August 31, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
God gave blessings and God gave boundaries. Joseph knew that he couldn’t accept one without the other....
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August 30, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
With success comes challenge....
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August 29, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
The Lord’s blessing on the household didn’t remove Joseph’s challenges, but they did change his experience....
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August 28, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Your prospering doesn’t ultimately depend on your circumstances....
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August 25, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Though God is not mentioned once in Genesis 37, we later discover that he was at work all throughout this painful and difficult episode....
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August 24, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Let’s refuse to participate in the destructive practice of dehumanization....
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August 23, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Our dreams can reveal our areas of immaturity, as can our way of communicating them.
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August 22, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Favoritism is one of many broken relational patterns that separate us from each other....
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August 21, 2017
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The Connect Devotional, Weekly Music Notes
We can’t rid ourselves of our automatic habit of capturing first impressions as we meet new people, but we can cultivate habits of attention that allow us to look beyond those initial judgements....
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August 18, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
The Lord constantly works through communities. For every great figure in the story of our faith, we also find the Lord sending them friends....
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August 17, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
As God’s blessings pile up in and around us, we need to share them with others. Only then will God’s blessings to us be complete....
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August 16, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
God holds up his side of the covenant. Though his covenant purposes advance over rocky terrain, they advance nonetheless....
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August 15, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
God's invitation stands. It’s our turn to respond. What will we do?...
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August 14, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
The adventure of life with God gives us healing and joy and blessing, but it also stretches us. We leave familiar territory, relationships, programs, and narratives behind when we launch out into this adventure....
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August 11, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
What if the craziness we feel when we’re crazy busy is due to having two different songs playing inside of us: the drumbeat of eternity and the roar of busyness?...
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August 10, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
God has made everything beautiful in its time. Even us. ...
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August 9, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Without meaning, work becomes miserable and we lose our drive....
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August 8, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
This burst of poetry reaches out and connects with our hearts. We’re given space to connect viscerally and emotionally with God’s truth about the seasonal nature of life....
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August 7, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
God does huge things in our lives when we shift from Now-Or-Never Thinking to Season Thinking....
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August 4, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
The Lord is the one who makes known to us the paths of life....
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August 3, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Contentment is the fruit of a soul who’s put down roots in the generosity of God....
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August 2, 2017
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The Connect Devotional, Weekly Music Notes
We love hard work. We work hard. But the Lord is the one who holds our ultimate security....
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August 1, 2017
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The Connect Devotional
Other gods make big promises if only we’ll worship them. They give us benefits in the short-term (sometimes). But over time these gods fail us. And we suffer more and more as a result of our bondage to them....
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