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Abba – Father: Because of Your love and
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Richard Herman
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Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6, Psalm 23:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philippians 4:6-7, Jeremiah 29:11
Abba – Father: Because of Your love and strength, we trust You … believing You are faithful, true and gracious. Thank You for coming into our world when we could not and would not come to You. You wal...
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Darth Vader
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- Faith
- Lack of Faith
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1 Peter 1:8-9, Ephesians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 10:17, Mark 9:23, Matthew 17:20, James 1:6
I find your lack of faith—disturbing.
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The Echo of an Argument
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John Ortberg
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- Anger
- Marriage
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2 Corinthians 5:18, Psalm 34:18, Romans 12:18, James 1:19-20, Proverbs 15:1, Matthew 6:14-15, Colossians 3:13
Philip Yancey writes of a friend whose marriage was choked by hostility. One night the friend reached the breaking point: “I hate you!” he screamed at his wife. “I won’t take it any more. I’ve had eno...
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A. W. Tozer
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1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Peter 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Colossians 1:16, Romans 8:24-25, John 20:29
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Science and Religion
- Faith
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James 1:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 10:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 20:29, Hebrews 11:1
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Less is More
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Mardy Grothe
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Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:21, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Titus 2:11-12, 1 Peter 1:14-16
Less is more. Coined by Robert Browning and popularized by the German-born American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, nothing could be further from the literal truth. But when people use this exp...
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Alicia Akins
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Psalm 139:7-10, Isaiah 41:10, John 3:8, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Psalm 66:10-12
We can rest knowing the Lord’s presence transcends what we feel. Just like the flow of the air, he is moving even if his movements cannot be perceived. And where God is not just felt but known, faith ...
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Playing for His Master
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Steven C. Roy
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Colossians 3:23-24, Galatians 1:10, 2 Corinthians 5:9, 1 Corinthians 4:3-4, Romans 12:1, John 12:43, Matthew 6:1
A story is told of a young violinist who lived in London many years ago. He was a superb musician. He loved his music and enjoyed playing before small groups of people in the homes of friends. But he ...
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Emotions, Language, and the Experience of Homesickness
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Jen Pollock Michel
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Hebrews 11:13-16, 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, John 14:2-3, Revelation 21:3-4, Matthew 8:19-20, Luke 9:57-58
In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on the language associate...
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Flannery O'Connor
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Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...
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Gordon T. Smith
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Exodus 14:10-22 , Joshua 1:1-9, Matthew 4:18-20, Acts 9:1-19, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 121:1-3
Transition is one of the givens in our lives, and we only live well, we only manage our lives well, when we manage these transitions well. Our world changes; the circumstances of our lives change. The...
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Immanuel Kant
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- Humanity
- Sin
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Philippians 1:6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:8, Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:23
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Michael Gerson
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- Faith
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John 20:29, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
Faith, thankfully, does not preclude doubt. It consists of staking your life on the rumor of grace.
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John Ortberg
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- Faith
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Matthew 14:31, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24, James 1:5-6
We live in an age when belief comes hard because we’re much more afraid of being gullible (believing something that’s not true) than we are of being skeptical (not believing something that is true). W...
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Yesterday I was a Dog…
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Ephesians 4:22-24, Galatians 6:9, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 40:1-3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philippians 3:13-14
Some people find themselves stuck in a rut. Without challenge or new opportunities, they begin to sound like Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoons: “Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll p...
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The Problem with the Human Race
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Timothy Keller
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Galatians 3:10, Psalm 130:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Ecclesiastes 12:14, James 2:10
Imagine you have an invisible recorder around your neck that, for all your life, records every time you say to somebody else, “You ought.” It only turns on when you tell somebody else how to live. In ...
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Dave Miller
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- Sin
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John 10:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:6-7, Galatians 2:20, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 34:17-18, Romans 7:24-25
“What’s wrong with me is me. Somebody needs to pull me from the raging waters I call ‘me.’
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Gentle God, we have wandered away
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Steve Garnaas Holmes
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Jeremiah 31::3-4 , Hosea 14:1-4, Joel 2:12-13 , Luke 15:3-7 , 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 , Psalm 103:8-12
Gentle God, we have wandered away from you, from your love, and from what gives you deepest delight in our lives, so our lives become hollow and hungry, lost and lonely. We return to you. Rece...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Matthew 2:1-12, Titus 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 8:12, Matthew 5:3-10, Romans 12:2, Galatians 5:1, Genesis 12:1-4, Ephesians 4:22-24, Isaiah 1:18
Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him Who freed me From the self that I have been. Make me pure, Lord: Thou art holy...
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Doubting Santa’s Existence?
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Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans
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- Christmas
- Santa Claus
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Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Matthew 18:3-4, Psalm 8:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6
It is astonishing that some people still doubt the existence of Santa Claus. Despite the vast amount of photographic evidence, the hundreds of annual reports on Father Christmas’s activities from perf...
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Martin Luther
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- Control
- Faith
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Matthew 17:20, Psalm 34:8, Isaiah 26:3-4, Jeremiah 17:7-8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6
Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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Lord Jesus Christ, at your birth the
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Chip Hardwick
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Luke 2:13-14, Isaiah 9:6, Luke 2:8-20, Proverbs 16:18, John 12:43, Matthew 23:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Matthew 5:9, Luke 10:25-37, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 51:10, Luke 22:54-62, Psalm 46:10, Matthew 26:36-46, John 14:13-14
Lord Jesus Christ, at your birth the angels gave glory to God in the highest heaven, and offered peace on earth to all humankind. We struggle to follow the heavenly host. All too often we focus on giv...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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jobs concluding, stages finishing
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Ted Loder
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Isaiah 43:18–19, Lamentations 3:22–23, John 12:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 4:4–5, Psalm 40:1–3
jobs concluding, stages finishing, grieving over, grudges over, blaming over, excuses over. O God, grant me your sense of timing. In this season of ...
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Charles Wesley
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- Christmas
- Reconciliation
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Luke 2:13-14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Romans 5:10-11
Hark the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!"
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Three Dollars Worth of God
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Wilbur Rees
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Galatians 2:20, 2 Corinthians 5:17, James 2:14-17, John 3:3, Philippians 3:10, Romans 12:2
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk, or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God t...
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The Mayor in the Projects
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Melinda Joy Mingo
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Revelation 21:3, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:3, Isaiah 53:5, Hebrews 2:14-15, Matthew 1:23
During spring 1981, one of my favorite persons at the time, Chicago mayor Jane Byrne, made the announcement that she and her husband were going to move into my old neighborhood: the Cabrini-Green hous...
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Leader: We are people of the
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Jacob Traeger
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1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Romans 6:4, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 32:5, 1 John 1:8-9, Philippians 4:6-7, Hebrews 13:5-6
Leader: We are people of the resurrection. Witnesses to God’s glorious victory in Jesus Christ, which brings peace and transforms the power structures of this world. But we also know that we live in ...
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Source Unknown
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Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:24-25, Psalm 27:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:7
I believe in the sun though it is late in rising. I believe in love though it is absent. I believe in God though He is silent.
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D. Michael Lindsay
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Genesis 12:1-4 , Psalm 23:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Matthew 4:18-22, Joshua 1:1-9
At their core, transitions are the internal adjustments by which we reorient ourselves to new environments, new experiences, and new seasons of life.

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