How many of us wished we could’ve pulled off a Rip van Winkel and slept through 2020? When 2021 approached and the Christmas gifts were opened and the fruitcake eaten, then the emojis started. Push 2020 off the screen. Burn 2020. I’m sure there was a poop emoji somewhere. We awoke on January 1, 2021,
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Day 5: Seeking God: Returning to Your First Love
This lesson application and journaling prompt is based on the devotional Seek First: How to Receive God’s Best for Your Life. You can read the other lessons on Day 2, Day 3, or Day 4 if you missed them. Ah, love. Love is the most powerful feeling in the universe. Some may argue that it’s
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Day 4: When Dreams Become Burdens: What are God’s Promises to Us?
This lesson application and journaling prompt is based on the devotional Seeking God: How to Receive God’s Best for Your Life. You can also review day 2 and day 3 if you missed them. I skipped church one Sunday morning and mollified my conscience by watching a tv preacher. The pastor on one particular segment
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Day 3: Why God doesn’t take shortcuts
This is a breakout lesson based on the devotional Seeking God: How to Receive God’s Best for Your Life. Did you miss day 2’s lesson and journaling prompt? Read it here. As I wound my way through unfamiliar streets in Washington, DC, my Google Maps audio piped up: “Alternate route available. Save 3 minutes.” Anything
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Day 2: What did you expect following Jesus would be like?
This is an application lesson based on the devotional Seeking God: How to Receive God’s Best for Your Life. Please read it first, then jump back here to read the lesson and journaling prompt. “Jesus Loves Me” was the first hymn we learned as children. If you came to the Lord as an adult, “Amazing
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Seeking God: How to Receive God’s Best for Your Life
Today: Read devotional below Tomorrow through Friday: Come back for break-out lessons based on today’s devotional plus a guided journaling prompt Epaphras* sat at an ink-stained desk painting Chinese characters onto paper. Words about Jesus. Heaps of paper stacked like wheat press against an enamel percolator, an overturned wash basin and a neatly folded towel.