When you look ahead, whether it’s to a new year, decade or a new day, are you anxious? Or are you hopeful? Our feelings come and go based on what we believe the future may hold. We are influenced by our current situation as well as our past experiences. So let’s hold on to what…
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The Two spies
No, that’s not a typo. I know Moses sent twelve spies to check out this new Promised Land. But only two came back with a good report. Think about that. God rescued them from Egypt – an enslaved peasant population delivered from a mighty army. He provided for them through the desert and led them…
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Add to your Faith
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective…
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Moving Mountains
With even the smallest grain of faith rightly placed, Jesus said we could move mountains. Did He mean that literally? If not, what was He talking about? Overcoming huge obstacles This is the most obvious and maybe the most common understanding. In fact, we still use this idiom today. The picture of doing something so…
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