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Soul-Thirst and Living Water

admin — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:42:25 +0000

I’m a girl who panics when I don’t have a water bottle with me. I want to always know that I can grab a drink if I feel a little parched. Imagining a village without access to clean drinking water shatters my heart and makes me want to run with a shovel and start well-digging myself. So when I think of a woman meeting Jesus at a well, there for a jug of water after walking through desert-heat in the mid-day sun, my throat feels a little dry in sympathetic longing. I’m thinking if I were her, I might’ve been a little impatient when he interrupted my vital task to ask for a drink for himself – especially when I realized he was a Jew, and Jews don’t talk to my kind of people. Jesus didn’t worry about social restrictions, though. He used that cup-of-water-request as a conversation starter, and then offered the hesitant woman living water… telling her if she drank it, she would “never thirst again.” “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend […]

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Above the Commotion

Angela Sackett — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 06:34:45 +0000

It’s funny how we can live near someone and not really know the full sweetness of friendship until we are far away. It was that way with my friend Stephanie. Her dad is a pastor whom our family greatly respects, and he still challenges us with His passion for scripture and its application in our daily life. But it wasn’t until our family moved to another state that our friendship really blossomed, and I count Stephanie as one of my heart-friends. So when she wrote these thoughts for you, friend… I couldn’t wait to share them with you. They speak so much to a struggle we all have, if we’re honest. They call each of us to rise above the commotion of everyday life… for something so much more. From Stephanie: We are selective by nature. Facebook friends with irrelevant or bothersome posts get unfollowed. The especially appealing images are re-pinned on Pinterest. Magazines are purchased based on a headline’s promise. We innately filter life and choose what we spend our time on. This is good. We are always looking for the best information, funniest videos, most insightful articles— discoveries meant to increase our happiness or improve how we experience […]

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Prayer Changes Everything

Angela Sackett — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 09:23:52 +0000

Prayer changes everything. I’ve said this with my mouth for years, but it’s finally beginning to sink into my heart. Recently, I’ve had an ongoing interaction with a fellow believer that’s grating on me. We have a difference in opinion about something, and with all my being, I believe that I’m biblically “in the right” about the issue. It’s chafed against me, causing “righteous indignation,” as the person’s way of dealing with the issue has, I believe, caused others to go astray. Somewhat embarrassed, I can tell you that my go-to-tendency is to get irritated, to talk when I can of my irritation, and to go round-and-round constructing well-crafted reprimands to say to her, either for real, or in my head. Thankfully, I have a small group of women I’m in contact with who speak the truth in love, and one of the things I’ve heard from them is to “let it go.” They don’t mean to forego confronting an important issue, but rather, to commit it to prayer and be willing to wait for guidance on what to say, and when to say it. But how do I do that? Especially when I’m right? How do I wait patiently […]

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