Tag: #christ
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The Most Beautiful Thing I Ever Read: His Name Is Obadiah

Have you ever opened a newspaper looking for one particular story, only to find yourself captivated by another tucked somewhere between the pages? Not the headline splashed across the front page, but the story you almost overlooked. The one that makes you forget what you came to read in the first place. Perhaps a more…
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Homeless, Existing & Living on the Street

Consider having to live on the street. Can you even imagine the concrete being your pillow and the wind your blanket? I can. I know all too well. The lowest point might be having to defecate outside and use the bushes for what Charmin toilet paper was purposed for. Or maybe being a woman experiencing…
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Holy Ground: Public Repentance
It’s like someone who cannot swim. God pushed me into the deep. “I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.” (Psalm 118:13, ESV). He pushed me so that I was falling into the deep end of the pool. I guess this type of repentance and pruning is me learning how…
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The Necessary Thorn:What Sin Produces Within Us
In Romans 7:8, Apostle Paul declares: “But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead” (Rom. 7:8, ESV). This is a heavy verse. Romans 7 carries tremendous weight as Paul describes unchecked sin, internal conflict, distorted desire, and the war between…

