Thanking Your Way to Gratitude

Research is showing us that there is a practice that can have a significant positive impact on our general health and specifically on our mental and emotional health.  That practice is being grateful. According to research from the University of California, gratitude is not just a happy emotion; it can improve one's health. Individuals who …

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Our Response to the Covenant Love of God (Part 5 in a series)

A Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. (This is a continuation of the exploration of our God’s “hesed” love, His covenant love for us.) What is to be our response to …

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Climb Free: The Covenant Love of God in the New Testament

Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. (This is part 4 in a series, a continuation of the exploration of our God’s “hesed” love, His covenant love for us.) Just what is …

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The Love of God – His Steadfast Love (Part 3 in a series)

A Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. (This is a continuation of the exploration of our God’s “hesed” love, His covenant love for us.) The covenant love our God is always …

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How Shall We Press On to Know Our God?

Some people, when the conversation turns to intimacy and communion with their God, light up and become energized.  It is clear they enjoy their God, and long for the consciousness of His presence.  John Piper said this; “But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, …

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Familiarity, Not Facts; Intimacy, Not Information.

“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on forever.”                                                                                           - JI Packer What does it mean to know your God as it …

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