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  • Love the Mess of Families

    I can remember it so clearly.  It was July – the month of sweet, blazing days and moist, firefly-accompanied nights. The heart of summer. And yet it was also the summer two hearts broke at the hands of a crushing heat that had been building…

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  • Love

    The love of God feels like a hot button topic. It’s tricky because we use this word a lot. Unlike holiness, we talk about love all the time. We love TV shows, food, people, movies, clothes, restaurants, and ice cream. And we talk about God’s love frequently too, to…

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  • The Proud and the Exalted

    I have to admit something: there is a not-so-small part of me that likes being proud.  I know I like to be right. I see it sometimes as a form of confidence. I think I know better than others and truly believe I do. There’s no hidden shame in me…

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  • Holiness

    For a word we use a lot it seems we don’t know much about it.  “Holy” is an attribute we know God has, but often don’t fully comprehend. We see it throughout scripture. His name is so holy we are not to use it casually (Exodus 20:7). In…

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  • Trust the God Who Says It’s Good

    One of the more humbling experiences in life is becoming frustrated at a person or situation and immediately realizing you are without all the facts of the situation… and it makes you look very very bad. You yell and maybe even honk at the car in front of you…

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  • Goodness

    “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” (A.W. Tozer). You’ve probably heard this quote before. Maybe you’re like me and have heard this quote almost every time you open a book or online article. Or maybe this is your first time hearing it.

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