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Greetings! I hope that you are encouraged and strengthened in the Lord this weekend as you gather with the saints in your local body of believers to worship Him. May we increasingly more like Jesus as we follow closely after Him.

• Don’t Run from Tension. Embrace It. – “But tension isn’t always a warning light to indicate something’s malfunctioning一it can be useful, even beautiful. Power lines utilize tension to stay safely hoisted above pedestrians. Cello strings appropriately tuned produce breathtaking music. Similarly, the more we’re stretched by God, the more he can use us. Here are four reasons Christians should embrace tension…”

• A Conversation with God for the Doubter in All of Us – “There is a tension here. Humility helps my heart to rest in what I don’t understand, and love for God will move my heart to desire to understand more. In the meantime, there are many things in the Word of God that are crystal clear; these we can be living in humble surrender to the One we long to know more intimately.”

• For Our Endurance and Faith – “God, I pray for the faith of the saints that they would trust in you in the middle of whatever they’re walking through, that they would know, even right now that they would be reminded that they are not alone.”

• Letter to a Young Man Desiring to Follow Jesus – “Who you become will be the result of the daily choices you make. The key to spirituality is the development of little habits—Bible reading and memorization and prayer—which will develop into life disciplines. Through God’s Word, the Holy Spirit transforms our hearts and minds.”

• Is Jael a Modern Woman?: Feminine Fight in a Feminist Age – “What some fail to notice is the distinctly feminine way Jael conquers her enemy. She does not approach him on the field of open combat so that she can jujitsu her way to a victory. She deceives him, making him believe she’s a place of safety and refuge as she bides her time, tent peg within reach.”