Category: Fashioned
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Fashioned for Dependence: Confessing Our Need
“If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.” -Exodus 33:15 We had recently returned to the states after two years overseas that had challenged and depleted me. I was standing at the campground altar in Kerrville, Texas at the end of the Leading Ladies retreat in 2018. I was weary.…
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Fashioned for Dependence: Losing Myself
Home. Security. Familiarity. Proximity to family and friends. Comfort. Those things I knew I would lose when we made the decision to move overseas. One thing I didn’t expect to lose? My identity. It’s my own fault. Growing up in our productivity-driven western culture, for most of my life my identity had been seamlessly woven into what I…
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Living The Adventure
Fashioned by God: Living The Adventure “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 NLT) This has been an incredible month. We started our Fashioned by God theme by talking about how we can consistently…
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Living By Faith
Fashioned by God: Living By Faith “16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will…
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Living Without Fear
Fashioned by God: Living Without Fear “22 Then, turning to his disciples, Jesus said, ‘That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or enough clothes to wear. 23 For life is more than food, and your body more than clothing. 24 Look at the ravens.…
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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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