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Everyday Jesus

5 Ways to Starve the Vanity Monster

10.19.2012

It’s no wonder they call it a vanity mirror. Does a mirror every do more for me than make me want to look more, change more, be a little more vain?  Since day one, Jesus has been working away inside of me to help me care less about the outside of me.  I really do [...]

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When it Feels Hard to be a Christian

10.10.2012

“It’s hard to be a Christian.”  He says it matter of fact-ly as he colors in pastels. “Why’s that?” “Because it’s so easy to be bad.”   “Oh sweet boy, you know it’s only people that know this one fact–that it’s so easy to be bad—it’s only those people that have hope at being a [...]

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And What If You Got Just What You’d Been Wanting

09.12.2012

I’ve always wondered at those guys there in that boat.  They’d known the sea all their lives, smelled like fish from head to toe.  Fishing was life, fishing made their lives and there was no way to live without fish. At the end of long days, I can see Simon there at the end of [...]

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How to Live a Longer Life

08.22.2012

My boy sees the younger girls finally happy and distracted and he asks if he can have his turn and sit in my lap while we read.  I make it through a few pages and he slides down, says he’ll just sit next to me.  And he can feel what I know-that his legs are [...]

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How to Make Everything Easy Today

05.02.2012

I’ve seen that button up in the store, that ‘easy’ button.  And it’s funny and clever ’cause all of us know that this life is anything but easy.  Jason and I talk about it-how this season can feel like war some days, how we’re always ‘on duty,’ never really feeling like we can rest. Jesus [...]

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A Small Thing: Pray for One

04.12.2012

The numbers can get to you sometimes. The 6938 people groups still considered unreached by the gospel which means at least 2,878,502,000 individuals have never even had a chance to reject or accept Christ. The 3.5 million people that die every year from a water related disease. The 1.8 billion people that lack safe drinking water. [...]

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The Cross…where Victory and Suffering Meet

04.09.2012

Our internet has been down since a storm last Thursday and my time here at Burning Bushes has been given to other tasks.  But, I’m thinking of this post from three years ago as we celebrate the Resurrection.  To date, it’s still the most popular one I’ve ever posted…   Jesus was both a Lion [...]

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The Best Beauty Treatment

01.20.2012

The lights are bright above that big mirror and I look up, face wet with the morning’s water and soap.  And I can see my eyes changing, my skin changing, this whole face of mine changing.  I see the lines from the worn out days appearing and can’t help but feel surprised that this body [...]

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When All You See is Ugly

11.02.2011

I read updates on two moms I know battling cancer, read about my friend from high school now blind and disabled from an accident five years ago, and stumble through the daily invasions of pride and worry, the disabling affects of comparison and fear, and I wonder at all life’s ugliness. Mom’s here and gives [...]

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Why You Should Open Your Eyes Today

10.28.2011

When I think about Jesus, I think about His teaching, His healing, His provision, His service. I rarely think about His eyesight. But the ‘Gospels mention Jesus looking intently at people about forty times.’ ‘When he saw the crowds…’ Matthew 9:36 ‘When Jesus saw his mother there,…’  John 19:26-27 I am too often like the [...]

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