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Rooted / Week 4 / Our Trials What He Is Willing to Spend And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.— Isaiah 37:31 (ESV) A couple in their fifties sat…

Rooted / Week 4 / His People The Friend Who Said It Anyway But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.— Hebrews 3:13…

Rooted / Week 4 / His Word The Verse That Would Not Leave Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.— Psalm 119:165 (ESV) A father in his forties reads a chapter most mornings before…

Rooted / Week 4 / Series Launch He Has Not Stopped Speaking Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught,…

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…