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Accomplishing Goals For God vs Pursing a Relationship with God

(A version of this post was originally published Nov 23, 2020 under the title “Accomplishing Goals For God vs Pursing God Who Then Gives Us His Goals.”) Pursing a relationship with God should always be the most important thing in … Continue reading

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How Are you Responding To God?

In the medieval time period, vassals (a landholder or lesser lord) would be bequeathed land by a landowner (a liege lord), and for this land the vassal would swear their loyalty and service to their liege lord. The king was … Continue reading

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How Do We Seek First the Kingdom of God? (Part 4)

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about what we are to treasure, and in Part 2, we talked about whether or not we have an eye for what is good (for what we should be doing and treasuring). … Continue reading

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How Do We Seek First the Kingdom of God? (Part 1)

Lately, I’ve been pondering the verse “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33 Have you ever felt so overwhelmed that you just want to throw up your … Continue reading

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Are We Giving the Best of Ourselves to God?

Have you every noticed how lots of people call themselves Christians (Christ-Followers), and yet looking at their lives, it’s very hard to see anything or any part of themselves that they’ve actually giving to God? For some people being a … Continue reading

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Being Faithful in Little Things

Why is being faithful in the little things so important? We encounter this Biblical concept a lot of places in Scripture, but two stories that stand out in their exhortation about our faithfulness to small things come from stories Jesus … Continue reading

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God Does Not Force Us, Rather He Gives Us Freedom

Recently, I have found myself contemplating freewill more and more. Being given a choice and not being forced to comply to someone else’s wishes is a reality that has always mattered deeply to me. I have always been a “why?” … Continue reading

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Accomplishing Goals For God vs Pursing God Who Then Gives Us His Goals

So, as some of you may have noticed and others of you probably didn’t notice, I had no new post last week. I went on vacation without my computer, and though I had every intention of writing and scheduling a … Continue reading

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Will You Explore the Truth of the Empty Tomb or Spread the Lie?

Jesus’s existence is not often debated. The fact that He was crucified by the Romans is also not usually a topic of debate. What is commonly debated though is whether or not Jesus was/is the Son of God and if … Continue reading

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Keep Keeping On

Money is one of my biggest struggles. Have you ever felt like quitting whatever it is God’s asking you to do because of finances? I’ve often been tempted to quit pursuing writing and instead find what I often classify as a … Continue reading

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