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Karla Lees
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🌿See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  ~Isaiah 43:19a (NIVUK)
🌿See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  ~Isaiah 43:19a (NIVUK)
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all His benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. ~Psalm 103:1–3 (NIVUK)
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"In Becoming a Person of Welcome, Laura challenges common assumptions about hospitality and invites readers to reframe their understanding, shifting from outward performance to inward transformation."—Ann Voskamp

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Hospitality: The Warmth and Welcome our World Needs - Ann Voskamp
Many of us have a view of hospitality that includes homes and food. And these are both good things! Yet Christian hospitality is so much more than that. Many of us have experienced the warmth of welco...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Jesus reminds me: persistent prayer is a part of my practice of justice, it honours the worth of the one I’m praying for and leads me closer to the God I’m praying to."

Today on Lectio 365
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Lectio 365 - Wake Up to Justice and Prayer
Persistent prayer is itself an act of justice.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
He loves whatever is just and good;the unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth. The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.
~Psalm 33:5–6 (NLT)
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for You.

~ Psalm 9:9–10 (NLT)
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Wrestling is inherently intimate. You cannot wrestle a person without being close to them, & this truth has shaped how I relate to God.

We live in a culture that relies on materialism, comfort, & easy spiritual answers to avoid that wrestling. But we sacrifice depth as a result.
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#waffle1397 3/5

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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Silver and gold. Trondheim, Norway. Oct 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Canuckle 1284 5/6

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Canuckle - A daily Canadian word game
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
‘Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.’ (Colossians 3:2–3)

Check it out on the Every Day with Jesus app.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time, we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ, than we ever dared hope." - Tim Keller
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
‘Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!’ (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Check it out on the Every Day with Jesus app.
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Every Day with Jesus
Daily Devotion • Read • Listen
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November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
He causes us to remember his wonderful works. How gracious and merciful is our LORD! He gives food to those who fear him;     he always remembers his covenant.
Psalm 111:4–5 (NLT)
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Happy World Kindness Day ! 🫂🤗😽
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Remind me, God of hope, in these dark days of winter how spring has never failed to arrive every year, and always will. #honestprayer
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM