and on how God loves us and calls us to love…
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Love’s Journey to the Cross: First day in Lent
Love’s Journey to the Cross – Lent Reflections (Art by Moriah Misner) Easter is the most important event in our world history, and yet it can sneak up on us. We often spend so much time focusing on Christmas, that we forget Part 2, …the dying to self-part and receiving new life in Christ. Christmas…
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What is Lent? (Journey to the Cross)
How will you journey this Lenten season? First the background… The 6 weeks before Easter is called the “Lenten Season”. It’s a time to focus on Christ’s sacrifice of death for our life. Because Jesus rose from the dead, we too can rise and enjoy heaven forever when we put our trust in Him. LENT…
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Have An Epiphany (A Light Bulb Moment)
You and I can do Christmas and completely miss the wonder and epiphany of it all! Today is the Day of Epiphany (January 6). What’s an epiphany? • a moment of sudden revelation or insight. (A light bulb moment!) • an appearance of a divine or supernatural being. We just celebrated Christmas, now it’s a…
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Christmas Prayer
Merry Christmas Prayer How did God show his love for us? He sent his one and only Son into the world. He sent him so we could receive life through him. 1 John 4:9 NIRV Treasuring this truth today deeply as we got a phone call yesterday that you don’t ever want to get. We…
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You Let Me Rest
I’ve been meditating on this old familiar Psalm quite a bit lately… May you too turn it into a prayer for yourself… “You let me rest in fields of green grass. You lead me to streams of peaceful water, and you refresh my life. You are true to your name, and you lead me along…
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40 Years
Today I celebrate 40 years and reflect… This comes to my mind: a medley of two songs that my heart adopts to sing today…
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We All Need Counseling
We all need a helper, a teacher, a mentor, a counselor. I’m grateful that EVERY ONE of us has been invited to such a person. …My prayer: “Dear Jesus, thank you that because of you, everyone of us can have a right relationship with our Creator. Thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit…
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3 Ways to Pray the Ordinary
“Many of us today live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then can make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We have become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the contradiction in it. We overcome…
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My Prayer for My Beloved Canada on Her Birthday!
God, I pray for my country of Canada on her birthday today! Thank you for the freedom we enjoy. May we be wise stewards of it, careful to show your love and light to those around us. Protect our leaders, policemen, firemen, doctors and nurses, peacekeepers, teachers, moms, dads, pastors, volunteers… all those given responsibility…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 