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Burning Bridges

contributed by pslpicker, a Celebrate the Journey attender

In my life I’ve been many places and done many things. I like to think I’ve had a good life, but the truth is I’ve lived most of it serving myself. I go from one thing to the next as it catches my interest. Then for whatever reason [...]

Chew on This

Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead, or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we [...]

Isaiah predicts Jesus dying for our sins

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and [...]

What is so important about resurrection anyway?

The fact that Jesus died for our sins to make us right with God is awesome. That alone is wonderful. What is even more awesome, is that He was ressurected, or came back to life. Jesus defeated death. He proved once and for all that He is God. Death no longer [...]

Chew on this

Insanity: doing something the same way over and over again, but expecting different results.
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got”

What is so good about Good Friday?

Many people have asked “what is so good about Friday anyway?  Jesus died, didn’t he?  Why is that so good?”
The answer is that Jesus was supposed to die, He needed to die to become our Saviour.
Back in Old Testament times, before Jesus came around, you had to bring your sacrifices to a priest who would [...]

Chew on this…

submitted by Wendy, a C the J attender, from an e-mail she received
When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
Concentrate on this sentence:
The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.

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Finding Inner Peace

submitted by: plspicker, a C the J attender

Beware of the things you laugh at. Sometimes people do things that seem very strange. I remember when I heard my sister was going to pay some lady to teach her how to breathe. I laughed at the idea. After all, I’d been breathing for 42 years and [...]