Otts On Mission
Reflections on ministry, mission, and the Church
Tag: Christian Living
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All Is Not Lost.
All is not lost.God will come through for us.This I know to be true…Even if we are without a way,His care will still be seen. But He will come through.Of this we can be sure.It is good to wait,to wait quietlyfor the salvation of the Lord. And so we shall.
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God Is Good?
Is God Good? “May you always choose to believe that God is good and that he has good for you, no matter the circumstances.” So part of my prayer every night over my boys goes. These words are as much for my boys as they are for me. Some days it is quite difficult to…
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Faith For When We Can’t See
Looking For Light in The Darkness The past few years have been some of the most difficult years of our family’s lives. Since returning from Italy we’ve seemingly found ourselves wandering what’s felt like a never-ending wilderness. We search for a land that we thought God was preparing for us. We have prayed. God has…
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Thoughts, Passions, and Sin
Sin as Sickness A kid was recently shot fairly close to where we live. In the middle of the woods, surrounded by other teens, he was shot and killed. Humanity is sick. We see the brokenness of our world just about everywhere these days. All of us feel it. We experience it in just about…
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The Stories We Tell
We want the action! Every Friday night at our house is movie night. It is one of the most sacred nights of our week. If we miss a movie night for some unforeseen reason our kids will undoubtedly plead for a makeup night. We’ve watched a variety of different movies ranging from animated comedies to…
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Gluttony and The Spiritual Warfare of Our Minds
The Starting Point For Spiritual Warfare Throughout history the spiritual fathers and mothers wrote extensively on the topic of spiritual warfare and the battleground of the mind. It is the plane on which the spiritual battle takes place. The enemy dispatches a variety of carefully crafted and pointed attacks on our mind, attempting to change…