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Breaking Up with Fear
There are so many directions to go when talking about fear because it is something we all deal with in our lives. We all deal with both rational and irrational fears and sometimes it is hard to separate the two in our minds. And then we also have smaller fears in our day to day…
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The Strength of Hannah
Hannah didn’t distance herself from the Lord or become angry that the Lord would not give her what she wanted. Instead, Hannah purposefully went to the temple to pray.
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The Strength of Ruth
The story of Ruth in the Bible gives us a good example of strength in multiple senses of the word…
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The Strength of Mary
Have you ever felt like the cards have been stacked against you? Have you ever felt like you were alone? Take Mary, the young woman who was engaged to a respectable, highly esteemed man, for example. It can be safely assumed that she was well-liked in her community. I can just hear the older church…
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Why Bold, Strong, & Free?
I spent a lot of my life being the very opposite of bold, strong, and free. I’ve been timid and shy when I should’ve spoken up or taken a leap of faith. I’ve taken the easy way out when I should’ve embraced Christ’s strength in my weakness. Instead of being free, I’ve felt imprisoned by…
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A Perfect Trio of Words
Bold: fearless before danger; showing or requiring a fearless daring spirit. Strong: having or marked by great physical strength; having moral or intellectual power Free: having a scope not restricted by qualification; not obstructed, restricted, or impeded When we first talked about what we wanted to call this blog and decided on the name…
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Bold, Strong, & Free
When I first began to brainstorm what bold, strong, & free means to me. I could not isolate the three words on their own. They overlapped with one another. Each word is defined in the other word. Furthermore, I thought of a woman from my past, whose life is an inspiration of what it means…