He is Risen!

ByEmily April 4, 2021November 21, 2023

Anxiety | Freedom | Love | Pain | Prayer | Trauma
Facing Fears from COVID-19
ByEmily March 21, 2020November 21, 2023
Over the last two months our perception of COVID-19 has been constantly changing, and with it, our internal and external reactions. When mostly isolated in China, it was something foreign, distant, and therefore not very threatening. But as its territory gradually started to expand, infecting people of our nationality, then appearing on our soil, then…
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Freedom | Love | Prayer
Would God Tempt Us? (The Perfect Prayer, Part 4)
ByEmily June 13, 2016November 21, 2023
When offering the prototypical prayer that represented our relationship with God, Jesus included an interesting clause: “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matthew 6:13a). Temptation is what draws people toward sin, toward selfishness. So why would the Lord’s prayer link the Father with temptation? We need to first think…
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Anxiety | Freedom | Glory | Prayer | Serving
When Things Go Wrong
ByEmily May 7, 2018November 21, 2023
The steep road was the kind where those who get car sick (me) have to avoid looking out the window. We were not quite sure of our exact destination (attempts to contact a local pastor had not yet been successful) as we headed up a mountain in the center of the island of Puerto Rico,…
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Kingdom of Heaven | Love | The Beatitudes
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
ByEmily October 27, 2014November 21, 2023
I just read in the news that between 1990 and 2014 the percentage of people going hungry in this world has dropped from 18.7% of the total population to 11.3%. An incredible global effort has been reaching out to those who hunger and thirst, because of the fundamental nature of these needs. While this pattern…
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Kingdom of Heaven | Pain | Serving
Humble Leadership (Part 2)
ByEmily August 12, 2019November 21, 2023
(To read the intro, click Humble Leadership, Part 1) When we think of influential people, rarely do we get a picture of someone asking for help. From the perspective of the audience, a powerful speaker may seem to have everything under control, to be fully in charge, and to be confident that what he or…
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Freedom | Love | Pain
Feel Free to Grieve
ByEmily March 27, 2018November 21, 2023
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2 Comments

Denise Beckhart says:
April 4, 2021 at 1:54 pm
He is risen indeed!
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1. Emily says:
  April 5, 2021 at 2:48 pm
  I hope you had a blessed Easter, Denise!
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