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Living in Expectation
Fashioned by God: Living in Expectation I’ll never forget that Sunday morning message I heard almost fifteen years ago. Our pastor delivered a sermon on the spiritual concept of expectation. In my opinion, the text he read is one of the most poignant passages that demonstrates a life of expectation illustrated in the bible. It…
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Fashioned to Glorify God
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. Psalm 86:12 Do you remember testimony services? I remember there used to be time set aside in every service, and sometimes whole evenings, dedicated to people coming one after another up to a microphone to…
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Fashioned with a Purpose
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:10 What do you want to be when you grow up? This is the question that we ask children throughout their school-going lives. Most children change their answers…
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Fashioned with Imagination
(27)So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (31)Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! Genesis 1:27 & 31 Looking around at creation, both nature and people, it cannot be doubted…
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Fashioned with Integrity
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous-how well I know it! Psalm 139:14 Our theme this year for STXWM is Fashioned. When I first heard it, my honest thought was that I wanted to do some study about it. This is not a word I use very much, so I…
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Anna: Worshipful Waiting
There’s a woman named Anna who spent her entire adult life waiting. She is our last lady of Christmas and the kind of woman we’d all like to be one day. Anna’s brief account has a lot to teach us about receiving Christ rightly.
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Mary’s Mother: Holding on and Letting Go
“Mommy, I hold you?” I can still remember my 2-year-old daughter saying that phrase to me as she reached for me, wanting to be wrapped in my arms. I felt like the days of raising little kids would never end. My back ached from carrying them, my eyelids drooped from lack of sleep, my hands…
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Mary: Favored, Trusted and Faithful
This past year I’ve spent a lot of time with Mary. My favorite account of the birth of Jesus is in Luke chapters 1 & 2. It strikes me that even though this is the most detailed account as far as Mary is concerned, it’s still pretty short. Two chapters to encompass all that she…
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Elizabeth: Spirit-led and Immovable
“40 … (Mary) entered the house and greeted Elizabeth. 41 At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 Elizabeth gave a glad cry and exclaimed to Mary, ‘God has blessed you above all women, and your child is blessed. 43 Why am I…
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The Great Commission- Going for Missions
“Therefore, GO and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” -Matthew…
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