God isn’t tempting us.

We will all face temptations on this side of heaven. It doesn’t matter how good of a person we are, or how hard we work to follow Christ, we all deal with it. But it isn’t God that is doing the tempting. Our own evil desires and enticings from Satan are what lead us to sin. God does allow sin in ou

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Are you IGNORING GOD?

How often are we waiting for God to speak to us, all the while ignoring what He’s saying? It happens over and over again in Scripture, so we should not believe that we are above it. Let’s take the time to listen to His voice, and ask Him to open up our ears, minds, and hearts so that we don’t miss

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Recognizing God‘s creation

There is a reason why when we look at nature, we experience peace in our hearts. God has left his fingerprints all over creation, and when we look at the beauty of it, we can see Him. In the same way, we were handcrafted by the hands that created the universe, and there’s beauty in each of us. F

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Slow Down.

It is important not to be lazy or not have things going on in our lives that are good because a lot of times we will fill them with things that are bad. But it is also a dangerous thing to get so busy that we don’t hear the voice of God or we miss out on the things that God wants us to do. 41

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God is bigger than we can understand.

God is big. REALLY big. Not just big in the sense of how He is in and through all of the vastness of the universe, but also how He is at work in so many ways that we can’t see or understand. Scripture is an incredible revelation from God that gives us the information we need to know about Him, His

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Don’t sell your birthright to heaven

Stories in Scriptire have more meaning than what’s on the surface. The story of Jacob and Esau is more than a story about not being impulsive, it teaches us about the effects of sin and how we should prioritize our lives. 16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a

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God disciplines those He loves.

Having to endure hardship in our lives (sometimes as a result of our own actions or decisions, and sometimes not) is not a sign of God turning away from us. The same way in which we as parents must discipline or teach our children by allowing them to struggle sometimes instead of doing everything f

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Don’t live to please anyone—not even God

We aren’t called to love a life to please others — people’s hearts are often not aligned with God’s will, so trying to please them will often lead us to a life not aligned with what God wants for us. Also, we shouldn’t live life to please God. When we do that, we get trapped in the lie that God’s

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Where does your guilt lead you?

Conviction from the Holy Spirit is a blessing, when we let it lead us to repentance, where Jesus can take the weight off of our shoulders and welcome us into his loving arms. The enemy would love for it to lead us to shame, isolation, depression and self hate. So instead, let’s let our guilt lead u

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Sometimes we need the pain

Without pain, we wouldn’t know what it means to feel good. Without struggle, we wouldn’t appreciate success. Similarly, without knowing what sin is, we can’t appreciate our need for a Savior. For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the prom

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Sometimes we need the pain

Without pain, we wouldn’t know what it means to feel good. Without struggle, we wouldn’t appreciate success. Similarly, without knowing what sin is, we can’t appreciate our need for a Savior. For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the prom

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Nothing is unimportant to God

We may view tasks as small, unimportant, or even beneath us, but to God, nothing is unimportant, because He uses everything to bring about His will and to fulfill His plan for this world. So, what might be even more important than what we do in the world is who are we doing it for? So whether yo

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Feeling distant from the Father, Jesus, or Spirit?

Our God is one God in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It can be a hard concept to wrap our heads around, and what can add to that difficulty is the fact that we can feel closer or more distant from on of the Persons of God than another! When we feel this way, it is important to spend

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We must receive in order to give

We are called to love others as ourself, to treat others the way we want to be treated, which is really to say that we should try to treat others with the same grace, mercy, and love that God offers us. But in order to truly give that love and forgiveness to others, we must also be able to accept i

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It’s not our job to get what we want.

In a culture that is all about hustling and claiming what we think we deserve or want, it’s important to understand that isn’t our job. If we truly want to have a life of meaning, our only job is to do our best to discern what God’s will is for us, and then to do our best to follow His will. That t

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SUFFERING turned to EMPATHY

God doesn’t use our struggles and sufferings to only benefit us, but to benefit others as well. Our individual pain and strife puts us in a unique position to help others going through the same thing, in a way that no one else can. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

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How is Jesus our High Priest?

The High Priest was the only one allowed to enter the Most Holy Place of the Temple, and that on only one day of the year, during the Day of Atonement. On that day, the High Priest was able to stand in the presence of God and make sacrifices for the sins of the people of all of Israel. Jesus is our

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How should we approach God?

How should we approach God? First and foremost — just come! You don’t need to have fancy words, or have to worry about saying the right thing. Just bring whatever it is that you have! But what kind of attitude should we have when we do so? It’s impossible for us to fully comprehend prayer, what

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Life is Harder Without God

Life is hard, no matter what you do. We live in a fallen world where doing the right things and following Jesus are often ridiculed, persecuted in some places, or at the very least run completely against the grain of the world. But living a life apart from God, apart from the purpose we were create

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Kids’ Questions About Faith and Angels

Questions are great things. They are opportunities to dig deeper into Scripture and gain a better understanding of our own faith. What you don’t want to do is try to make up and answer or say something that the Bible doesn’t say. Also, there are questions that the Bible doesn’t give us specific ans

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