The Strength and Courage You Need to Arise

apart from Him…we can do nothing. But through Him, there’s nothing we can’t do. 

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What You Can Trust to be True When the Fight Is Real & the Battle Is Hard

It’s a struggle sometimes to live in the reality of what I know is true – especially when I’m trying to move forward from where I am to where I believe God wants me to be. When I’m in the middle of a Wilderness, when I’m facing a foe, fighting a…

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Are You Willing to Do Whatever It Takes to Arise from Your Wilderness?

YOU CAN’T ARISE FROM YOUR WILDERNESS IF YOU’RE STILL CLINGING TO WHAT PUT YOU THERE.

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Jesus! I know Him!

Elf is one of my favorite Christmas movies. I watch 3 or 4 times every year as Christmas approaches. In one scene, Elf is in the department store and the manager announces that Santa is coming. Elf responds with euphoric, childlike elation as he exclaims, “Santaaaaa!!!! Santa’s here?! I know…

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Jesus came the 1st time, just as Scripture said. He will come the 2nd time, just as Scripture said.

Jesus came to this hostile planet when people could be hard as their lives.  His birth broke 400 years of deafening silence when not a word from God to man was heard. It was a messy and dangerous world, much like it is today. But when Jesus showed up, hope…

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What Does It Mean to Abide?

JOHN 15:4-5 says,  “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears…

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Are You Hanging On When You Should Be Letting Go?

Have you been casting your cares to the Lord like you’re casting a fishing line?
Or have you learned the skillful art of casting your cares to the Lord like you cast stones across the water?

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Need Hope?

In a small Texas Panhandle town, the farm business was booming. It was the 70’s and the government had stepped in with incentivized loans at low interest rates, giving the farmers a much needed break and the money they needed to grow their businesses. But the 80’s came roaring in…

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A Question Everyone Must Answer

  There’s a question each of us must answer. But one that most have gotten wrong.  Everyone of us was born with a nagging in our heart that there is more to life than this life. And so our individual spiritual journey begins. Seeking. Questioning. Doubting. Wrestling. But when people…

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Are You a “Far Off” or “Near in the Thick Darkness” Kind of Believer?

“So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.” Exodus 20:21 Moses was a draw near kind of guy. Even when it seemed scary… Moses was the one who scurried over to see what God was going to say, what God was going…

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