November 1, 2018
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| Tags: faithfulness, fear, Promise, Anxiety, assurance
"Our baseline faith is weak, wavering, broken, and often desperate, but God is tenacious in His assurance. He will reveal Himself in the everyday mundane, or the forty years of wandering in the desert, or enslavement in Egypt."...
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October 25, 2018
by Alyson Noell
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Sermon Reflection
| Tags: faithfulness, fear, weakness
"So while I continue to live in fear of being found out, I am reminded that Christ has already fully redeemed me, and that my value comes exclusively from Him. That value is completely independent of anything I might offer or pretend to offer, and that in fact is says more about His love and his grace if I acknowledge that I really had nothing to offer to begin with."...
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August 22, 2018
by Emily Leslie
| Tags: judgment, Sin, fear, Refuge, Evil
"Our culture loves to numb pain-- give me all the ice cream, netflix, relationships, alcohol, handbags, adventures and travel...I don’t want to feel a thing. We hide in hobbies, in careers, in families, in fleeting pleasures and constant distractions, never slowing down to face the sharp edges of the evil within our own hearts."...
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May 10, 2018
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| Tags: albuquerque, Sovereignty, hope, love, grace, provision, Mercy, Church, fear, Wrath, Albuquerque Church, Sermon Reflection, Sermon, Church blog, Picture, Genesis, Revelation, Bookends, Art, Impressions, Artist
My trials and suffering feel like the squashing of color and blurring of lines to the point that my portrait isn’t the perfect and skilled mimesis of what the world expects. Yet, there is so much more depth, so much more character. ...
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January 4, 2018
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| Tags: albuquerque, faithfulness, faithful, hope, blog, Jesus, God, Church, Covenant, fear, Albuquerque Church, Church blog, Promise, Savior, Creation, Genesis, Flood, Rescue, Rescuer, Noah, Rainbow
The rainbow is not a promise that life will get better after experiencing a storm. The rainbow is the promise that God will send a rescue, that God will be our refuge....
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June 21, 2017
by Bronwyn Siebert
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Gospel
| Tags: gospel, albuquerque, presence, Sovereignty, trust, God, Control, fear, Comfort, Albuquerque Church, ABQ Church, Daniel, Church blog
When we are faced with “the writing on the wall”, when God’s Holy presence in our lives unsettles and awakens us to reality- where do we run?...
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February 23, 2017
by Emily Leslie
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Category:
Gospel
| Tags: Renewed, Restoration, fear, trust, dependence, gospel
We want to be the hero, taking away our need for a savior. But that’s not the way God designed us, and that’s not how he promises to bring restoration....
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October 27, 2016
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Gospel
| Tags: gospel, Truth, wisdom, Politics, collaboration, solutions, discussion, fear, engage, political
I can engage in the political sphere without fear ...
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