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Well, Apparently, Healing Has Layers.
Calamity, Meet Jane | Open Your Bible With Me Have you ever forgiven somebody and then found yourself upset about something they did years ago? Not because you’ve been sitting around keeping score. Not because you’ve been rehearsing an argument in your head for the next family gathering. But because you’re just minding your own…
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Consistency Is Not My Spiritual Gift
Part One: What the Bible Is Teaching Me About Discipline I’ve been keeping track of areas in my life where I struggle, especially with self-control and motivation. And after seeing the same pattern show up approximately four hundred and twelve times, I finally had to admit something: I reckon we have a discipline problem. I…
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The Quietest Sin: Gluttony
You can go to church on Sunday and hear about drunkenness, sexual immorality, foul language, greed, addiction—all kinds of sin. But there’s one I don’t hear talked about nearly as much. Gluttony. And babycakes, I wish I were writing this from the other side of it. I’m not. I’m writing from smack-dab in the middle…
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Open Your Bible with Me to the Book of Haggai
Haggai was a prophet, and Haggai went to the people of his generation and was basically like: “Hey—why is your house all done up while the temple of God is in shambles?” See, the people had returned from exile. They were rebuilding their lives, rebuilding their homes, getting everything back together—but the temple of God…
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I had already told god how to fix it
There was a season when I had been praying about a situation and some relationships in my life. Eventually, circumstances changed. The situation was removed, and in my mind, I thought: Thank You, Lord. That’s handled. Except sometime later, the very thing I thought God had removed looked like it was coming right back. Babycakes,…
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Open your bible with me to Deuteronomy 31:1-8
He Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You What Deuteronomy 31:6 meant then—and what I’m learning from it now. “Be strong and courageous… for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” — Deuteronomy 31:6 I’ve heard this verse before. It’s comforting. It looks pretty written in cursive.…
