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The Real Meaning Of Hope
What is the real meaning of hope? Being people of hope in the middle of darkness The definition of hope according to the dictionary is a “feeling of expectation and desire for aparticular thing to happen” or “a feeling of trust”. One of the most famous quotes on hope from the movie Shawshank Redemption is from Red, a man that has been in prison a long time, not knowing if it will be for life. He says “Hope is a dangerous thing, my friend, it can kill a man…” but also that “Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things. And good things never die.” I’ve heard…
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Ecclesiastes 3 – Everything Has Its Time
Ecclesiastes 3 tells us that everything has its season. Lessons From The Garden For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the garden – cleaning, weeding,cutting the grass, planting, and watering. As I’ve been diving into all these different tasks withthe goal to have a garden that is both beautiful and functional this summer, I’ve had a coupleof revelations that I wanted to share with you all. How important it is to see the big picture. The first step to do when it’s time to tend to the garden in the spring, at least up here in the north where we have snowy and…
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Created For A Purpose – Part 1
This is part 1 of a two part series of blog posts about being created for a purpose. What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose for my own life? What should I do with my life? Do I have a special task that God has given me? Here we have some of the biggest questions of our lives, questions I believe most of us have thought about, if not all of us. I think the reason we think about these things is that yes, we are created to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Our lives are meant to be connected to a bigger purpose –…
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Jesus Spent Time With The Father – Spending Time With God
Today we will take a look at some ways we can spend time with God by looking at the life ofone of the influential men that has walked on this earth. A man that had all the reasons tosay that He is too busy, but He didn’t. We are of course talking about Jesus himself. Simplyput: if Jesus spent time with the Father, we need to. There is a saying that time is the money of our time, the thing we feel like we don’t haveenough of, the thing we struggle to manage and feel like it’s a big sacrifice for us to give upany of. We want to use…
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart”
Why is it hard and what about trusting people? “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” Here we have maybe one of the most well known and quoted Bible verses. It encourages us to trust in God, not sometimes or when it feels good, but with all our hearts. It also calls us to a life of not trusting only in what makes sense, what we can figure out with our own understanding, but to anchor our heart to God and trust Him to direct our paths. In the Bible we can clearly see that God is someone we can trust. He promises big things, that maybe in the…
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Lessons from 5 women in The Bible
The Bible is full of amazing people we can learn different things from and today we will take a look at 5 women in The Bible and lessons we can learn from them – lessons we can apply in our lives today. Let’s dive in! Jochebed, the mother of Moses Moses is one of the main people in the Bible, but his life could have ended quickly. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt was scared that the Israelites would become too many and powerful and ordered for all male Hebrew babies to be killed. Moses’ mother however decides to hide him for 3 months and later she places him in a…
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Why was Jesus born in Bethlehem?
Bethlehem is today a city with a population of approximately 30 000 citizens located on the West Bank. It’s a place that fills up each Christmas season with people wanting to be in this historical place for this time, to go and see where Jesus was born. Let’s take a look at this city and why Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The words of prophet Micah So why was Jesus born in Betlehem? Around 700 years before Jesus was born there was a prophet named Micah that was active in Judah. He prophesied the words about the birth of Jesus and he also mentioned the location. He said the ruler…
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In times of thanksgiving – Bible verses on thankfulness
The Bible is full of tools and wisdom for different seasons in life and today we will take a look at some Bible verses on thankfulness. We are in the middle of holiday season, Thanksgiving and very soon Christmas is also at the door. It’s a time of preparation and seeing family and friends, which can be both something to look forward to and something we are dreading in different ways, a time of great joy or maybe a time of sadness or stress. No matter what this time looks like for us, it’s also a time where we can take a moment to slow down and reflect over the…
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The beauty in the mundane – how to enjoy life every day.
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How to get out of a rut – a Biblical perspective.
We have all been there: the motivation is low, we feel tired and we know it’s time to get back into things. We are in a rut, we feel stuck. We struggle to do it because it IS hard, we are by nature leaning more towards comfort than working hard. Hopefully this short read will help you if you are in a need of a pick me up! Waking up Waking up is hard sometimes, but very much necessary. Take a day and choose it to be your wake up day, get a good morning routine in, spend a good amount of time in the Word, go for a walk,…
