Tag: Christian community
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Refresh 4: Better Relationships (Colossians 3:5-17)
We’re usually pretty good at identifying what other people need to change. But what if the first step toward better relationships isn’t changing them—it’s allowing Jesus to change us? In Colossians 3, Paul shows us what to put to death, what to put away, what to put on, what to put up with, and what…
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Spiritual Directions (Acts 2:42-47)
Acts 2 gives us spiritual directions for the church: upward in worship, inward in community, outward in generosity, and forward with the gospel. The Spirit-empowered church is not organized around comfort and consumption, but around devotion to God, one another, the hurting, and the mission of Jesus Christ.
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Day 128: Friendship, Secrets, and an Appreciation for Tara-Leigh Cobble (Psalm 25:14)
Psalm 25:14, has been translated in two different ways, and my first is to figure out which one is “right.” But what if I’m asking the wrong question. I’m I willing to listen to a perspective that comes from a different place?
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Day 128: “Our Soul Waits” in Psalm 33:20
“Our soul waits for the Lord.” Shouldn’t it say “our souls wait?” But the Psalmist’s strange wording is intentional: a picture of God’s people united with one soul and one heart before the Lord.