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Move Toward The person You’d Rather Avoid
Scripture: “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.” — Luke 6:32–35
We all have ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – Recalculating, Not Shaming!
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Joel 2:12 — "Return to me with all your heart, declares the Lord."
When I first began ministry in this area 20+ years ago, GPS in our cars and on our phones was not a thing.
So, my senior pastor became my GPS.
We ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – The Love that Creates Love
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1 John 4:19 — "We love because God first loved us."
Here's what I've noticed about hesed: it's contagious.
When you're really loved — I mean held in fierce-tender-loyal-never-giving-up love — it changes how you love everyone ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – The Fight in Love
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Psalm 23:4 — "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."
One day, in third grade, Layne came home from school in tears. A group of girls had been systematically ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – When Loyalty Doesn’t Make Sense!
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Hosea 3:1 — "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites."
Sometimes God asks prophets to do weird things. Ezekiel had to lie on his side ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – It Doesn’t Fit in a Teacup!
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Psalm 136:1 — "Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good. God's hesed endures forever."
Soul Creations had a pop-up in Davidson a few weeks ago, and we were going to introduce our new “Teacup Bouquets.” As soon as Dawn got the ...
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James 1:19 — "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."
Years ago I was rushing through the kitchen, mentally rehearsing Sunday’s message while grabbing Diet Mtn. Dew, when my daughter appeared ...
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Scripture Proverbs 18:21 — "The tongue has the power of life and death."
Post-divorce, LOTS of people had LOTS of opinions about my entering the dating world.
One gentleman was obsessed (using that word correctly, here) with the question, ...
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Have you ever tried to fall asleep in a hotel room or a different house, and every creak or hum keeps you awake? Enter the sound machine. Over 10 million Americans use them nightly. The science is simple: your brain can’t rest when it’s on ...
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Confession: I didn’t have some magical moment falling in love with Hebrew. My first class was online, and it was… awful. The kind of awful that makes you shut the laptop and say, “Nope, not for me.” I dropped out.
For a while I carried that ...
LET THEM: The Twinges of Jealousy
So, we’ve all been there.
Jealous.
It drives division. It robs us of our spiritual wholeness. If we aren’t careful it will inhibit us from being who we are called to be.
It isn’t a pretty emotion. In fact, one that scripture addresses ...
LET THEM: the Grandparent Olympics
As my daughter and son-in-law had their child, I had lots of conversations with others regarding what it means to be a grandparent.
I heard about how it’s the “best thing ever,” how it changes everything, how you can love more deeply than ...
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