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What Tone Does God Take Toward You?

What tone do you think God takes towards you?   When you read stories of Jesus throughout Scripture, what does His voice sound like to you? Is your reading predominantly scholarly, removing most of the tone and inflection from the passages? Does He sound more firm and rigid? If you imagine thirty-year-old Jesus living alongside the disciples, going town to town to teach, heal and be present, do you picture his eyes cut in determination or framed in wrinkles from smile and...

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Christ in Control

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1  On the wall in my office, you will find this verse, handwritten by my granddaughter Sawyer. When she was in first grade, one of the activities in Sunday morning Bible study was to write out this scripture.   It has been on my wall to this day because it is such a reminder for me. A reminder to have hope. A reminder for my hope to be found in Christ alone. And a reminder...

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Prayer of Examen

 “Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.” Psalm 73:23  I have had an uncharacteristically hard time going to sleep lately. Typically, if my head is within 10 feet of my pillow I am already entering sleep mode. In college I made the choice not to do homework or watch movies in my bed. At the same time my friends were buying lap-desks for the express purpose of doing those things in theirs. I worked on training myself to equate my bed with sleep...

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