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Rooted · Week 3 · Saturday Recap Rooted This whole week was about the distance between knowing and doing, and I felt it as a dad the entire time. The Week in Review We started with the man who looks…

Rooted · Week 3 · Friday The Scar Remembers He had heard the warnings for years. It took a scar for any of it to finally sink in. Everyone had told him, more than once. Slow down. You are going…

Rooted · Week 3 · Thursday The Conviction of Things Unseen She could not see how it was going to work out. She did it anyway. She had felt it for weeks by then, this quiet, persistent conviction that God…

Rooted · Week 3 · Wednesday Faithful in Little Nobody was watching how she handled the small stuff. That turned out to be the entire point. For more than a year she had been stuck with the boring, thankless corner…

Rooted · Week 3 · Tuesday Integrity The lie was small enough that he almost did not count it as a lie at all. He was young, new on the job, and desperate to look like he had it all…

Rooted · Week 3 · Monday Ask for Wisdom He had a real decision to make, and he was quietly trying to think his way to the answer all by himself. It was a big one. The kind with no…

Rooted · Week 3 · Sunday Don’t Just Look Week 3. Time to stop just looking. It is entirely possible to read the Bible your whole life, to hear good preaching every weekend, to nod along to all of it,…

Rooted · Week 2 · Saturday Recap The Other Side This week the boat finally made it to the other side, and I keep thinking about what happened the moment it did. The Week in the Storm We watched Jesus…

Rooted · Week 2 · Friday Eyes on Him, Not the Wind He was doing just fine, right up until he started staring at everything that could go wrong. He had stepped out in real faith, the kind that leaves…

Rooted · Week 2 · Thursday The Fourth Watch By the time help finally came, he had very nearly given up waiting for it. The storm had dragged on so long that he had quietly stopped expecting a rescue. He…