Thrive by The Word https://www.thrivebytheword.com/ Renewed minds, transformed lives Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:38:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 138648456 Teach us to number our days https://www.thrivebytheword.com/teach-us-to-number-our-days/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/teach-us-to-number-our-days/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:38:19 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1177 It was my birthday yesterday, and even though I am not one to make an elaborate fuss of such a day (more so being married to a man who’s just as apathetic about such, maybe a tad more even), it provided a good opportunity for me to pause for some reflective review. Looking back, I …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/teach-us-to-number-our-days/feed/ 3 1177 Confronting Christianity https://www.thrivebytheword.com/confronting-christianity/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/confronting-christianity/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:39:41 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1171 No, I haven’t mistakenly scored an own goal! Neither am I having second thoughts about my Christian faith. What I’ve done is borrowed Rebeca McLaughlin’s book title, Confronting Christianity – 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion.  What better title could I have come up with for a book recommendation? Another confession. Reading has …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/confronting-christianity/feed/ 1 1171 Blessed are those who mourn https://www.thrivebytheword.com/blessed-are-those-who-mourn/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/blessed-are-those-who-mourn/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:24:04 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1162 In the wake of all the unrest going on around the world in the last couple of days, particularly in the US, I reached out to a dear friend across the pond to know how she was faring and what prayers were on her heart. On my part, my heart was still reeling from the …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/the-helper/feed/ 3 1157 Praying with Jehoshaphat* https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-jehoshaphat/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-jehoshaphat/#comments Mon, 11 May 2020 08:34:17 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1149 “You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.” – John Bunyan. O Lord, the God of all mankind, enthroned in the heavens, the God who reigns supremely over all kingdoms and over all the nations of the earth! You are the self-sufficient …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-jehoshaphat/feed/ 4 1149 Praying with the Psalmist, David https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-the-psalmist-david/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-the-psalmist-david/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:51:48 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1141 Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, and your faithfulness to the skies. You have loved us not because we are lovely, but to make us lovely. May we love you in return. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, and your justice is like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-the-psalmist-david/feed/ 3 1141 Praying with Jonah https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-jonah/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/praying-with-jonah/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:27:12 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1132 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” 1 John 5:14 Even so, we pray still! In our distress, we call to you, O Lord, please answer us. From the deep, in the realm of the dead, we call for help, please …

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]]> 1127 Nehemiah prays https://www.thrivebytheword.com/nehemiah-prays/ https://www.thrivebytheword.com/nehemiah-prays/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:31:13 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1121 In light of all that is going on around us, would you lend your voice in prayer today, following in the footsteps of Nehemiah? Oh sovereign Lord of heaven and earth, the great and awesome God, who loves relentlessly and sacrificially. Faithful and dependable are you. We love you because you have first loved us. …

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]]> https://www.thrivebytheword.com/nehemiah-prays/feed/ 2 1121 What about suffering? https://www.thrivebytheword.com/what-about-suffering/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:17:06 +0000 https://www.thrivebytheword.com/?p=1111 High on the list of objections to Christianity is the problem of evil and suffering. This is not particularly surprising, as one needs to only catch a glimpse of newspapers and news channels. They are brimming with reports of all manner of atrocities and disasters, natural and man-made alike. This ill does not spare any known …

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