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I Am The One Jesus Loves
This is part four of the October devotion series. If you missed the previous three, you can catch them here. Week one: Do You Know God Loves You?, week two: Does God Really Love Me?, and week three: Internalizing God’s Love for All People. Years ago, this story from a book I’ve referred to oh,…
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I Am The One Jesus Loves
This is part four of the October devotion series. If you missed the previous three, you can catch them here. Week one: Do You Know God Loves You?, week two: Does God Really Love Me?, and week three: Internalizing God’s Love for All People. Years ago, this story from a book I’ve referred to oh,…
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Internalizing God’s Love for All People
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:7). If you’re a Christian and you exclude people based on particular sins—your pet issues—you struggle with taking in…
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Internalizing God’s Love for All People
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:7). If you’re a Christian and you exclude people based on particular sins—your pet issues—you struggle with taking in…
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Does God Really Love Me?
When I wake up in the middle of the night I pray. Over the years, I’ve trained myself to recite, mutter, meditate on portions of Scripture I’ve memorized, or song lyrics locked in my mind that I pray back to God, until I fall back to sleep. Recently, God’s shown me something through this midnight…
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Does God Really Love Me?
When I wake up in the middle of the night I pray. Over the years, I’ve trained myself to recite, mutter, meditate on portions of Scripture I’ve memorized, or song lyrics locked in my mind that I pray back to God, until I fall back to sleep. Recently, God’s shown me something through this midnight…
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Do You Know God Loves You?
If I ask, “Does God love you?” generally, if you’ve had some experience with the God of the Bible (God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit), the answer will be a resounding, “Yes! Yes, God loves me!” And you’d be correct. He loves you more than you know. But then we live…
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Dig Deep Mama: Stay in Your Family Lane
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Proverbs 31:25 NIV Peer pressure isn’t for kids alone. We parents feel it, too. When we moved to the Philadelphia area in 2002, David and Aaron were 9 and 7. I’d help out in the schools a bit and found…
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Dig Deep Mama: Keep It Simple
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Proverbs 31:25 NIV You know your life. You know your schedule. Right now as decisions are being made you still hold the authority as the mother (maybe with another parent) to decide what stays and what goes. These children have…
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Dig Deep Mama: Keep It Simple
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Proverbs 31:25 NIV You know your life. You know your schedule. Right now as decisions are being made you still hold the authority as the mother (maybe with another parent) to decide what stays and what goes. These children have…
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