Author: Bobvestal

Are We More Certain Than We Should Be?

Every Easter season the debates begin again. Was Jesus crucified on Friday? Was it Thursday? Was it Wednesday? Someone pulls out a chart. Someone else pulls out an astronomical table. Before long, people are counting backward, counting forward, calculating moon phases, and debating ancient calendars as if they have a first-century Jewish almanac sitting on […]

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Stop Climbing!

All these years, being in valleys from time to time, I have just realized something. You don’t climb out of a valley. You walk through it. Somehow, I missed that. Every time I found myself in a difficult season, I treated the valley like a low place I had fallen into. And in my mind, […]

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We All Lost

We all lost. Words were said. Actions were taken. The reactions of hurt, pain, or simply the pride of being the one who wasn’t wrong. But we all were wrong. We lost. It was a big price to pay. From the outset, we didn’t realize there was no way to win. Yes, we may have felt like we […]

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It Matters What you Accept

Not everything that enters your life leaves you unchanged. Some things strengthen your identity.Other things slowly replace it. That’s why Genesis 14 is such a powerful moment in Abram’s life. After a great victory, the king of Sodom offers Abram the spoils of war. And Abram refuses. Why? Because Abram understood that some gifts come […]

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Quit Rewriting People’s Stories!

“Don’t rewrite someone else’s story based on your insecurities.” Steve Gilliland Wow – Just Wow! There’s something about that quote that feels very Jesus-ish, isn’t there? Like…how many relationships have been wrecked because somebody interpreted silence as rejection?Or distance as betrayal?Or someone else’s success as proof of their own failure? We do this. We take […]

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