Category: Christian Faith & Life
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How Do I Know I’m Blessed?
“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never…
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What Does Love Look Like?
What does love look like? Ask ten random people that question, and you’ll probably get ten different answers. Our world is full of ideas—some right, some partially right, and some blatantly, tragically wrong—of what love is and what it looks like. In his Word, God gives a different, very surprising answer of what love looks…
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Equipped to Live for God
Do you feel prepared to handle the tough questions in life? Where do you find your answers? This week’s comforting post from the NPH blog reminds you how God equips you to live for him.
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Proclaim the Good News
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke 4:18-19). Quoting these verses…
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Being in the Word Together
Inconsistent. If I’m being honest, that’s the word I’d use most often to describe my time spent in God’s Word: inconsistent. I have good and bad days, but I’m not in the Word daily. I want to be, but I’m not. I could give any number of reasons why I’m not, but they all sound…
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Knowing Christ’s Love
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”(Ephesians 3:17-19). Sometimes, the…
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What Is Baptism?
“When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having…
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Perfect Praise
If you read through Psalm 148, the psalmist makes it abundantly clear that everyone and everything in heaven above and on earth below have reason to praise God. He is the Creator of all things and all people. His name alone should be exalted and praised. Should . . . Ah, that’s a difficult and…