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Wednesday Devotional: Handle the Test and Wait for the Exodus
Even when times are hard, we trust God to provide. That provision may come directly through God and those he sends, or through exodus.
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Jul 17, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: No Heaven or Hell to Put You In
We trust Jesus to be the judge of humans. Our job is to love our neighbors as we endeavor to live a seven-day practical faith.
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Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Listening to the One Voice
To listen to God's voice, we must block out other voices.
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Jul 3, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Seeing but not Seeing
If we don't read the Bible, we won't be able to see what God is trying to show us. We'll make up our own stories about life.
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Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Gratitude in a Cold Airport
Even in difficult times, we can thank God and trust God to get us through.
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Jun 18, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Practicing Non-Transactional Christianity
In our practical faith, we want to be non-transactional, not judging others based on their value, but simply loving them as God does.
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Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Three Wounded Hearts
Cecil describes the hurt that three young men are enduring and how they can avoid bitterness by turning to the healing power of God.
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Jun 5, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: A Single Drop Can Contaminate
One oil drop contaminates a large amount of water. A small sin contaminates our lives. Why worry about others' sins when we're all polluted?
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May 29, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Unified, not Uniform
We may not be of one mind, but we can be of one heart by staying united without being uniform. We must trust God's wisdom and Jesus's vision
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May 22, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Getting Our Hands Dirty
Cecil likes to get his hands dirty while gardening. We're also called to get our hands dirty serving Jesus in our seven-day practical faith.
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May 15, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: The Vine and the Fig Tree
Cecil muses on how the renewed vigor of his dewberry vines maps to our trust in God and a Biblical prophecy of the day when wars will cease.
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May 8, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Jesus, Nothing, and Everything
We learn to trust Jesus when we realize that Jesus is everything to us, a sign that we are deepening our seven-day practical faith.
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May 1, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: God is the Ruler Yet
1 Colossians 1:16-17 The mourners were asked to sing a hymn at my friend's mother's memorial service, a familiar tune of "This is My...
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Apr 24, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Joy in the Morning
Joy is a part of our seven-day practical faith. We rejoice despite circumstances, because joy is derived from the Holy Spirit's presence.
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Apr 17, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Above the Clouds
2 Timothy 2:1,3-4 I remember my first flight on a rainy day. The dark clouds sat heavy over the landscape, and the tarmac was soaked from...
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Apr 10, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Casting Your Cares on God
When we trust God in difficult times, we can cast our cares on the Lord and receive the benefits of his tenderness and providence.
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Apr 3, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotion: Don't Do That
We trust God and the Ten Commandments to instruct on how to live. Sometimes the instruction is "Don't do that!"
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Mar 27, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: His Greatest Painting
We can trust God when we go wrong because of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. This post discusses Rembrandt's painting of Jesus's story.
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Mar 13, 20243 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: From Hurt to Healing
"If you are hurt in church, you heal in church." These are wise, hopeful words as we trust God to heal us through his church.
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Mar 6, 20242 min read
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Wednesday Devotional: Remembering that Jesus Loves Me
John 15:9,13 I heard the sweetest little boy sing "Jesus Loves Me" on a social media video post. At first, I couldn't make out what he...
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Feb 28, 20242 min read
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