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  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: More Like Jesus, Part 8

    This study is loosely based on the study More Like Jesus from Not Consumed. Can you imagine being alive during this time? People had waited for 400 years where God had been silent, yet they were still waiting for the Messiah. John the Baptist comes on the scene and begins teaching everyone of repentance. He teaches them of…

  • Sunday Singing: God of Every Grace

    Facing mountains? Weary? Tired? Discouraged? I love the reminders in this song. Our pain and weariness is real. Yet, we have the God of every grace. As a friend said to me this week, “I don’t know how people do this without God.”

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Ephesians 5:1-2

    Winter brings much time to contemplate life. It hit me recently that as children we think that adults have it all together and know so much. We looked to our parents, teachers, pastors and other role models for how to handle things, not realizing that they are learning as they go as well. For my…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 12

    Have you ever had a passage of Scripture that just keeps coming up again and again and again in a week? I have. It makes me pause as I sense that God has a reason for that. We have been talking about long-suffering. This passage has been coming up repeatedly, particularly verses 8-9. Psalm 16:8-9…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 11

    I know you feel it every day. The tedium of chronic illness, disability or isolation. Even when we don’t dwell on it, we feel it. It is there and affects every area of life. How can we be long-suffering and honor God in the midst? While today’s verses do not specifically mention long-suffering, they do…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 10

    Trials. Suffering. How do we get through it? God is our sufficiency. God cares. He is sufficient and even brings us joy through it. I know it gets long. Cry out to Him today. He is our help in the long-suffering season. Psalm 16 “16 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 9

    Today, as we think about longsuffering, we are going to think about it from the perspective of trust. It is so easy when we are going through something to forget that God has a plan. When the suffering goes on and on, it is hard to remember that we need to trust Him. Proverbs 3:5-6…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 8

    2 Peter 3:8-10 “8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 7

    Do you feel unworthy of God’s love? Is it because of your past, your disability or your financial status? Good knews. God loves you. He is long-suffering toward us. Think of the apostle Paul. Before he came to Christ, he was one who persecuted Christians. He did horrible things to them, thinking that he was…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Longsuffering, Part 6

    Longsuffering is a fruit of the spirit and a choice we have to make. Paul says in Colossians 3:8-17, speaking to the believers, “8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man…