Nails
I don’t like pain. I don’t think any normal person does, either. But during this time of celebrating the resurrection of Christ, I began to think about His suffering and sacrifice for our sins. I know we say He was “Fully God and Fully Man” and we think the God-part superseded the Man-part and enabled Him to do everything else with ease.
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One
Jesus knew his time was short. He said so in John 16 when he’s telling his disciples “But now I go my way to him that sent me…” Many things Jesus does with his remaining hours don’t reflect what I (and probably you) would do with...
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Rooted
I sat in my car the other day and watched as 45 mile an hour winds blew around loose debris, overturned garbage cans, shook cars, buildings, and power lines, ripped off dead tree branches, and generally made a mess of the Puget Sound. Just off to my left was a pretty good sized magnolia
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Weightless
While getting ready for church Sunday morning, I glanced out the bedroom window toward a grove of giant oak trees a few houses down from me, standing about five stories tall and bare, since it is still officially winter and the leaves haven’t come in just yet. Though I was impressed by the sheer size of the trees and how much detail I could see from that distance, what really got my attention was a bird perched on the very top of one of them.
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