Is love really left to chance? Are we supposed to simply hope we get lucky in love, or is there more to it? Because love is often misunderstood, many have sought to obtain it, confine it or define it in human terms. But what does God say about love? In this post, Tammy shares truth from God’s word about His love, and how He loves us too much to leave it to chance.
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Making a Memorial for Jesus
Establishing memorials is a normal human activity. We establish memorials as a way to remind us of a person or event long after the person is gone or the event is over. We are desperate to never forget sacrificial loss and to be united again to our loved ones. We create memorials to remind ourselves: our loss was deep; a life mattered; we are forever changed.
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Pick One
Have you ever played the game where one person holds an item, hidden behind their back, while the other person has to guess which hand holds the item? The game is simple - pick one! In Deuteronomy 30:19-20, God offers two things straight from His hands for us to pick - life and death, blessings and curses. The one we pick reflects our relationship with God.
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Is Your Crown in the Gutter?
For Christians, the crown represents something of great spiritual value - a higher calling and intense sacrificial love. We ought to wear the crown Jesus gives us with pride, polishing it as often as we can and vowing never to let it slip from its rightful position in our lives. Sometimes, though, we let sin tarnish our crown and carelessly fall into the gutter.
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Sensing God’s Presence – Hear, See, Touch, Smell and Taste God Through Scripture
How can we recognize that we are not sensing God, and begin to seek him again? Just as we follow our noses to the smell of fresh-baked bread or our eyes to a lovely garden, let’s use the metaphor of our physical senses and see what Scripture says about sensing God’s presence in a spiritual way. Let’s hear, see, touch, smell and taste the Lord through the Bible!
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How to See the Goodness of God in Suffering (Romans 12:12)
Tammy recently experienced a time of great suffering. For those who don’t know the Lord, suffering must seem like an unsolicited punishment with an unknown outcome. But for those who know the Lord, we know we can trust his goodness in the worst of times; we are not without hope. God’s word, and specifically, Romans 12:12 can help us to cope.
