Month: September 2023

Questioning God

Posted: September 28, 2023

One day some friends of a paralytic man were so intent on bringing him to Jesus that they found out where Jesus was staying and carried the man there on a stretcher. But his house was packed and they could not get in the door. With dogged determination, the paralytic’s friends removed the roof top

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Not Understanding

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: September 21, 2023

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart.”1 That is all God asks of us—to trust, to believe, to have faith in him. Specifically, then we are to trust that God (our creator) loves us (because he created us), and he knows what he is doing (because after all, he is our creator)! And so

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Thoughts and Ways

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: September 14, 2023

The most important thing about having faith in God is understanding that we will never understand how God thinks nor will we ever comprehend the purpose of his ways—not until we can see clearly instead of seeing “through a mirror dimly.”1 Not until we reach the place that Jesus is preparing for us, in the

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Growing Faith

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: September 7, 2023

The disciples cried out to Jesus, “Increase our faith!”1 But he did not! 😲 Instead, he rebuked them for having a faith so small that it was almost impossible to see! (Read the August 10th blog for more information.) The question is, then, if Jesus does not give us faith, or even help us grow

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