Tag: Hope
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A shoot shall sprout…
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Spend a few moments looking for those ‘shoots’ sprouting from the ‘stumps’ of your life.
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Hope in Suffering
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The cross of Jesus is the only way to make sense of the suffering we experience.
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Finding God in the Fog of a New Year
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With the unseasonably warm weather this late December, there is a lot of morning fog rising off of Lake Norman and offers a great metaphor to enter the New Year.
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The trees point to the cross
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Celebrating the birth is wonderful, but the cross reminds us that whatever we face “God is with us” to lead us through life’s challenges.
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Be Opened!
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“At the heart of the Gospel is a word that sums up the whole message of Christ.” Ephatha – be opened!
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Looking at the Sky
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In our busyness, it is easy to forget to look to the sky. We tend to think life is all toil and drudgery, and when we die, we will finally experience peace. We forget we are built for the infinity. We like gazing at the sky because we are destined…
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Peering into the fog
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I wanted blue skies and sunshine to conclude the retreat, but instead was only able to see the trees up close and fog beyond. Maybe that’s how God wants it – for me to direct my focus on that which is right before me and trust that God is silently…
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Spreading the Nativity Virus
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Like the shepherds, Christmas invites all to ‘go and announce the Good News’. Its time to spread the ‘Nativity Virus’
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The next piece of the puzzle
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People came to John the Baptist because they felt something was wrong in their life. Some pieces of the puzzle were missing, the picture was fuzzy, the boundaries were not well defined.