Category: Carol
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Come As You Are: Week 1
Grief to Glory: WAIT for It! The study began this week by establishing the story in which we live. The world and realm the Creator created for us to inhabit and experience His love, Remember, you are welcome to join me at the shop for this weekly connection with God and others. Tuesdays at 9…
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The Beginning of a New Journey
As I’ve followed God over the last thirty years, writing has become part of my relationship with Him. Before Unraveled Love there were other blogs where I wrote.JeremiahsMenu.comCarolBWeaver.comA place for devotionals and an author page, respectively. With a heart and vision to write a devotional book based on the lessons God has been teaching me,…
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The Surrender of Cultivating Good Soil
“Place my yoke over your shoulders, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble. Then you will find rest for yourselves because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” –JesusMatthew 11:29-30 GW As we wrapped up our podcast series on spiritual growth, exploring our hearts as a field based on the…
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Repentance: It’s a Battle!
Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet.Ephesians 6:13 The Message It was on the calendar.Podcast at 9 am Thursday.The plan to…
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Repentance: Get Comfortable With Your Sinful Self
I said it in the podcast. “…get comfortable with these places of recurrent sins…” I wondered: “Is that true?”
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Faith Knows It is a Seed Born to Die
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” – JesusJohn 12:24 ESV Jesus spoke these words just days before He died and His body buried in the ground.Upside-down words to a world turned upside-down by…
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Faith Knows How to Love
The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome.1John 5:3 The Message Faith knows how to love.True love is loving God first and best. When we follow this first and greatest commandment — Love the Lord your God with all your soul and might and…
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Faith Knows a Life of JOY!
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!Philippians 4:4 NET A life of joy may feel unattainable. To rejoice ALWAYS seems like an unreasonable command in a life ruled by darkness. fear. the shame of sin. death. But Paul gives us a command straight from the Spirit of God: Rejoice in the Lord always.…
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Faith Knows How to Discern Idols in Its Own Heart
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”Exodus 20:3 God tells His people: You shall have NO other gods but ME! This is the first of the ten commandments He gave His people when He delivered them from slavery in Egypt. Laws intended to ensure the freedom He secured for them. The sinful practice of…
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Faith Knows Only God Makes Things Grow
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.1Corinthians 3:7 NIV Only God makes things grow.Yes. There is work to do on our end – planting, watering, tilling, weeding – but whatever growth comes forth is a gift from God. (Well, really the ability,…
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