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Living With Hopeful Expectation Expands The Heart … To Engage And Experience The Fullness Of God
Living with hopeful expectation is what allows us to engage and experience the fulness of life as God intends it to be. The apostle Paul actually prays for this to…
Frustration Must Never Drive Or Dominate … When That Happens, We Will Falter And Fail
Keeping life centered, priorities balanced and emotions under control is a herculean task that tests our inner strength and at times leaves us feeling hopeless. It is especially exhausting when…
Be Alert And Attentive … And Always In Agreement With The Plans And Purposes Of God
Maintaining a proper posture with the Father is an ardent task and many things will stage up against us when we set our hearts and minds in this direction. Difficulties,…
Creating Meaningful Connections … And Staging Others Up For Christ-inspired Change
It has become crystal clear to me that the good that we could be doing is often lost to us because we hesitate to put it in play … and…
Peace In The Pause … Is Truly Worth It All!
Nothing is quite as powerful as knowing deep peace in those moments when it seems as if God has put our life on pause. Of course, we must hasten to…
Hearing God Clearly And Living With Greater Confidence
My focus truth for the year is a declarative reality that I believe will become increasingly desired and needed as we walk through 2021. The specific word that I am…
The Coming Of Christ Gave Birth To Joy … A Miraculous Joy That Is Always Within Our Reach
I love Advent and the opportunity that it provides for us to prepare our hearts well so that we can be entirely available to receive all that God has planned…
The Advent Promise Of Peace Has Been Declared To Us, Defined For Us … And Is To Be Demonstrated By Us
The only way to redeem the deep value of the Advent is to remember its purpose. Advent allows us to celebrate the prophesied arrival of Christ and it is a…
The Season Of Advent Is A Time To Nurture Our Sense Of Longing For Christ … So Let’s Put Away Lesser Things For More Of Him
Christmas is my favorite time of year … and I know that I am not alone. As I am a big Christmas fan, I talk about it all the time,…
Sincere, Sacrificial Love In Action … Driven By Authenticity
Perhaps the greatest need in our world today is something that comes at a great cost to us! There is a profound sense of divisiveness, fragmentation, and rancor. We have…