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Room to Breathe

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Sarah

Have you ever walked into a room or a situation and felt like you suddenly had room to breathe?  Perhaps you’ve experienced the feeling of being led into wide open spaces as your burdens were taken from you, like when … Continue reading →

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Constant Conversation

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Sarah

While riding the F subway home last night, I read the evening devotional from Charles Spurgeon’s classic devotional Morning and Evening. One of my dear friends, Beth, sent it to me a few years ago, and I recently downloaded it … Continue reading →

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Jonah in October

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Sarah

Are you up for it? Now that it’s October, it’s time to start reading another book of the Bible.  In August I read Romans and September’s book of the month was Galatians.  Now that October is here, I’m diving into … Continue reading →

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Galatians

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Sarah

Have you ever spent a month reading and re-reading one book of the Bible? Ten years ago one of my girlfriends introduced me to the idea with what she called “the Romans Challenge”.  As she explained it to me, the … Continue reading →

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Sticky, part 4

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Sarah

Sigh.. more from Romans (my current “happy place”).  Excerpts from Romans 9 (The Message): “I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.  In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!” they’re calling … Continue reading →

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Sticky, part 3

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Sarah

More from Romans 8 (The Message): God knew what he was doing from the very beginning.  He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son.  … Continue reading →

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Sticky, part 2

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Sarah

Some sticky words from Romans 8 (The Message): With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved.  Those who enter into Christ’s being-there-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.  A new power … Continue reading →

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Sticky

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Sarah

So… what’s “sticking” to me as I read and reread Romans?  Here’s something “sticky” from Romans 1.18-23, 28-32: But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud … Continue reading →

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