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Jena Rainone Smith
Jun 13, 20173 min read
HOW DO WE LOVE LIKE THAT
Eugene Peterson says in the Message translation of Paul's letter in Ephesians 5:1-2, “Watch what God does, and then you do it. Like...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Jun 1, 20173 min read
LOVE COVERS SHAME
Last time, I talked about forgiveness. “Forgiveness is an act of Love. Love covers shame.” The question is, how do we walk this out? When...
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Jena Rainone Smith
May 27, 20172 min read
THE ABILITY TO FORGIVE
Most of us put forgiveness into categories. I know I have. First, there are the little things like being disrespectful or saying...
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Jena Rainone Smith
May 5, 20162 min read
JENA'S PSALM
Truly God is good and He loves His people. And all their circumstances first pass through His Hands. As night draws near, I feel an...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Oct 10, 20133 min read
WHEN DARKNESS SEEMS TO HIDE HIS FACE
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5) The desert, a place that we avoid at all cost…at least...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Nov 14, 20124 min read
REFINER
The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you” Psalm 32:8 What happens when...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Oct 25, 20123 min read
GOD'S LOVE AFFAIR
Psalm 139:13, 17-18 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. How precious are Your...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Jul 22, 20122 min read
LAW AND GRACE
God created a perfect world and man in His image. We, in our need for independence, messed it all up. He knew from the beginning that we...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Dec 17, 20102 min read
HINDSIGHT
Today I started to think about Jesus being “The Savior of the World” and what it must have been like to walk with Him…and then this...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Dec 6, 20102 min read
TRUE FREEDOM THROUGH MY EYES
I imagine committing a crime and being sentenced to a suffering of some sort. Maybe a prison cell. For me this would be the worst kind of...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Apr 19, 20102 min read
WAITING ON GOD
I have waited my whole life for Love. Like most people, I tried to design it myself (more times than I would like to admit). Besides a...
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Jena Rainone Smith
Jan 3, 20093 min read
TIMING
Solomon says that there is a time for Everything and that God has a plan for all people. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 1 For everything there is a...
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