Meet-halfway Love is kind. It’s generous. It involves compromise. Neither party feels taken advantage of. It’s the sort of love we can wrap our minds around. The problem is this is NOT the love of Christ.
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Michal at the Window: 5 Lessons from a Bitter Woman
If anyone had the right to stare daggers at other people’s happiness, it was Michal. She was caught between two worlds, the Old Kingdom of her father and the New Kingdom of her husband, unsure of who she was or where she belonged.
5 Rotten Cores in the Plastic-Fruit Gospel
I bet in some area of your life, you could spot a fake a mile away. Maybe you’ve come to know and appreciate a certain skincare line and you’re not going back to the drugstore. Maybe you can spot genuine handbag stitching from the finest knockoff. Whatever else we may know well on this earth, let us know the gospel a hundred times better.
Nothing Can Separate Us: Romans 8 Love for a Psalm 44 Season
Are you suffering even though you’ve been faithful to God? Are you dealing with pain and loss and wondering why? Do you long to cry out to God, “Awake! Why are you sleeping O Lord?” as the Psalmist cries?
The honesty of Psalm 44 is comforting. But it’s incomplete. The truth is we have something the Psalmist never had: The rest of the suffering story.
The Dawn: Darkness Could Not Overcome Him
Every prophecy The Word spoke, The Word fulfilled. He is alive! The grave couldn’t hold him. Darkness could not overcome him. His holiness satisfied the wrath of God. He made atonement for my sin and your sin and he walked out of the tomb. He is alive!
The Curtain: 5 Ways a Torn Veil Stitches Us Together
Fight for your nearness with one another. That torn curtain didn’t just grant your access as an individual, but made you part of a mighty kingdom of priests. God can connect us to one another in the season in a supernatural way.