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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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Embrace the Hope of Easter

Because of Easter, all that Jesus has ever done, he is still doing. If we will trust him, we can have Easter every day. Why do you need the miracle of Easter today?

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Crowds and Disciples

When Christianity is easy, it is hard. When Christianity is hard, it is easy.” Hear it again: crowds change nothing; disciples change the world. What will Palm Sunday cost you tomorrow?

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The Meaning and Practice of Worship

If you came to meet with the living God, the seeker, the father, the holy one, through his son Jesus Christ there is the possibility that you can taste the living water that will make a difference in the days just ahead of you as you walk from this place, days in which your thirst is not so deep, you reflect on him, sing his praise, listen to his word, yield your life freshly to him, you worship in sprit and truth.

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Better Than Before

Just bring your mess to the master, and he can take what’s wrong and make it right- he can take the old and make it better than before.

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Give Existence to God’s Insistence

Hear these words again now, because while they weren’t written to you, they were written for you: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Amen.

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Put on the New Self

The things we once loved, we now detest. The sin we once held onto, we now desire to put away forever. We “put off the old man with his deeds” (Colossians 3:9), and put on the “new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24).

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The Miracle of Christmas

The source of your personal worth is the fact that you are worth the birth and life of the Son of God. He loves you, He likes you, and wants to spend eternity with you.

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The One Word Prayer

The sounds of Christmas are ringing bells, joyful carols, and ho-ho-hoing Santas. But another softer sound can become a one-word prayer, an ushering in of inner calm and “peace on earth” for you this season.

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