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Exhortations, meditations, and encouragement from and for Cities Church
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- counsel
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- count the cost
- courage
- Courage
- covenant
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- covid
- creation
- Creation
- cross
- Cross
- crowd
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- CS Lewis
- culture
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- current
- darkness
- Darkness
- David
- Day of the Lord
- deacons
- death
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- decisions
- dedication
- Deeper
- Delight
- Deliverance
- dependence
- device
- Devil
- devotion
- Devotion
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- difficult
- Disagreement
- Disappointment
- discernment
- disciple
- discipleship
- Discipleship
- discipline
- distraction
- Distraction
- Division
- doctrine
- doubt
- dwelling
- Easter
- Ecclesiastes
- eldership
- emmaus road
- emotions
- encouragement
- Endeavors
- endurance
- enthusiasm
- Envy
- Epiphany
- Essentials
- eternity
- Eternity
- evangelism
- Evangelism
- Eve
- Everlasting Father
- evil
- Exhort
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- Exodus
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- faith
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- faithful
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- false humilty
- family
- Family
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- fast
- fasting
- Father
- Father's Day
- fear
- Fear
- fear of God
- fear of man
- fellowship
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- Flood
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- foreknowledge
- forgiven
- forgiveness
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- Foster Care
- framing
- Freedom
- Freedom in Christ
- Friendliness
- friendship
- Friendship
- fruit of spirit
- frustration
- future
- Future
- galatians
- gender
- generosity
- Generosity
- Genesis
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- giving
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- glo
- global missions
- Global Missions
- glory
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- God
- God's faithfulness
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- godliness
- Godward
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- gospel
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- guidance
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- guilt
- Habit
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- Halloween
- happiness
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- Heart
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- heaven
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- Human Nature
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- Ice Cream
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- integrity
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- Isaiah 9:6
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- Luther
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- marketplace
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- media
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- Minnesota
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- nations
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- presence
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- questions
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- Race
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- sick
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- Sin
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- skepticism
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- Son of God
- sorrow
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- sowing
- speaking
- special
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- Study
- substitution
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- Summer 2024
- Summit
- Sunday
- Sunrise
- supportive
- supremacy of christ
- Sweet as Honey
- symbol
- Symbols
- Sympathy
- teaching
- technology
- temptation
- testing
- thankfulness
- Thankfulness
- thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving
- The Cities Institute
- The glory of God
- The sovereignty of God
- The Watchful Man
- the world
- theology
- Theology
- thief
- Things of Earth
- time
- Time
- Tired
- Tithe
- Torrance
- Total Depravity
- transformation
- Treasure
- trial
- Trial
- trials
- Trials
- trinity
- Triumph
- trust
- Trust
- truth
- Truth
- TV
- Twin Cities
- Tyndale
- unbelief
- Unbelief
- Unbelievers
- understanding
- union with Christ
- unity
- Unity
- unreached peoples
- update
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- Value
- Values
- victory
- vision
- Vision
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- Voddie Baucham
- waiting
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- wake
- War
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- We Are Cities Church
- weak
- weakness
- wealth
- weary
- welcome
- Welcome
- Wicked
- widows
- Winter
- wisdom
- Wisdom
- Wise Men
- witness
- Witness
- Wives
- women
- Women
- word
- word of God
- words
- work
- Work
- working
- works
- worldliness
- Worldliness
- worship
- Worship
- Worshippers
- zeal
- Alen Andrews
- Andrea Hoglund
- Brett Toney
- Caitlin Boon
- Cities Church
- Clint Manley
- Dan Nichols
- Daniel Helstrom
- David Easterwood
- David Mathis
- David Wierzba
- Emily Thiel
- Erica Foster
- Erin Horn
- Jenny Rigney
- Joe Rigney
- Joel Button
- Jon Hoglund
- Jonathan Parnell
- Jordan Hecox
- Josh Jacobs
- Joshua Foster Sr
- Joshua Whetstine
- Josiah Bennett
- Kate Etter
- Kenneth Ortiz
- Kevin & Brook Kleiman
- Kevin Kleiman
- Kyle McIver
- Larry Martini
- Linda Linder
- Lindsey Dare
- Marshall Segal
- Matt Clausen
- Max Kozak
- Melissa Parnell
- Michael Thiel
- Mike Polley
- Mike Schumann
- Nick Aufenkamp
- Ryan Griffith
- Sahr Brima
- Sam Choi
- Sarah Brima
- Todd Fruehauf
- Tom Keefe
- Tyler Morris
- Zach Krych
- Zach Lang
Exhortation
Michael Thiel
Exhortation
Michael Thiel
The Unusual Way of God
Our God does things differently from what we might think. He does not operate like we do as self-serving people.