A 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,…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 1: The Beginning of a Beautiful Life
What a Beautiful Life Really Means Life can be hard. It can be wonderful. It can be challenging and fun and exciting and uncertain. And it can be beautiful. Even in the midst of the most difficult or exciting moments of life, the life God desires for us to have as believers beautiful. But what…
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