Personal Ponderings

Personal Ponderings

New Life

Something that has been on my heart recently is redemption and renewal through the Holy Spirit. Can someone who seems so lost and broken be renewed? Can someone who caused so much pain and grief be redeemed? The answer in God’s Word is YES AND AMEN! There is no one who is beyond God’s mercy and grace. Our redemption is through the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross when He died for our

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Boundless Faith

Hello friends! Recently I’ve been reading in the book of Matthew. It’s really so refreshing to just soak in the teachings of Jesus while He was here on earth. There were so many powerful parables and miracles during His ministry, but one in particular that strikes me is the faith of the Roman official in Matthew 8. When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying

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Creator and Redeemer

When you look up to the sky at night, just when the sun is starting to descend below the horizon, and you see all the gorgeous colors of a sunset… do you ever think about how the sky does that? Is it just a random assortment of sun beams randomly hitting molecules across different atmospheric levels at random angles and hitting our retinas at just the right moment? Okay, so I’m not a scientist, but

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Always Faithful

I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for

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The Words to Speak

Last night, I was trying to decide what I wanted to read. As I was randomly flipping through my Bible (we’ve all been there, right?), I came across Jeremiah. I’ve been wanting to dig more into the Old Testament, so I decided to start with Jeremiah chapter 1. God’s got some good messages in this chapter, folks! It starts off by letting us know the time Jeremiah was living in and who the kings were

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