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The Greatest Adventure // Part 3: Miracles Happen
A God of Miracles When people think of miracles, sometimes they think of magicians or make-believe. It’s easier to have something that you can explain versus believing in something that has no logical explanation. We want to have a conclusion, a reasoning, and something to point to that makes it simple and rational. If we…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 2: God’s Call
God’s Call on your Life Each individual Christ-follower is being called to a specific task and purpose. Some people are called into the business world. Others are called into ministry. Some are led to teach the next generation. Whatever passions God has placed in your heart, whatever goals and dreams He’s given you, whatever aspirations…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 1: Born for a Purpose
Born on Purpose For a Purpose What’s the last difficult season that you walked through? Or are you walking through a hard season right now? Have you ever felt, in this season, that God has abandoned you or doesn’t realize what He’s doing? You’re not alone, friend. We all have been through trying circumstances when…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 8: Confident in Christ
Lesser Gods What’s the idol in your life? Is there something that you put on a pedestal? Something that is so important that you couldn’t imagine living without it? Whether we realize it (or admit it) or not, we all have idols in our lives. We all have things, people, or ideas that we put…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 7: Full of Faith
Our Victory When we talk with older, wiser people who have lived through many different things, we have this inclination to want to lean in and listen to what they have to say. We want to listen to the lessons they’ve learned, the ways they’ve grown in their faith, and the stories of challenges they…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 6: Possess Discernment
Be on Guard, Christian Think back to a time when you got fooled by someone or something. Whether that’s a junk email that fools us into clicking, an advertisement that promotes something that isn’t all that it seems, or a person who tells us something that ends up being untrue, we sometimes need help determining…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 5: Filled with Love
The Distinguishing Mark of a Christ-Follower A Beautiful Life is one that is filled with love. It’s a life that overflows with the love of Christ that, consequently, pours into everything else that we do. In the book of 1 John, the apostle John uses the word love 42 times. That’s a whole lot of…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 4: Invests in Others
A Perfect Father Earthly fathers can have a huge impact on our lives, whether they are a very active part of our lives or whether they have been absent or unavailable. Our earthly fathers are not nor can not be perfect. The good thing is, no matter what your earthly father is like, we have…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 3: Understands Eternity
The End Times are Here Have you ever noticed that it seems that the older a person gets, the less they seem to care about what other people think? After they’ve lived some life, it’s more about them passing on what they’ve learned and grown in during their lifetime than about caring what others are…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 2: Grows Daily
What Spiritual Maturity Looks Like We all want to live a life that is beautiful. We want a life that is characterized by love, peace, joy, and grace. We long for freedom from the struggles of this life. But, how do we get there? Well, it starts with growth. We all have to start somewhere,…
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