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  • When God Says It Is Gone

    Scripture Focus: “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” — Psalm 103:12 I wonder how many sins God has forgiven that we are still trying to serve time for. There are things we have confessed honestly, grieved deeply, and brought to God with no…

  • The Wind in the Branches

    There are some things in life we know are real, even though we’ve never actually seen them. I’ve never seen the wind. I’ve watched towering trees bow beneath its strength, curtains billow through an open window, leaves skitter across the driveway as though they suddenly remembered an appointment somewhere else, and clouds drift across the…

  • Grace That Teaches Us How to Live

    Scripture Focus: Titus 2:11–12 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;” There’s a quiet misunderstanding that sometimes slips into our thinking—that grace is only the doorway into faith, and once…