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I Choose Today to Obey, Even When It’s Uncomfortable

Molinda Hern April 14, 2026

As I was reading Acts 10 during a devotional, something caught my attention. It wasn’t just the vision Peter had, it was what came next. Because what God asked Peter to do wasn’t just unusual. It was uncomfortable. Eat With Sinners “The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon, and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.…Then a voice said to him, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.’ ‘No, Lord,’ Peter declared. ‘I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.’ But the voice spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’” Acts 10:9–15, NLT In the Old Testament, God gave His people specific instructions to remain set apart. Dietary laws and boundaries around marriage with surrounding nations were meant to protect them from idolatry and preserve the lineage through which the Messiah would come. It wasn’t about superiority, it was about protection and purpose. But something radical shifts in Acts 10. Until this point, the gospel had reached Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, just as Jesus

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I Choose Today to Focus on Life

Molinda Hern April 7, 2026

As I was praying over a friend’s medical prognosis, I was reminded of a simple visual saying: A hummingbird and a vulture fly over the same desert. One searches for life, the other for death. Both find exactly what they’re looking for. I’ve mentioned this analogy before in relation to the words we speak, how our words can either bring life or death depending on what we choose to say. But this time, the Lord brought it to mind in a different way, not about our words, but about our thoughts. You see, when we look at the world around us, wars, division, brokenness, and even personal crises like medical diagnoses, it’s easy to focus on the negative. It’s easy to see the chaos and begin to expect more chaos. It’s a natural road to travel, and before long, we find ourselves scanning everything for what might go wrong. Like the vulture, we begin searching for death. But what if we chose to look for life instead? Because if we look for life, we will find it. I’m reminded of Jesus’ words to His disciples as He prepared them for the difficult road ahead: “I have told you all this

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I Choose Today to Remember the Crown of Thorns

Molinda Hern March 31, 2026

Holy Week invites us to slow down and remember. This year, I found myself reflecting on one powerful symbol — the crown of thorns. During this Holy Week, I have been reflecting on what Christ went through leading up to and including the cross. He was tortured. “Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head. They clothed Him in a purple robe and went up to Him again and again, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ And they slapped Him in the face.” John 19:1–3 But even in their cruelty, God was revealing something deeper, something that had been set in motion from the very beginning. In Genesis 3:17–18, after Adam and Eve sinned, God said: “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you…” Did you catch that? Thorns were part of the curse. They were part of the consequences of sin, the brokenness that entered the world when humanity chose to be right in its own eyes. And it was these same thorns

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I Choose Today to Live From Who I Already Am

Molinda Hern March 28, 2026

Over the past year, we’ve been walking a journey together. Fifty episodes. Fifty conversations. Fifty opportunities to pause, reflect, and choose differently. And as I sat with this moment, Episode 51, the end of this first season, I felt led to do something simple. Pause. Because sometimes the most meaningful thing we can do is stop and look at where God has brought us. Over the last several episodes, we’ve been talking about identity. Who we are in Christ. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, both in my own life and in walking alongside others, it’s this: Everything changes when we understand who we are. Because when we don’t know who we are, we strive. We compare. We perform. We try to earn what has already been given. But when identity settles into our hearts, something shifts. We stop striving… and we begin living. This series began with receiving identity. Not carving it. Not earning it. Not proving it. But receiving it. Because so many of us have spent years trying to become someone, trying to measure up, trying to prove our worth, trying to feel like we belong. But Scripture reminds us that in Christ, identity is not

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I Choose Today to Reflect Christ

Molinda Hern March 14, 2026

The other day I was driving down the road listening to a worship song when a lyric caught my attention. The song said that we were made to glorify God. It sounded beautiful, but it also made me pause and wonder what that actually looks like in real life. Not on Sunday morning when the music is playing. But on a Tuesday. When you’re tired, running errands, and life feels ordinary. What does it really look like to glorify God in everyday life? The Bible tells us we were made for this. Paul writes: “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” —1 Corinthians 10:31 Did you notice the examples he chose? Eating. Drinking. The most ordinary activities imaginable. Paul wasn’t talking about church services or worship songs. He was talking about daily life. So how do ordinary people glorify an extraordinary God? What does it actually mean to glorify God? In Scripture, God is glorified when His character becomes visible. When His love is seen. When His mercy is experienced. When His patience shows up in real human lives. Jesus even said that when people see the way we

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