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The Ache We Carry If you’re anything like me, you’ve known that quiet ache—that gnawing whisper that maybe you’re not enough, maybe you don’t belong, maybe God feels distant. Even […]

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You Were Made to be Pursued by Love: The Ache for Love That Won’t Let Go Beloved, can we be honest? Most of us at some point have asked the […]

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Known by Our Love? When Agreement Replaces Love We’re living in a moment where disagreement feels like the air we breathe. Our nation is divided. Our world is divided. And […]

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The Approval We Already Have Have you ever caught yourself wondering if God is pleased with you? Maybe you mentally replay your week—how often you prayed, how much you served, […]

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When Unity Is Tested in a Divided World What do you do when you love someone… but deeply disagree with them? That’s not a rhetorical question anymore—it’s our everyday reality. […]

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Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’m not strong enough for this,” or “I must not have enough faith or this wouldn’t be so hard”? Me too. Those moments of […]

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Words That Shape Worlds Let there be light. Four simple words—and the cosmos unfolded, the Trinity operating in unison The Father as the initiator and source (Gen. 1:1, Heb. 11:3)The […]

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The Invitation Back to Wonder The world says, “Grow up. Toughen up. Take control.” Jesus says something entirely different: Unless you change and become like little children, you will never […]

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The Family You’ve Always Belonged To Have you ever felt like the odd one out? Like maybe—just maybe—you’re too messy, too broken, too complicated to belong in the “family of […]

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When Church Hurts: Why So Many Are Rethinking Their Faith (and Not Wrong To) You don’t stop being the Church just because you stop going to one. For many, church […]

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