Tag: trust
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Ruth- Audacious Faith to GO
As a global worker living overseas, a foreigner making my home in a foreign land, I’m grateful for the story of Ruth. She understood the challenges of having a cross-cultural family, of uprooting and re-planting, of learning how to find her identity not in a place, but in God. Ruth grew up in Moab, a…
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“Leaning into the Unknown”
by Davida Freeze “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.” -Jesus, John 16:12 NLT If you are like me, you don’t naturally enjoy ambiguity or the lack of clarity. I don’t know many adults who do! But having the opportunity to live outside of our western…
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The Men of Advent: Wise Men (and Women) Still Worship
Matthew 2:7,9-12 (NLT) “7 Then Herod called for a private meeting with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first appeared. … 9 After this interview, the wise men went their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of…
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Fashioned for Motherhood: Letting Go and Dealing with Disappointment
After only three months of intense mothering, Jochebed built a basket and set her baby adrift.
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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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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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Kingdom Work that Produces Fruit
“55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? 56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be…
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