Living With Purpose: Week 5

Living With Purpose: Week 5

Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings Week 3: Seasons to Stop Week 4: Seasons of Uncertainty And now for Week 5: Seasons When You Feel Shattered   As a teenage girl I knew what it felt like to feel shattered. On the first day of school, a boy who I really liked, asked me to go to the biggest event of the school year. One day after lunch, he asked if we could talk. Right there in the middle of the lunch room he ripped out my heart and told me we would have more fun with

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Living With Purpose: Week 4

Welcome to the series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed the other posts in this series, you can find them here: Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings Week 3: Seasons to Stop And now for WEEK 4: Seasons of Uncertainty   Some people just seem to know the direction for their life. For me, it is a constant learning curve. Just when I think I have it figured out, God seems to redirect me a different way. In some ways it’s exciting and other ways it brings frustration and a constant string of questions

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Living With Purpose: Week 3

Welcome to the series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed the other posts in this series, you can find them here: Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings And now for Week 3: Seasons of Surrender What is purpose? Purpose is knowing why we do what we do. It’s believing there is value in obeying the voice of God. It’s knowing that when God calls us to do something, He will give us what we need to accomplish it. But what about those times in life when it’s not so easy to obey? What about

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Living With Purpose – Week 2

Welcome to the new series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed last week’s post you can find it in the link below. Living With Purpose – Week 1: Silent Seasons And now for Week 2! Living With Purpose – Week 2: Sweet Seasons of Blessing Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1:17 (ESV) Have you ever had a season in your life when things actually worked out right? Maybe it was a dream vacation,

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Living With Purpose: Week 1

Happy New Year! In this brand new series “Living With Purpose in Every Season” we will: *Discover what it looks like to walk daily in the unknowns of life with confidence in your calling even if your calling isn’t exactly clear. *Discover how to live intentionally in every season even when it feels like things aren’t quite working out the way you planned. *Discover the way God uses different seasons to draw you closer to Him. *Uncover the truth about yourself when seasons change. *Find purpose when you feel lost or uncertain. *Be encouraged as you gain a fresh understanding

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Loneliness, Loss, and Love

Life has a way of making us think about what really matters most. As we gathered yesterday to practice for our annual Christmas concert, there was another gathering going on not far from us. A group, who had lost someone they loved dearly, gathered to remember their loved one. The chair once filled with life and love, now sits as a reminder of loss. If there’s an empty spot in your life, and you are feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the hype of the holidays, take time to be comforted with these thoughts about the reason for the season:

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