Has God called you to do something that you are afraid of? Be honest. There’s that thing that stays on your heart, that ministry that really stirs your spirit. But. “I would, but…” The devil is good at putting a “but” at the end of our desires to serve in ministry. Not God. If God has put something in your…
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A couple years ago, I joined my friends in their backyard to view the heavens through their telescope. I put my eye to a lens and gazed at a star millions of miles away from me. I witnessed the glow of a fire that burns 140,000 times hotter than our sun. I viewed photons, or particles of light, that began…
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I’ll admit it. I’m a recovering perfectionist. I’m not proud of it, and I’ve worked hard to overcome it. I think most perfectionism develops out of a desire for approval. When a child can’t find acceptance among peers or approval from parents, she will often develop perfectionistic tendencies in an effort to feel complete or validated as a person. The…
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As I read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis this past weekend, I came across a sentence that stopped me dead in my tracks. This short book is an allegory about heaven and hell and the choices we make–that it matters how we live now. In this fantastical story the narrator encounters people who want to go upward to heaven…
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Some to Jesus I surrender, some to Him I freely give. I will sometimes love and trust Him, in His presence sometimes live. I surrender some. I surrender some. Some to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender some. I bet you never sang that one in church, but many of us truly live that way. We’re willing to give up…
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