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HOW DO WE LOVE LIKE THAT
Eugene Peterson says in the Message translation of Paul's letter in Ephesians 5:1-2, “Watch what God does, and then you do it. Like...
Jena Rainone Smith
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LOVE COVERS SHAME
Last time, I talked about forgiveness. “Forgiveness is an act of Love. Love covers shame.” The question is, how do we walk this out? When...
Jena Rainone Smith
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THE ABILITY TO FORGIVE
Most of us put forgiveness into categories. I know I have. First, there are the little things like being disrespectful or saying...
Jena Rainone Smith
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JENA'S PSALM
Truly God is good and He loves His people. And all their circumstances first pass through His Hands. As night draws near, I feel an...
Jena Rainone Smith
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WHEN DARKNESS SEEMS TO HIDE HIS FACE
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5) The desert, a place that we avoid at all cost…at least...
Jena Rainone Smith
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REFINER
The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you” Psalm 32:8 What happens when...
Jena Rainone Smith
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GOD'S LOVE AFFAIR
Psalm 139:13, 17-18 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. How precious are Your...
Jena Rainone Smith
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LAW AND GRACE
God created a perfect world and man in His image. We, in our need for independence, messed it all up. He knew from the beginning that we...
Jena Rainone Smith
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HINDSIGHT
Today I started to think about Jesus being “The Savior of the World” and what it must have been like to walk with Him…and then this...
Jena Rainone Smith
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TRUE FREEDOM THROUGH MY EYES
I imagine committing a crime and being sentenced to a suffering of some sort. Maybe a prison cell. For me this would be the worst kind of...
Jena Rainone Smith
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WAITING ON GOD
I have waited my whole life for Love. Like most people, I tried to design it myself (more times than I would like to admit). Besides a...
Jena Rainone Smith
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TIMING
Solomon says that there is a time for Everything and that God has a plan for all people. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 1 For everything there is a...
Jena Rainone Smith
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