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Breathe

Breathe

by Grow Team April 10, 2017

This world can be a heavy place.

The kind of heavy that presses down and makes it hard to breathe.

We rush to outrun pain and busy ourselves to forget the crushing weight of days and months and years that don’t turn out the way we thought they would. All of us who have lived a little while know it, that pounding of a frenzied heart racing to keep a desperate body moving. And we push on like we’re been chased by time, carrying that airless ache in our chests.

Jesus’ followers

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Godly Grit

Godly Grit

by Grow Team March 03, 2017

“And what do you do?”

It’s a normal question, a defining question. Tell me what you do with your time, so I can understand who you are.

For a lot of us, if we’re honest, the answer would be, “I wait.”

We wait for the next thing, wait for the kids to be grown, wait for our ship to come in, wait for the right relationships, wait for our dreams to come true and our questions to be answered. And sometimes the waiting drives us a little out of our minds.

We fidget and spin circles, and our impatience drives us so hard against tomorrow that we forget to see today.

We forget to see the truth.

Waiting is close to God’s heart.

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Re:Main in God's Love

Re:Main in God's Love

by Grow Team February 05, 2017

We’re born with an instinct to be curled inward, legs pulled up and fists closed tight. It’s what feels natural and comfortable. As we grow, our bodies adapt and learn to function stretched tall and open, but a lot of us keep living in an emotional fetal position. We’re afraid to be seen and known. We’re afraid of pain and loss and not having enough.

Enough protection.

Enough strength.

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Choose Freedom

Choose Freedom

by Grow Team January 07, 2017

When an old year slides out like a sigh and another one begins, there’s a natural pause at the cusp of all the newness. A lot of us stop and do some thinking.

What do I want from this new year?

How do I kick off the things that have been tying me down in my health, my finances, my career, my relationships?

How do I find freedom?

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A Season of Peace

A Season of Peace

by Grow Team January 07, 2017

She was young. Probably really young.

And probably really scared.

She had never done this before. Mary had never birthed a baby, never groaned hard through such intense pain. There were stable smells, and there was blood, and there were ancient prophecies hanging in the air over it all.

 

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Give Thanks Past Thanksgiving...

Give Thanks Past Thanksgiving...

by Grow Team December 02, 2016

Where Thankfulness Begins

Need.

The Bible is full of deep soul-aching need, story after story of desperate people seeking help, seeking answers. From the beginning of human history in the Garden of Eden, need has borne down heavy and carved canyons into our tender souls.

We are gaping empty.

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Kind

by Grow Team September 07, 2016

This month — the very first month Grow Box is available — we’ve chosen “kindness” as our theme. Sort of curious, isn’t it? After all, “kindness” isn’t a hot topic, a common blog theme, or a subject that hits with a sassy punch.

So why kindness? ...

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Welcome to GROW - God Reveals Our Way

by Angelic Gibson July 24, 2016

Hello there,

I will never forget when my oldest daughter faced her first round of college exams. She was away from home, and she was stressed! 

I remember scrambling, store to store, to find the perfect items to offer encouragement...

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