"I thirst." - John 19:28 By Kassidy Reynolds How often I have suddenly exclaimed, "I'm thirsty!" Life demands water, and without water, we cannot live. But I have never been so thirsty to the same point of desperation as a teenage girl suffering from a terrible car accident whose one request was, "Please, can I just have a drink of water?" One result of major blood...
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In the weeks leading up to the Christmas season, my heart began to swell with child-like joy. I could feel it rising. I began to question, Is this ok? Am I just having an emotional high? In Hidden Christmas, Tim Keller writes that "even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual source of your joy. The thing you love is from him and is lovely because i...
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Psalm 130 A Song of Ascents.Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentiveto the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,O Lord, who could stand?But with you there is forgiveness,that you may be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lordmore than wa...
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To give knowledge of salvation to His people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. -Luke 1:77-79 This year, perhaps more than ever before, we can collectively identify with the l...
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