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It's Simple. Right?
There's a quote in the film, God's Not Dead: "It's not easy, but it's simple." The "it," if I remember correctly, refers to doing the...
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nikiflorica
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Thankful-Coloured Glasses
Christianity asks us to do a really hard thing when it comes to how we feel about ourselves. On one hand, we need to be brutally honest....
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Jul 5, 20212 min read
Say Yes.
I talked last week about the human will. Well, I'm still talking about it. In Luke 18, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. It was near the end of...
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Jun 29, 20212 min read
A More Excellent Way
Good ol' I Corinthians 13. Short and sweet and sharp as a dagger. Love is patient, love is kind, love doesn't envy, think highly of...
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Jun 22, 20213 min read
Will We or Will We Not
When you stop to count them, a TON of spiritual traits boil down to good ol' fashioned acts of will. Prayerfulness. Forgiveness....
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Feb 10, 20212 min read
Jesus Laughed.
I can happily say that my new favourite show is officially The Chosen—not only marked by quality acting, sweet costumes, killer...
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Jan 21, 20212 min read
The Squirrel Mentality (and Why We Need It)
Squirrels get a bad rap. I know from experience—watching my family's ongoing bird-feeder vs. squirrel feud of feuds—but I can't help...
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Jan 18, 20213 min read
It's Not All Your Brain's Fault
I don't abide by everything in my psychology course, but here's a fun fact (at least as I understand it): between ages 15 and 25, the...
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nikiflorica
Dec 30, 20203 min read
Here's What I've Learned About Expectations
I think it's fairly safe to say that we've all had expectations drenched in a cold wave of reality. Human beings are creative. We're...
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nikiflorica
Nov 3, 20203 min read
NaNoWriMo and Me
It's National Novel Writing Month, and I'm a roiling blend of nerves and excitement and dreams of a finished product by the end of one...
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Oct 26, 20203 min read
Strength and Endurance . . . But Mostly Endurance
One of my favourite verses in the New Testament is: "The one who endures to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:14) Not because it's...
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Sep 14, 20203 min read
"Going Nowhere" & the Real Adventure
While sifting through blog ideas this morning, I came across one line in my daily devotion and knew I had found my Monday Musing....
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Jun 1, 20202 min read
Sealed in His Name
There is something so nostalgic about snail mail. A couple days ago, I received a card in the mail from a friend, and it just infused my...
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nikiflorica
May 28, 20202 min read
For Lack of Spare Minutes
When time slows down, it gives us a breath to slow down with it and savour our circumstances. To look at the little things and see what...
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nikiflorica
May 26, 20202 min read
Wait for It, Wait for It . . .
"Waiting" carries so many connotations—tension, expectation, worry, time, patience, impatience, hope, fear—but if we're being completely...
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nikiflorica
May 18, 20203 min read
Tattered Scraps of Truth
Jesus ... can take the tattered scraps of truth we brought to that flopped conversation, and use them to plant a seed in that person ...
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nikiflorica
May 14, 20202 min read
From Failure Vortex to Victory
Failure is one of the most unpleasant phenomenons to grip our world since Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden. Whether magnanimous...
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nikiflorica
May 12, 20202 min read
One Step, One Decision, One Challenge at a Time
When we travel, we tend to plan. That's just good old-fashioned thinking ahead. We may not know exactly what each leg of the journey will...
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nikiflorica
May 4, 20202 min read
When "Humble" Goes Too Far
The book of Numbers tells us that Moses was extremely humble, "more humble than any other person on earth in his time" (Num. 12:3) in his...
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Apr 28, 20202 min read
Shout It, Sing It, Weep It If You Have To
It's one thing to be convicted and motivated by a devotion. It's quite another to seize that conviction and follow through when the...
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