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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…

Rooted · Week 2 · Wednesday He’s Praying for You In the worst of it, the thing that got to her most was not the trouble itself. It was the feeling that she was completely on her own in it….

Rooted · Week 2 · Tuesday Sent Into the Storm He did the right thing, the genuinely hard and costly right thing, and he fully expected God to bless it. Instead, everything got harder. He had made the obedient call,…

Rooted · Week 2 · Monday Even Jesus Grieved He kept it together at the funeral, at the house afterward, and at work on Monday morning. He thought that was simply what a strong man was supposed to do. When…

Rooted · Week 2 · Sunday Take Heart Week 2. Same storm, deeper water. Last week in Rooted we learned that joy is the power to endure a trial, and that we do not get to choose the storm, only…

Rooted · Week 1 · Saturday Recap Rooted This week we sank roots into joy, which is not happiness but the power to endure. Five Storms We watched a woman stop gripping for control and discover that a lot of…

Rooted · Week 1 · Friday Yet I Will Rejoice He lost the thing he had spent years building, and on the worst night of it, he chose to sing. Not because he felt like singing. Everything he had worked…