Love One Another

I recieved an encouraging e-mail this morning from a friend (love you, Bekah dear). We had been talking about abiding in Christ two weeks ago at church. We both have been finding ourselves seeking to be abiding in Christ, but struggling to know what exactly it means: how do we live out this “abiding in Christ” in day-to-day living?
My friend [...]

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The Sad Saga of an “Un-cute” Little Girl

I visited the home of a friend of a friend. She had three young children of her own, one on the way, and was also baby-sitting two other young children. One of which was a 6-month-old baby girl.

When I walked in the house, she was sitting in a little seat on the counter, screaming [...]

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Beyond comprehension

I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
-Psalm 52:8

God notices the most trivial act,
accepts the poorest, most threadbare little service,
listens to the coldest, feeblest petition,
and gathers up with parental fondness all our fragmentary desires and attempts at good works.
Oh, if we could only begin to conceive how He loves us,
what different creatures [...]

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Love Song for my Savior

In open fields of wild flowers, she breathes the air and flies away
She thanks her Jesus for the daisies and the roses in no simple language
Someday she’ll understand the meaning of it all
He’s more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close a heartbeat or a song on her lips
Someday she’ll trust Him [...]

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The Greatest Mystery

“I am a dreadful creature! I am angry with myself, angry with everybody, and angry with God. I can’t be good two minutes at a time. I do every thing I do not want to do , and do nothing I try and pray to do. Everygody plagues and tempts me. And God does not [...]

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