Tag: Spiritual Growth
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An Introduction to Embracing Joy
I wondered about the title of this eight-week study written by a prophet who had a conversation with God. Turns out, Habakkuk means embrace. According to Webster’s Dictionary, embrace means “hug, encircle, welcome, grip, acceptance.” Habakkuk’s book is only three chapters but they pack a powerful picture of spiritual transformation. You see Habakkuk lived in…
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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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God With Us
The next Bible study offering at Unraveled Love. Gather with us as we explore God With Us in every season of life through the people whose lives were first impacted by the birth of Jesus: Emmanuel (which means “God with us”). For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and…
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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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Prayer: Moving from Here to There
All the doubt questions led us to the revelation that God is not as concerned about our doubt as He is concerned about what we do with it. Doubt has a way of exposing our unbelief, yet we serve a compassionate God who is always calling us deeper in faith and in prayer.
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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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Cultivating Passionate Prayer
Prayer runs much deeper than making requests. It includes pouring out our heart to God, fessing up when we missed the mark, and gratitude. Always… always… gratitude.
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Prayer in Sacred Space
We’ve come to the end of A Summer of Sacred Space, working our way through 28 of the 70 devotions in the book titled Sacred Space: A Little Book of Encouragement. The three chapters we looked at this week created an apt wrap-up for our time together. Chapter 11: Can I Trust God to Hear…
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