Category: living

• Be Confident in Your Calling

  To what do you feel called? In other words, what is your purpose in life? What are you passionate about? These questions are all part of a series of questions we should ask ourselves to better understand who we are as humans. Finding the answer to these questions will also help us see how we […]

  Ryan Stratton

  01/17/2023

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• The Rush

  

  Click here to read Acts 2:1-41. Chris LeDoux, a rock/country artist from the early 1990’s, sang a song called “Stampede.” It was about cowboy driving cattle from one place to another place. All was calm at night while they we trying to rest, until… They heard something that sounded like thunder. But when they looked […]

  Ryan Stratton

  05/04/2017

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• Giving Thanks Daily

  

  Today is Thanksgiving. This is a day we set apart to be thankful for the blessings in our life. We will give thanks for the people, our vocations, our lifestyle, God, etc. What if today, we call this a “day of new beginnings” and talk about all the ways we are thankful everyday? It is […]

  Ryan Stratton

  11/24/2016

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• Wants & Desires

  Colossians 2:20-23 If you died with Christ to the way the world thinks and acts, why do you submit to rules and regulations as though you were living in the world?  “Don’t handle!” “Don’t taste!” “Don’t touch!” All these things cease to exist when they are used. Such rules are human commandments and teachings. They look like they […]

  Ryan Stratton

  04/21/2015

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