Tag: devotional
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Sitting with the Greatness of God
Week One Sometimes it is good for the soul to simply sit in the presence of our God. To praise Him. To lift our eyes to HIs goodness. To remember that He is God and we are not. So for the next few Mondays, will you join me? Let’s pause together, Let’s quiet the noise,…
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Reaching for What Matters
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:6, NIV). My spiritual gifts tend toward small and simple.Simple words of encouragement.Small acts of service. But this world doesn’t often celebrate small and simple, and sometimes it’s tempting to reach for other people’s gifts instead. Maybe you’ve thought…
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Jesus Could Have Thrown the Stone
“And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ‘Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her’” (John 8:7). The crowd that sought to condemn could only walk away. But there stood one person in the crowd who could have thrown…
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The Reason We Run
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2). This week my gifts felt more like burdens I needed to squeeze into a hectic life and less like opportunities to walk next to God. It made my feet feel heavy and…
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Guide My Mind; Guide My Hands
“You shall bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes” (Deuteronomy 6:8). Our hands symbolize our actions, all we do. Our forehead or “between [our] eyes” represents our minds, all we think. And God’s Word is to be our guide for both. So when…
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Every Mundane Act, Every Messy Moment
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). There was nothing remarkable about walking down…
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It’s Time to Take Our Gifts Off the Shelf.
“From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building itself up in love by the proper working of each individual part” (Ephesians 4:16). Years ago my husband gave me a gift— a set of two tea mugs, complete with little tea baskets for steeping the…
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Small, Simple … Sweet.
“And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so” (Genesis 1:11, emphasis added). Our God is a God of both order and creativity. Right from the beginning, He created plants for…
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A New Year’s Resolution
2026 “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). With a new year, our thoughts turn to new beginnings. We might: But as we contemplate these things, let us…
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What Are You Called to Leave Behind?
“While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw…