Posts Tagged "hope"

Everything Happens For A Reason?

Posted by on Apr 30, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement | 0 comments

Everything Happens For A Reason?

“How can it be possible that everything happens for a reason?  Some things are too painful!”  Has a hurting friend ever said this?  How did you respond? “In your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” 1 Peter 3:15 As Christians, our hope isn’t based on feelings and...

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Ok, God, I’m Listening

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Blog, Encouragement | 9 comments

Ok, God, I’m Listening

Prayer with a friend stopped short when I received a call from the school secretary saying, “Justin was in an accident during gym class.” Racing for the soccer ball in a one-on-one game against time, my eleven-year old collided heads with another boy. Arriving at the nurse’s office, my son lay flopped on her bench with an icepack to the back of his head, eyes glazed. The doctor said he...

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God’s A Planner

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement, Scripture | 0 comments

God’s A Planner

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 Satan is our disaster-planner, but he’s not the writer of our future.  God is.  Best of all, God is into the details, right down to our cellular level. Consider the word disaster.  An “aster” is a star-shaped structure that forms...

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Beside My Cross

Posted by on Apr 23, 2011 in Blog, Poetry | 6 comments

Beside My Cross

  In truth, be rooted in Easter Love today, light and free as a tree bud, purposed and held together by Divine dwelling in your small, simple swelling. You’re your Branch’s crowning hope-jewel, Heaven’s waving, waiting, merry-making tool. The Easter Seed broke to tell your glory story, singing you to fullness, clothing you in new, death-defying nature, securing all...

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A Word to the Dying

Posted by on Feb 18, 2011 in Blog, Comfort | 0 comments

A Word to the Dying

Cindy Finch Suffering from roller-coaster emotions? I wish I could tell you some sweet little words that would make it better.  But I can’t.  You are on a long, hard journey.  But you are not alone. When you’re reduced to nothing but grit… and even that is diminishing, God promises to hold you in His tender care and stand tough on your behalf.  Watch His light shine brightest in...

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