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How We Can Forgive Past Hurts

We’ve all had someone cause us great hurt, pain, suffering, or injustice. Our knee-jerk reaction may be to make them pay, retaliate, or hope they get what’s coming to them. But Christians are called to forgive. That can be hard even for the smallest offenses, but what about when we have deep, lasting pain, trauma,Continue reading “How We Can Forgive Past Hurts”

Flashback Friday – Letter to a Titus 2 Woman

What does true discipleship look like? We often read about it, but how does that translate to being lived out in everyday life? In Paul’s letter to Titus, his child in the faith, he instructs him on the importance of sound doctrine and doing good works and lays out a model for passing down thisContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Letter to a Titus 2 Woman”

Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness

Hopeless – “having no expectation of good or success, not susceptible to remedy or cure, and incapable of redemption or improvement” (Merriam-Webster). We feel it as despair or that dark hole of existence we think we will never be able to climb out of. As of late, it seems to be a common theme forContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness”

The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, . . . that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filledContinue reading “The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love”

Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace

I remember coming in from recess on a hot spring day, sweaty neck and dirty knees, standing in line with a bunch of other matted-haired children for the drinking fountain. Hinging down and titling my neck at my turn, I couldn’t wait for that cool stream of relief to roll down my throat. To myContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace”

Do You Do Well to be Angry?

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. The word reachedContinue reading “Do You Do Well to be Angry?”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part One): Is God Truly Knowable?

Who is God? What is he like? Is he even knowable? And if so, why should we want to know him? These are all important questions to ask and each deserves a fair consideration. In this series of articles we will look at these questions and more, but for now we will only deal withContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part One): Is God Truly Knowable?”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 2): Why Should We Study the Attributes of God?

“All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.” —A. W. Tozer Everyone knows there is a God. This isContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 2): Why Should We Study the Attributes of God?”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 3): Holiness

There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. 1 Samuel 2:2 What do you think of when you hear the word holy? Perhaps you think of a special place like the Holy Land in Israel. Maybe it’s a special time of year like HolyContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 3): Holiness”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 4): Independence

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. (Acts 17:24-25) From the time we canContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 4): Independence”