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December 7, 2020
Confession: I suffer from empathy fatigue
Do you? Honestly answer these ten questions. Have you heard so many stories of pain that it’s difficult to hear one more?Do you feel like you’ve reached your emotional pain threshold?Have you experienced toxic systems (difficult boss, a confusing legal system, spiritual abuse in church, a broken family dynamic)?Have your efforts to change that toxic system […]
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1 Corinthians 10
Todays Scripture: My dear fellow believers, you need to understand that all of our Jewish ancestors who walked through a wilderness long ago were under the glory cloud[a] and passed through the waters of the sea on both sides. 2 They were all baptized[b] into the cloud of glory, into the fellowship of Moses, and into […]
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December 6, 2020
Matthew 5:1-12
Todays Scripture: One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down. His disciples gathered around him, 2 and he began to teach them. 3 God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,[a] for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.4 God blesses those who mourn, for they will be […]
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December 5, 2020
1 Corinthians 9
Todays Scripture: Am I not completely free and unrestrained? Absolutely! Am I not an apostle? Of course! Havent I had a personal encounter with our Jesus face-to-faceand continue to see him?[a] Emphatically yes! Arent you all the proof of my ministry in the Lord?[b] Certainly! 2 If others do not recognize me as their apostle, at […]
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December 4, 2020
1 Corinthians 8
Today’s Scripture: Now let me address the issue of food offered in sacrifice to idols. It seems that everyone believes his own opinion is right on this matter.[a] How easily we get puffed up over our opinions! But love builds up the structure of our new life.[b] 2 If anyone thinks of himself as a know-it-all, […]
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December 3, 2020
1 Corinthians 7:25-40
Today’s Scripture: 25 Now let me address the issue of singleness.[a] I must confess, I have no command to give you that comes directly from the Lord. But let me share my thoughts on the matter, as coming from one who has experienced the mercy[b] of the Lord to keep me faithful to him. 26 Because of […]
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December 2, 2020
1 Corinthians 7:1-24
Today’s Scripture: Now for my response concerning the issues you’ve asked me to address. You wrote saying, “It is proper for a man to live in celibacy.”[a] 2 Perhaps. But because of the danger of immorality,[b] each husband should have sexual intimacy with his wife and each wife should have sexual intimacy with her husband. 3 A […]
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December 1, 2020
1 Corinthians 6
Today’s Scripture: Furthermore, how dare you take a fellow believer to court! It is wrong to drag him before the unrighteous to settle a legal dispute. Isn’t it better to take him before God’s holy believers to settle the matter? 2 Don’t you realize that we, the holy ones, will judge the universe?[a] If the unbelieving […]
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November 30, 2020
Confession: I have writing regrets
As I was teaching my Writer Mastermind groups this week, I confessed something there that I realized I should confess here at MaryDeMuth.com. I have career regrets. If I were to visit my younger writer self, I would’ve given myself a good talking to. Here are five things I would say: Just because someone tells […]
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1 Corinthians 5
Today’s Scripture: It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated[a] among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife. 2 And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be […]
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