Today makes one year.
One year following the conclusion of my preliminary studies of the Bible. You know — the ones that made me realize I had a lot more studying to do.
12 months since I wrote my letter to God – telling Him why I wanted to be baptized.
365 days since I publicly declared, “Jesus is Lord.”
Today is Brad’s and my Spiritual Birthday – or Birthday of our Baptism…
Over the past five days, I wrote a series of posts on Freedom. It seemed pretty appropriate as the United States was celebrating its Independence Day. And, as I was going over all of the Freedoms given to us from God, I was struck at how much there is for us to be thankful for.
As a recap, I thought I would go back and share a quick summary of each post and the verses that have stayed with me throughout the week. Be sure to click on the links after the verses to read the entire post!
(If you missed the previous posts from my Freedom Series, be sure to go back and catch up! To read, Freedom from Burdens, click here. For Freedom from Sin and Death click here. And, for Freedom from Worldly Priorities, click here.)
When Brad and I were first studying the Bible, one of my biggest struggles was understanding how God could give me Freedom from my Guilt and Shame. I had a really hard time wrapping my brain around how He could find me worthy of His grace and forgiveness.
In our Bible Talk we have been going through the Fruits of the Spirit.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
So far, I have written about Love and Joy. (Check out those posts at Love, Love, Love, and Have a Joyful and Happy Day.) This past week, Brad and I led a discussion on Peace.
Recently, I had the great pleasure of removing slime from our carpet. You can read all about it and what we learned from that experience in my slime post! But, one of the things I needed to remind myself to do during the hour-long ordeal was to pray in gratitude for my daughter…
