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Walking Free – Week Twenty-One

What does surrender ultimately accomplish? Take a deep breath in and let it out. Now reach up and feel the pulse in your neck. Every breath you breathe - every heartbeat you feel - is an act of God’s mercy. You would not be alive if it were not for … [Read more...]

Walking Free – Week Twenty

How do you make it last? If you are like me, you have a history of great starts with good intentions and lousy finishes with no lasting results. I understand your fear and doubt. I’ve asked myself the same questions: “Can I really change?” and “Can … [Read more...]

Walking Free – Week Nineteen

It costs us something to surrender. The apostle Paul said it this way: “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave … [Read more...]

Walking Free – Week Eighteen

How does one go about surrendering? Things are not always what they seem. A person can walk past a building which, at first glance, appears to be undergoing demolition. Bricks and wooden siding are piled up around nothing but a foundation. Windows … [Read more...]

Walking Free – Week Seventeen

Jesus surrendered as He was being chased by OUR sin. The things you did that brought you to this place were some of the very things that caused Christ to surrender in the Garden. God’s deep, abiding love for you, for me, and for the rest of the world … [Read more...]