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[Marshall @Marshall_589X]

@LilaVoss Sweet flocked crocs you got there!

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@LilaVoss @HamnerBria17017 Oh ffs, is this how it started!

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@LilaVoss Careful your head doesn’t get to big

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@AlexAnn98 Right there with you!

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@l_i_n_d_z__ Damn, just think about the cameras on that thing! It can zoom in on a golf ball.

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@mrcauliman Isaiah 46:9-10

Isaiah 55:8-9

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Sunset, fall

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@xtina_george I vote on Election Day in a little town in flyover country. I can see the benefits of early voting in densely populated areas, especially in not-so-distant elections where equipment fails on Election Day in red areas for unknown reasons.

[Marshall @Marshall_589X]

@DChibani May God’s grace strengthen you and His spirit guide you.

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@mrcauliman Absolutely! Amen

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Fall has started at our summer swimming hole. Looks like we’ll need to fix the rope swing again too.

Manistee River, northern Michigan

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Spiritual growth should be expected wherever Christ is truly at work in a believer. Jesus said, “Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2). The Christian life is living union with Christ, and living things grow. Where there is life, there should increasingly be fruit.

We should be careful, however, with the idea that growth must always be rapid. Sanctification is often slow, uneven, and painful. There are seasons of visible progress and seasons where God seems to be working almost entirely beneath the surface. Yet the direction of a believer’s life should increasingly show repentance, obedience, holiness, love, and dependence upon Christ.

Jesus said, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me” (John 15:4). Spiritual growth does not come from human determination alone. Christ supplies the life, and the Holy Spirit produces what fallen flesh could never manufacture: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control” (Galatians 5:22–23).

This is why genuine sanctification should humble us. When we see real change in ourselves, we cannot boast as though we produced it independently. Paul says, “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). We labour, resist sin, pursue holiness, pray, study Scripture, and obey, while recognizing that beneath all of it is the gracious work of God.

At the same time, years of Christianity with no visible repentance, no deepening obedience, no growing hatred of sin, and no increasing love for Christ should concern us. Grace does not leave the believer exactly where it found him. The Lord who begins His work continues it: “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).

So our question should be deeper than whether we are growing quickly. Are we being changed? Are the hands of the Gardener evident in our lives? Is the Holy Spirit producing fruit that was once absent? Christian maturity may grow quietly, but where Christ gives life, He does not leave the soul barren.

[Marshall @Marshall_589X]

@mrcauliman It’s my turn to lead our worship team devotion tonight and this is the verse I’ve centered around and studied up this week.

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@xtina_george Glad you’re back, I enjoy your presence on here, have a great weekend.

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@JohnGetchel Clearwater, sunrise

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Morning
West Arm, Grand Traverse Bay

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@eva_joy1