Sometimes, it’s easy for me to understand and accept that Jesus did all those amazing miracles. I mean, He was God’s Son after all. But then sometimes, I wonder if He had a certain formula for doing everything perfectly and powerfully. Did He spend just enough time with His Father? Did He study the scriptures […]
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Taking It All In | The Goodness of God’s Character How do we truly appreciate the value in a moment, a day, a season? How do we take it all in? Introduction Yes…sometimes we must pause and reflect or we will miss it completely. Yes…we are to dive wholeheartedly into the life God has for
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Choosing To Pause and Celebrate The Little Things I listened to a sermon this morning about the importance of celebrating! He spoke about God instructing the Israelites to gather stones out of the Jordan River that He miraculously stopped from flowing and to set them up as a memorial of what God had done. God
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I’m just going to caveat this upfront with a typical Sunday school answer. Jesus is my favorite Bible character. There I said. Second to Jesus is a guy named Nehemiah. There’s an entire book about the guy! The book of Nehemiah is an amazing story of how Nehemiah found adventure in freedom while relying on
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Freedom, adventure, authenticity and experience form The Rugged Face. We’ve written extensively on freedom and adventure, but not so much on authenticity? Why is that? I think the reason is because allowing people to see who we really are is a really scare thought. It’s terrifying to allow people to see our true self. All
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My wife, Celeste and I, have been married for almost 11 years. It’s been a beautiful mixture of joy, pain, sorrow, laughter, forgiveness, loss, gain and so many other feelings and emotions. Our marriage has experienced extremely high highs and exasperating lows that have left us powerless. From the joy of July 19th, 2013 to
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One of the core values of our family is the word adventure. Our lives revolve around this term. We’re the types of people that really despise the normal, Christian, American life. Rather than focus on the accumulation of stuff like cars, toys, and big houses, we prefer to accumulate experiences. These are the kinds of
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The Beauty of Matthew 5:14: City on a Hill We just moved back to Texas from Colorado. And while it has been a good move, and a blessing to be back near family, we intensely miss our mountains. One of my favorite views up there was actually seen at night. Just a sliver of the
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Voice of God: Uncovering His Voice in Nature Have you ever sat out in the middle of nature and just listened to all of the unique sounds there are to hear? It’s quite amazing! I’m not the best at always knowing what exactly I’m hearing, but I just love the music that nature brings when
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I Once Was Blind, But Now I See “All I know is that I was blind and now I can see for the first time in my life!” John 9:25b I was reading this story a few days ago about the man who was born blind. Jesus healed a man by smearing mud all over
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