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Devotional from James 3 “Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.” James 3:5 (NIV) Taming the tongue is one of the hardest callings in the Christian life. In James 3, James speaks to something…
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Learning to discern the will of God rarely happens in a calm, quiet moment. More often, it happens when emotions run high and a decision feels urgent. In John 18, we watch Peter face two of those moments in a single night. In fact, his choices show us exactly why discernment matters so much.…
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DEVOTIONAL READING 1 Kings 3 Read the full chapter: 1 Kings 3:1 to 28 Asking God for wisdom is one of the simplest prayers we can pray, yet it can change the direction of our whole lives. Have you ever faced a decision and thought, “Lord, I don’t know what to do”? You are not…
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Eternal life in Jesus is more than a promise for after we die. It is a relationship with God that begins the moment we believe. In John 17, Jesus prays a heartfelt prayer for His disciples and for us. In that prayer, He shows us what eternal life really is and how to live it.…
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Trusting God’s wisdom is not something that comes naturally to us. We are wired to trust what we can see, measure, and control, yet Proverbs 3 invites us into a very different way of living, one where we set aside our own understanding and rest fully in the Lord’s plans for our lives. This…
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Peace in troubled times feels hard to hold onto when life gets hard. Jesus knew His disciples were about to walk through some of the darkest days of their lives, so before He left them, He sat them down and told them the truth. Not to scare them, but to prepare them. That’s what we…
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Growing through trials is not something any of us signs up for willingly, yet it is exactly where God does some of His deepest work in us. James opens his letter with a truth that feels almost backward to our natural instincts. He tells us to consider it pure joy whenever we face trials of…
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Have you ever felt like you were trying to hold everything together on your own strength? In John 15, Jesus offers us a picture that gently corrects that thinking. He says He is the vine, His Father is the gardener, and we are the branches. And branches were never designed to survive by themselves. To…
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Growing through trials is not something most of us ask for, yet it is exactly what James calls us to embrace. In fact, James opens his letter with a command that sounds almost impossible: consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds. However, this is not a call to fake happiness. Instead,…
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“Do not let your heart be troubled.” Jesus said those words to men who had no idea what was coming. In a few hours, He would be arrested. In a few days, He would be gone from them, at least for a while. And yet, in that upper room, His first concern wasn’t His own…
