40 Day Spiritual Journey

Day 15 – What If You’re Not Good Enough?

Read Romans 3:23-25 Reflect Good people go to heaven. That seems to be the prevailing view, doesn’t it? Just live a good life, try not to commit a terrible crime, and hopefully God will be merciful and you will get into heaven. Or maybe you want to believe that pretty much everyone makes it to […]

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Day 13 – You Don't Deserve It

Read John 13 Reflect Have you ever been shown love when you felt so undeserving? Or perhaps the opposite, YOU helped someone in need that you felt really didn’t deserve it? In John 13 we witness Jesus’ humble himself and serve His disciples.   Jesus is the Son of God,  yet he humbles Himself as a

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Day 12 – If You Plan This Much For A Vacation….

Read 2 Timothy 4:5 Reflect I love summer break. Our family spends a good amount of  time planning our vacation. We plan the time off work. We plan our adventures. We plan our packing. We make sure the cars are in good shape and that our almost-ancient family boat is running. We save up months

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Day 11 – When What You Think and Feel Don’t Matter

Read 2 Timothy 4:2-5 Reflect Ever try to return something to a store, only to discover you have missed the return deadline? You can complain and disagree, but you missed it. I walk away thinking “I wish their return policy was different”, “their refund policy should be different” (okay, sometimes I even think other things…).

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Day 8 – What If This Is True For You?

Read Luke 23: 32-43 Reflect When was the last time you were so hurt or frustrated you weren’t sure what was going to come out next?  What did you feel? How did it end? When was the last time you hurt someone and the only thing you could do was ask for forgiveness?  How did

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Day 7 – The Hidden Side of Belief

Read Matthew 28:16-20 Reflect You often hear people say that to believe in Jesus to become a Christian. And in many ways that’s true. But belief works both ways. One of the things few Christians talk about is that God also believes in us. Just look at the scene in today’s scripture passage. Jesus is

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Day 6 – Why Your Doubts Don’t Disqualify You

Read Matthew 28:9-10; 16-17 Reflect We’ve been working through the resurrection story this week on Your Next 40 Days. I wonder if at any point this week you thought: If I only could have been there 2000 years ago and seen it for myself, I would have believed. But I didn’t see it for myself,

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