Buying a home can be stressful, yet exciting! This was, again, evident, as I listened to a Kelly Minter pod cast (one of her Cultivate episodes) the other day; in that episode, she told a story about her aunt and uncle moving into town… Continue Reading “Internal Walk-Through”
Category: LifeTags: Adversary, Agreement, All, Authority, Bent Knees in Submission, Blessings, Broken, Chaos, Corrupt, Crooked, Deceives, Desert, Destroy, Deviate, Distort, Distracted, Division, Evil, Exposed to the Enemy, Fight, Focus, Give Place, God's Favor, Grace, Greed, Guard, Hate, Heart, Hidden Things, Ignore His Voice, Immodest, Impure, Lying, Mind, Money, Opposer of God, Pride, Purpose, Respect, Sacrifice, Seduced, Self-Control, Selfishness, Serve, Shame, Sin, Stained, Submission, Thankfulness, Throne, Throw Down, Turn Away, Unforgiveness, Walk-Through, Word of God
I love this sweatshirt of my daughter’s! It’s amazing how many compliments she’s received when wearing it! You can see people read it, then re-read it! Their heads kind of tilt to the side, like a dog, when he’s trying to figure out what’s… Continue Reading “Service with Kindness”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Actions, Change our Minds, Cruelty, Despise, Disobedience, Disrespect, Give Credit Where Credit was Due, God's Character, God's Leading, God's Way, Harsh Tones, Hate, Heart, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Met Physical Needs, Mind, Obedience, Our Way, Patience, Purpose, Purposeful, Repentance, Respect, Restraint, Selfishness, Service, Spirit of God, Spirit-Produced, Useful, Walk in His Ways, Words
Posted on January 30, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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“If you do well, will you not be accepted?…” Genesis 4:7a NKJV Have you ever looked at what you’ve done and felt like you didn’t measure up? Truth is, we all have, ’cause truth is, we all don’t measure up…to God’s standards. Thank the… Continue Reading “What or Whom Do We Fear?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Accept Jesus as Our Sin Sacrifice, Acceptance, Accepted, Afraid, Amazing Faith, Believe a Lie, Bridged the Gap, Burnt Offering, Buy a Lie, Christ, Christ's Sacrifice, Communicate with the LORD, Comparison, Confidence, Confirm, Created, Decision, Die, Don't Measure Up, Drew His Attention To, Emotionally, Excitement, Face to Face with God, Faith, Faith in God, Father, Favored, Fear, Focus, Focused, Forgiven, Forgiveness, From the Heart, Gave Freely, Genesis, Glory, God's Favor, God's Goodness, God's Graciousness, God's Holiness, God's Love, God's Power, God's Presence, God's Standards, Godly Fear, Goodness, Grace, Grain Offering, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Heard, His Ultimate Work, Holiness, Insights, Jesus, Judges, Lie, Life Decisions, Light, Listening, Live, Live in Confidence, Live Out Jesus' Character, Look at Decisions as a Whole, Look at Jesus, LORD, Love, Made Right with God, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Measure Your Worth, Miss, Missed Him, Not Worth Much, Offerings, Others-Focused, Physically, Pleased, Prepares, Pride, Proves Your Worth, Receive the Father's Forgiveness, Reply, Respect, Respected God, Respond, Right, Right Decisions, See Me, See My Face, Separated, Serve God, Served Well, Shared, Show, Show and Tell, Show Thankfulness to God, Showcases God, Shown, Spirit of God, Spiritually, Tell, Thank, Thankfulness to the LORD, Thoughts, Told, Truth, Unforgiveable, Unholy Actions, Value, Vantage Point, Weight, Weren't Commanded, Whole Truth, YHWH, Your Actions
Posted on January 18, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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I looked up in the sky as I drove out of the school parking lot one morning this past week. It was beautiful, filled with light blues and variegated pinks. Sugary stretched clouds were pulled across the sky. It was the most perfect cotton… Continue Reading “Wonder–Going Up?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Accomplishes His Will, Active, Addition, Angel of the LORD, Aroma, Ascended, Ascended in the Flame, Bowing Down, Burn, Burnt Offering, Can No Longer See Him, Can't Do Anything, Can't Move, Child, Clouds, Communicate, Communicate Our Dedication to God, Communicate with the LORD, Communicates with Us, Communicating, Consumed, David Copperfield, Did, Doing Nothing, Doing the Action, Exchange, Extraordinary, Faces Down, Fell on the Ground, Fell on Their Faces, Fire, Flame, Flame/Smoke, Focus, Goat, God Showing Himself, God's Hand at Work, God's Presence, Goes up in a Flame, Goes up in the Air, Going Up, Grain Offering, Handing it Over, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Hear God More Clearly, Hebrew, Immobile Gods, Jaw-Dropping, Leviticus, Lift Their Faces, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Not a One-Way Street, Not Coming On, Offer, Offer a Goat, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, One-Sided, Performed, Performing, Pleasing, Prepare, Preparing, Present, Razor, Relationships, Respect, Respected God, Responding, See Him, Seen God, Service to God, Shall Come, Show, Sky, Smoke, Soothing, Submit to God, The LORD God, To Go Up, To the LORD, Watching, Welcoming His Presence, Went Up, What He Can Do, Where is God, Wonder, Wonder-Working God, Wondrous, Works on Our Behalf
Posted on December 12, 2020
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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When you wonder about something, your mind tends to drift through various possibilities, and it is, sometimes, hard to wrap your mind around. Without the Spirit of God’s help, we can’t be sure of any of the possibilities. All we know is we crave… Continue Reading “Wonder–Too Good to Stop There”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Adoption, Angel, Angel of the LORD, Ashtoreths, Awe, Awesome, Baal, Barren, Beautiful, Beauty, Bring Us to God, Canaanite Gods and Goddesses, Crave God, Crave Knowledge, Crave More, Creation, Creative, Creator, Deliver, Deliverance, Did Evil in the Sight of the LORD, Encourage, Excitement, Financial, Forget, Friend, Gave Them Over to the Enemy, God Answered, God has Answered, God Heard, God is Good, God is With You, God Listened, God Sees Me, God Shows Himself in a Way That was Clear to See, God Stepped In, God's Ability, God's Power, Godly Fear, Gratitude, Greatly Distressed, He Loves Me, Holy, Holy Child, Incapable of Having Children, Incapable of Producing, Jaw-Dropping, Jesus Christ, Knick of Time, Know God, Leave the One True God, Live Differently, Manoah, Mary, Moving to a New Place, Names of Jesus, Nazirite, New Testament, Old Testament, Once and for All, Place of Need, Pray for One Another, Pregnant, Present Your Bodies as a Living Sacrifice, Reflect, Rescue Us from the Enemy, Respect, Rest, Reverence, Self-Serving, Separated, Serve, Serve God, Son, Son of God, Spend Time in God's Word, Spiritual Worship, Strong, Theophanic Angel, Very Awesome, Wisdom, Wonder, Wonders, Worship, Worship other Gods, You aren't Alone
Written by Guest Writer, Ben SytsmaAssistant Principal/5th Grade FacultyCalvary Schools of Holland Each summer, I attempt to read through at least a few classic books. Many of these wonderful books, I did not have the opportunity to read while in school, so I am… Continue Reading “Dealing with Uncertainty”
Category: LifeTags: Accurate, Admirable, Ask Questions, Become Something More, Blessing, Challenges, Classic Books, Direct Our Affections, Direct Our Desires, Direct Our Loves, Excellent, Expectation, Eye Contact, Flourishing Life, From One Degree of Glory to Another, Give Attention, Give Joy, Good Things, Greet, Greeting, Helpful, Helpful Things, Hope, How We Spend Our Day, Impacting the Person We Become, Joy, Learned Behavior, Love, Lovely, Loving, Noble, Observe, Practice, Praiseworthy, Pray, Prayer, Pure, Receive Joy, Reflect, Reflecting, Reflection, Repeated Actions, Respect, Right, Routine, Routines, See People as Fully People, Share Joy, Sing Songs of Praise, Songs of Praise, Structure, Submission, Submit to God, Thankful, Thing about, Things are Falling Apart, Things We Dwell On, Transformed, Transformed into the Same Image, True, Uncertainty, Virtue, What Is Most Important, What We Love the Most, What You Become, What You Love, Who We are in Christ, Who We Become
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