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Go Deeper: The Belt Of Truth
What Gets the Final Word? In the Reflection, we saw that we live surrounded by voices—family, culture, friends, experiences, emotions, wounds, fear and beliefs we may have carried for years. The question isn’t whether those voices influence us. The question is: When those voices disagree with God, which one gets the final word? This study…
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When the Cardboard Armor Becomes Real
If you spent your childhood Sundays in church, you may remember the Armor of God. Maybe it was Sunday school or Vacation Bible School. We colored pictures of Roman soldiers. We cut shields out of cardboard, made swords from construction paper, and carefully labeled every piece. The Belt of Truth.The Breastplate of Righteousness.The Gospel of…
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Mirror, Mirror: Who’s the Fairest Christian of All?
We know the question. “Mirror, mirror…” Who is the fairest of them all? It is a question of comparison. Who measures up? Who doesn’t? Who is getting it right? And I wonder if sometimes we approach our faith the same way. We open Scripture and somehow the first person we see in it is someone…
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Go Deeper: Why the Salmon?
What Do I See? • What Does God Say? • How Do I Align? The reflection Why the Salmon? began with a moment of exhaustion. “I feel like a salmon swimming upstream pointlessly, only to meet my death in the end.” What I could see was resistance.What I could feel was exhaustion. But 2 Corinthians…
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Why the Salmon?
There are seasons when following God feels like swimming upstream. Everything around you seems to be moving in the opposite direction. The current is strong. You are tired. And you begin to wonder why you are fighting so hard against something that would be so much easier to simply surrender to. I found myself there…
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Who Gets to Define Good Character?
When grace, truth, and leadership collide There is a question I have been thinking about lately: What does it actually mean to represent Christ well? It sounds simple until we have to live it. We are told that we are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27). Jesus is called “the image of the…
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You Are Being Formed
I have always thought I understood what an idol was. A golden calf. A carved image. A false god. Something people in the Old Testament bowed down to instead of God. Easy enough to recognize. And then I started noticing something in Scripture that I couldn’t stop thinking about. Image. We are created in the…
