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Clay
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, ‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong.’ ” —Isaiah 45:9-10 🌿Believe Truth🌿 In the garden of Eden, we see the created challenging the Creator.…
Read MoreCome To The Table Part II
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table. Jesus said, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you.” —Luke 22:14-15 🌿Believe Truth🌿 Jesus begins his ministry at the wedding table at Cana. Jesus ends his ministry at the Passover table in Jerusalem.…
Read MoreCome To The Table
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 A table consists of 1 flat surface and 4 legs. Seemingly mundane and ever harmless, yet unobtrusively powerful. We arrive at the table to dine and drink, delve into conversations, discover connections, dive into concerns, and deepen character. We come to the table to gather, give, and grow. 🍃🍃🍃 The biblical significance of…
Read MoreTrust the Process
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 How can a young person stay pure? By obeying Your word. I have tried hard to find you—don’t let me wander from your commands. I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You. —Psalm 119:9-11 🌿Breath Truth🌿 Sin is a personal setback, not a prison sentence. Except…
Read MoreNames of Victory
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 At the AWANA Grand Prix last night, the large screen showed the names of children from a family I had not met before. They are new to the program this year. But AWANA is wonderful in bringing families all over the city to collaborate in learning Scriptures. Their children’s names were Exel, Flourish,…
Read MoreSurvival and Spiritual Skills
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt….I myself taught Israel how to walk, leading him along by the hand…. I led Israel along with my ropes of kindness and love. I lifted the yoke from his neck, and I myself stooped to feed him.”…
Read MoreHeart Turner
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “In Solomon’s old age, they (his wives) turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful to the Lord His God, as his father, David, had been.” —1 Kings 11:4 🌿Believe Truth🌿 One God. One worship. One heart devoted to following Yahweh. In the very beginning of his kingship, Solomon…
Read MoreRoamers and Returners
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “For someday the people will follow me. I, the Lord, will roar like a lion. And when I roar, my people will return trembling from the west.” —Hosea 11:10 🌿Believe Truth🌿 By nature, we are roamers and returners. Our restless minds veer off to roads unfamiliar and uncertain. Our restless souls seek…
Read MoreShirts, Dogs, Soap
“On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.” — Luke 13:10 Every Sunday, we park offsite and take a church shuttle so that there are enough parking…
Read MoreWorld Is An Expert Romancer
🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “Do not love this world, nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.” 1 John 2:15 🌿Believe Truth🌿 When Judas arrives with the Pharisee leaders to the Garden of Gesamene to arrest Jesus, he identifies Jesus with a…
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