GC Students Daily Devos

I sometimes get angry at dumb things, like when my shoe laces get untangled! Most anger is unhelpful to say the least, but anger in rare circumstances can be OK, and it’s named righteous anger. It’s like in John 2 or Mark 3 when Jesus got angry because religious leaders were actively leading people away […]

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There was a song in the late 90s that got really popular. I mean, really popular. And the line that sticks out to me is also its title, “I want it that way.” Do you know this song? In Matthew 5, Jesus continues talking about anger and how it’s sometimes a result of how, “I […]

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Name calling, bullying, anger–it’s sometimes hurtful and absolutely draining to be on the receiving end of these things. And God does NOT want this to be the way we treat each other! In Matthew 5:21-22, Jesus draws a hard line and says that murder and bullying and name-calling are all the same thing, and they’re […]

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When I was in 1st grade, I started learning French as a 2nd language. The reason I started learning it so young was that the older I got, the harder it would be. Our brains make neural pathways and roads as we learn and grow that get harder to rewrite the older we get. Sometimes […]

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In college I did something weird… I tried to become ambidextrous. But I only succeeded in being able to brush my teeth with my left hand, which was strange at first but then became natural. In Matthew 5:20 Jesus seems to tell us that in order to get into heaven, we must be perfect. But […]

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