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Giving God Thanks
We are nearing the end of 2022. We changed our clocks back last Sunday. Our days are shorter and darker and slightly cooler. Reflection on what God has done in our lives, relationships, church, community,...
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Paving the Way of Faith
âTherefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked...
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I Will Pray
Pray for those who grieve. Pray for those who celebrate. Pray for the world, our community, and our church. Pray for your family. Pray for yourself! God always wants to hear from you. Prayer flexes...
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Salt & Light
âYou are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled...
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How Tight is Your Grip?
âBe still and know that I am Godâ – Psalm 46:10 The command âbe stillâ comes from the Hebrew phrase rapha, which means let go of your grip. Every Fall the trees teach us how beautiful...
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Being Present
BLESSING IN THE STORMI cannot claim to still the storm that has seized you,cannot calm the waves that wash through your soul,that break against your fierce and aching heart.But I will wade into these waters,will stand with you in this storm,will say peace...
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Changing Seasons
As seasons change up north, we in South Florida receive the birds who are escaping the cold. Eventually, there will be less humidity and slightly cooler temperatures, too. In the seasons of our lives where...
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Perspective
On Wednesday, I led Chapel services for our preschool students ages 2-4. Sixty-four little ones were packed into the seats in the front section of Rudy Chapel. I taught My God is So Great with hand motions,...
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Rest and Renewal
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters Godâs rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter...
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God’s Beauty
God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 What is beauty? Most of us...