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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…

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…