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Jesus' Spicy Grannies Devotions: Rahab advent believing god christmas confidence in god daily bible reading plan faith Dec 17, 2024

As the 2nd woman mentioned in Matthews' genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1), we know that Rahab has something to tell us. Something God wants us to remember today. 

While Tamar pretended to be a...

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Why is Deconstruction Such a "Thing" Today? a mothers love for her adult kids apostasy christian no more church hurt confidence in god deconstructing faith deconversion family estrangement god's got this Feb 06, 2024

In a conference I led for Lifeway Christian Resources back in November, I asked this question:

WHY IS DECONSTRUCTION SUCH A “THING” TODAY?

And then I attempted to answer it by sharing...

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Facing the Facts While Clinging to God's Promises believing god can i trust god confidence in god devotions faith fear and faith god's got this hope peace Jan 09, 2024

If I could have visited Joseph about 6 months into his prison sentence, I would have asked him if he still believed God's promises. 

"Joseph, what do you make of all those dreams God gave you...

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Deep Dive into Jesus' Prodigal Story Part 2: A Relationship is Broken, Not a Law a mothers love for her adult kids apostasy bible reading christian no more confidence in god family estrangement fathers mothers parenting parenting prodigals parents of adult children Sep 11, 2023

Once we understand the culture of Jesus' day, we have a greater awareness of the impact His story of the prodigal son had on His audience.

The original audience for this parable

Don't forget who...

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Binding and Loosing: A Powerful Privilege and Responsibility for Us begging in prayer being light believing god confidence in god faith god's got this hope in god how to win spiritual battles Aug 09, 2023

I rarely ever, in fact, have never done this before but I'm doing it this week because this message is so important for us to embrace. In preparing for my podcast this week I came across a powerful...

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Let the Music Move You! My Personal "Battle Songs" Play List begging in prayer believing god can i trust god confidence in god fear and faith god's got this Jul 24, 2023

When I wrote Spiritual Warfare for WomenI said a lot of things I knew were true, but hadn't yet experienced the full weight of their truth.  Like this, the first sentence in the...

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With Me?ā€¦Without Me! believing god can i trust god christian no more confidence in god curse of the fall faith heaven hell Jul 14, 2023

One of mine and Tom’s favorite lines in a movie is the one Roy Miller (played by Tom Cruise) relayed to June Havens (played by Cameron Diaz) in Knight and Day.

CLICK HERE to see it.

Many...

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Is God Everywhere All the Time? believing god can i trust god confidence in god faith god's got this god's soveriegnty and prayer truth where is god when it hurts Jul 09, 2023

The Psalmist wrote this, 

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my...

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Did God Create the Devil? believing god can i trust god confidence in god curse of the fall faith god's soveriegnty and prayer gospel and new age hope in god spiritual warfare victory Jun 12, 2023

Here's a question for us!

Did God create the devil?

I mean, if God is good, and everything He does is good; and if God  created everything, did He create the devil? And how could...

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"What the Heck?!" A Prayer God Always Answers begging in prayer believing god can i trust god confidence in god god's got this how to pray how to pray for someone i love secret to answered prayer where is god when it hurts May 09, 2023

There are times that my prayers aren't very nice. I'll be the first to admit that I sometimes forget myself when I blurt out the first thing on my mind (or rather on my heart); especially when...

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Come Home! Praying for the Lost and Those Who've Lost Their Way confidence in god courage to share faith god's got this hope in god prayer for others prayer power praying for the lost what good does it do to pray Apr 03, 2023

As we celebrate holy week this week, many Christ followers will be participating in activities to remember what Jesus did to reunite us with God. His passion both for His Father and for us...

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Is God's Grace Resistible? begging in prayer believing god can i trust god confidence in god courage to share god's got this god's soveriegnty and prayer irresistible grace prayer Mar 19, 2023

In my previous post, I shared excerpts from 3 articles that support this statement: Grace is irresistible.

In this post I'm going to discuss how a theology of irresistible grace affects our...

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