Sanctification

Some Rules Are Not Made To Be Broken!

27 April by Karen

Every year in elementary school, we received a gold ruler that had the Golden Rule stamped on it: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” Matthew 7:12 The teacher would always give a brief lesson about why the rulers were important and how breaking the Golden Rule was [...]

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When God Fashions Our Hearts

16 February by Hariette Petersen

When my granddaughter and I squashed Play-doh into a flat blob and cut out the shape of hearts, we left our fingerprints on each heart.  We impressed our index and pinky fingers into the soft clay.  These hearts were just like Haylee wanted them to be.  She wanted different colors.  She pushed her finger clear [...]

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What We Cannot Change

14 November by Hariette Petersen

Yellow, gold, and red leaves whipped across my windshield as I made my way down the highway to my painting class.  Autumn is giving way to winter, I thought as I drove.  I noticed two huge sycamore trees standing side by side like two wooden soldiers in the blustering wind.  Oddly, one tree was brilliant yellow, the other [...]

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Be Killing Sin

27 June by Chris Roberts

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8:13 Grass is persistent and relentless. Time and again grass must be cut to keep it under control, but time and again it grows right back. [...]

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Being Perfected

20 June by Chris Roberts

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:10 Sanctification is the process of being made holy, of shedding sin, of becoming set apart from the world, of being made like Christ. Through sanctification we are being made perfect. So in Hebrews 10:10 we are told [...]

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The Potter’s Clay

6 April by Emily Riley
Potter's Clay

“So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.  Then the word of the LORD came to me:”O house [...]

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