Faith and Encouragement

God's love is eternal

You Can’t Make God Love You More

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes Falling in love has become a strange thing. We can spend years drawing someone’s name in notebooks, feeling our heart pound when their name appears on our phone, and fantasizing about spending a lifetime together. For some, that love doesn’t last. Almost without warning our love for them stops growing, begins fading, and in time […]

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Your Weakness Isn’t Failure

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes Christians are supposed to have it all together. With the Holy Spirit making us more and more like our savior, our call to “Be holy as God is holy” should be attainable. Yet the closer we get to God, the more we see how willfully we sin and how incapable we are of being holy.

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Don’t (Just) Worship on Sunday

Don’t (Just) Worship on Sunday

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes As a word nerd, it’s fascinating to see how language develops over time. Our vocabulary is filled with words whose original meanings have been lost to time. Something awful would fill us with awe. Meat was a broad term for “solid food.” And for Christians, worship is fast becoming a term that means little more

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Hard Truths from True Friends

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes When a Christian friend is in sin, the “right thing” can be difficult to discern. We want them to follow Christ, but we can’t condone what they’re doing. Our culture tells us not to make people feel bad about themselves, yet the Bible seems pretty harsh about some sins. What’s the right answer to a

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