Category: happiness

• Beyond Jealousy

  

  Click here to read the passage for today: Acts 5:17-42 CEB. Jealousy. We all get jealous at times. Sometimes we don’t even want to admit we feel this emotion. Jealousy, when left unchecked, causes us to act in irrational and hurtful ways. Oh, we want to feel excitement for the accomplishments and gifts of other […]

  Ryan Stratton

  05/26/2017

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• Irons in the Fire

  

  We are all busy people, and seem to be getting busier. At the time this blog post gets published, we will be one week away from Thanksgiving. Does that scare anyone? Think of all that needs to be done. Then throw on all the preparations for Christmas and parties and other events, and our lives […]

  Ryan Stratton

  11/17/2016

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• Suffering & Singing

  James 5:13 “If any of you are suffering, they should pray. If any of you are happy, they should sing.” This week we are entering into the final week of our series on James. We’ll be focusing this week on prayer and it’s power. “Are any of you suffering?” This is the first thing we […]

  Ryan Stratton

  09/28/2015

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