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The Benefits of Being in God’s Will

How do we know we are God’s children even when we are far from home? Nothing can take us from God’s hand (John 10:28). Our children are still our children, wherever they live.

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The Only “Place” That Matters

Are you in the will of God today? Are you faithful to serve God where you find yourself? Are you close to God spiritually, wherever you are located physically?

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Good is Now Close at Hand

Perhaps our so-called realism is not so realistic after all. Maybe immersing ourselves in calculating, hard-headed, practical reality simply encourages mediocrity. What we need is more dreams, more visions of the way things ought to be, especially when it is God who promises to be with us on the quest.

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Lifting Each Other Up

So together we hope, we trust, we pray and act for what we do not yet see, because within what is uncertain is what is possible.

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A Secret of Doctor Luke

The Fulfillment of Faith first Requires an Uncertain Step.

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Hearts Open Wide

As you engage people, events and other opportunities, remember that whatever your role, you are doing something important: participating in the mission of God in your world. Do so with your heart pointing outward, not inward. Be vulnerable. Trust in God.

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Dwelling and Being with God

Each one of us is called to come and dwell in God's loving presence. May we answer that call by making time and space in our lives.

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Boasting in Hope

There is certainly enough pain in the world to go around. But when we love one another, granting each other dignity and worth, then our boasting in our suffering will compel us forward.

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Who am I?

When we live by faith, even a cloudy, problem filled day is filled for hope for a better tomorrow, and that hope give us new life!

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The Hope for America

The 33rd Psalm concludes with this prayer: “May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you” (v. 22). Would you make these words your intercession for America and for our world today?

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The God Who Provides

My friends, we never know the time table. When God meets our needs, He does this out of compassion and we learn a lesson on trust. We offer our meager offering and he multiples it and when we look back, we can see God’s hands guiding us. We will need to trust, and we will see answered prayer, the meeting of our needs, and we’ll experience the profound blessing that all that we have is a gift from God.

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The Persistence of God

When we struggle to see, when the darkness appears to be winning, the greatest weapon at our disposal is prayer, for it is in prayer that we join the work of God in the world.

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The God Who Redeems

Do you know how much God loves you, how far God would go to bless you, to redeem you and restore your soul. God has a hope for you and there is no qualification, other than to receive that love and mercy that God has for us.

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God’s Call

The future of the church is dependent on God’s calling and our response, pursuing our calling together. As individuals, as family, as congregation, it is not just who we are, but what is God calling us to do. How is God calling you to go forward?

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Unbound

More people are open to spirituality than in a generation, right now. Christians have greater opportunity for ministry and witness than we have seen in 50 years. We are assured of God’s love, and given access to his power, by his Spirit alive in our hearts. Are you available to him today?

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God as Mother

On this Mother’s Day, know that God the Father loves you as a mother. God the Son prays for you as a mother. God the Spirit indwells and guides you as a mother. Turn to him for help and hope, whether you’re a mother or not. Wherever you most need a perfect, omniscient, omnipotent mother in your life today. And know that what you cannot do for your children, he can.

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The God Who Owns Everything

The God who created all things calls us to trust Him in life and to be good stewards and demonstrate affectional care for our planet as he cares for us.

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God’s Earth: Our Responsibility

We’ve been given a biblical mandate to care for God’s Earth with affection, with benevolence, with care, it is God’s creation, he loves it, it was created for him. That means taking responsible for our consumption, our greed, our habits.

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Nature vs. Creation

This uncommon home of ours is something that we’re a part of, not something we’re separate form. We are participants in it, we live our lives in it, we draw our lives from it. We have a part to play in its health and wellbeing, as it does in ours. It is God’s good and beautiful gift to us. Thanks be to God.

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God’s Earth: Our Common Home

God is Creator and He is King and worthy of our awe and adoration. When last were you in awe of our Creator and King?

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