Tag Archives: Are we focusing on God?

Why is Age Important?

This is a repost from Nov 7, 2016 Why do we have ages? What difference does age make? Obviously time does pass and we do change with “age,” yet what is age really? And how does it affect the way … Continue reading

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How Can We Gain Good Community?

Have you ever come and gone from a church service, a social event, or a friend’s party and left feeling like you were there yet no one really saw you? Or have you ever been scrolling through a social media … Continue reading

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Competition vs Community

As humans we often compare ourselves to others, and either find them or ourselves wanting. It’s an exhausting rat-race that more often than not leads to discouragement and a heart of competition versus a heart of community in which we … Continue reading

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Side Trip Movie Review: Frozen II (Continued Part 2)

As I promised last week, here is the final continuation of my review of Frozen II. I left off last week talking about the four spirits in Frozen II (which Ahtohallan “River of Memory” could arguable be said to be … Continue reading

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When You Don’t Feel Like Facing the New Year

For many of us life probably looks a lot like it did three weeks ago. For others of us maybe we started a new job, a new set of classes, or have launched into our new year’s resolutions.  Whether there … Continue reading

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Evaluating Our Priorities

  We are people of habits. We function very much within a status quo. Yet there are times when our previous way of existing is taken away. What do we do when the pursuits by which we have found purpose, … Continue reading

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Finding Peace in a World of Fear

The world fears many things and usually all the wrong things. There is a rampant fear of death but an appalling lack of fear of living in opposition to the God of the Universe. The world thinks that control over … Continue reading

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Weary and Scattered?

We don’t really want to be seen for who and what we really are, but unless we are seen we will never truly know love, acceptance, and hope. Mat 9:36 “But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with … Continue reading

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Focus This Year on God and His Gifts

What if this next year, instead of focusing on what we can accomplish for God, we focused on what God wants to give us? At New Years we are often found paying attention to all the areas in our life … Continue reading

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The Power of Praising God

Once we’ve accepted the new life Christ has given us, our life of sin is put to death. We have freedom in Christ. How do we live in the power of that position? We praise! Satan is defeated in our … Continue reading

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