Over the last month or so, I have been taking a look at beauty throughout Scripture. What is included below is only a portion of its uses, yet I think it is a well rounded look at what God intended to communicate in regard to the issue.
I. The Beauty of God
“I saw that from what […]
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Idolatry. We all know what it is and what it does. It’s a deadly disease of the heart that leads to our lives being consumed by something other than God. It’s a plague that pushes Christ to the back burner of our souls. It’s sin.
Idolatry is nothing new. It’s been around forever. You can read […]
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I closed the book slowly, my mind still lingering on the final words. A weighty dullness brooded over my senses and all I could think of with any clarity was the world in the story that I had just finished. My discontent and selfishness had found vent as I was carried along by the story […]
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Thanks, Hännah, for these honest, provoking words that turn our gaze to the Savior.
You know the sort of day—when you wake up in a funk and can’t shake the overwhelming power of your own selfishness, and the very last thing you want to do is to humble yourself and meet with the Lord. You’re […]
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Hands, calloused and browned from long hours working in the sun-bright Judean city of Nazareth. Strong and steady on the tools and wood he fashioned into furniture and houses for his kin and customers, they were at ease with hard work. The sinews in his arms and hands grew taut and rippled smooth again and […]
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When my sister Manda was pregnant, she was nervous.
Understandably so! Yet she was nervous in a way that I could not entirely understand personally. She was nervous that she wouldn’t like the Baby that much. She’s not a kid person. Or a baby person. She had some bad mental images of her single mother constantly […]
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Truth be told, there’s a long list of things I try to avoid. I don’t think I’m alone on this. All of us try to “hide” from unpleasant things, don’t we? We hide from annoying people, difficult changes, uncomfortable situations. Our natural inclination is to avoid work, pain, punishment, the truth, sometimes even the future. […]
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I didn’t want to surrender this. The Lord was claiming it—taking it away from me. It was for my good, He told me. But I liked things as they were, and didn’t want to give it up. I didn’t think I would be happy without this thing; didn’t think I could do without it. Yet, […]
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Take a minute to imagine with me, if you will, the idea of “a sovereign”. Theological connotations aside, in a more worldly sense we probably think of rulers, kings, dictators, or even tyrants. Webster tells us that a sovereign is, “one that exercises supreme authority”. But to be subject to someone with supreme authority isn’t […]
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Matt. 6: 28b, 29 – KJV)
How often have I heard this verse? And yet, last night, I felt […]
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