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Flesh or Spirit?
I recently heard this question on a podcast, and it has stayed with me. We know Jesus said to his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane, ” The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). But why is that? The woman on the podcast went on to answer her own question:…
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Luke 13:22-30 – The Last
“He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. And someone said to him, ‘Lord, will those who are saved be few?’ And he said to them, ‘Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once…
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Word of the Year 2025
Two weeks and one snow storm into the new year, I figured it was time to write about my word for 2025. This one actually came to me relatively quickly when I began thinking about it last year. Starting a new job & having one child start pre-k in “big girl school” and one child…
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Surrender: My One Word from 2024
As the year winds down, I’ve been doing some reflecting. One thing I’ve been thinking about is my word from this year. If you’re not familiar with that idea, you can read my post about it here. This past year, the Lord laid the word surrender on my heart, along with Matthew 16:24: “Then Jesus…
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The Forgotten Part of the Easter Story
I know what you’re probably thinking. “Easter was over a month ago. Why this post now?” Well, it was 40 days ago, to be exact, and 40 days after Jesus rose from the dead, something important happened that doesn’t get a lot of air time when we summarize the gospel. If I asked you to…
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Salvation through the Red Sea
The Exodus story, when God parts the sea and the Israelites cross though on dry ground, is a pretty familiar story for most of us. At the end of the story, in chapter 15, Moses and the people sing a song to the Lord. They’ve just experienced this powerful deliverance, so singing a song of…
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God WILL Deliver
This semester in our women’s Bible study at my church we are studying the book of Exodus, and I have had the privilege of teaching a few of these lessons. What I want to share today comes from Exodus 6, after Moses has encountered God in the burning bush, been commissioned, and sent back to…
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The Fruit of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away…
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Community for the New Year
Happy New Year! January is a time when many people (myself included) like to reevaluate and set goals for themselves. But too often (and this is probably a product of our Western culture) we can be very individualistic in this process. We ask questions like, what do I want out of this new year? What…
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Word of the Year 2024
This will be my 10th year of having a word for the year, rather than resolutions. I heard about this idea of choosing a word to focus on for the next year during my first year living as a missionary in Honduras, and it has since become an annual practice. If you are not familiar with…
Alexa Bailey 