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Faith in Five
by Mark VanDellen
Faith in Five is a weekly devotional designed to discuss practical spiritual concepts in five minutes or less.
Episodes
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Songs of the Season: Joy to the World
The Christmas season is supposed to be all about "joy." But how do we find real, lasting, authentic joy-- regardless of what's happening in our lives? In the final installment of our "Songs of the Season" series, we're going to learn from His Word and the iconic Christmas song "Joy to the World."…
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Songs of the Season: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
We all have a lot of things we want for Christmas, but what are the things that God actually wants to give to us? What does He want us to experience in this Christmas season? In the third installment of our "Songs of the Season" series, we're going to learn from His word and the Christmas carol...
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Songs of the Season: Carol of the Bells
What kind of "cares" are you carrying this holiday season? What kind of anxieties are coming up as Christmas gets closer? God has something that He wants to do to help take care of our cares. In the second installment of our "Songs of the Season" series, we're going to learn from His word and…
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Songs of the Season: O Holy Night
Do you ever feel weary around the holiday season (physically, mentally, and emotionally)? What are God's antidotes to our weariness? To kick off our Christmas 2022 series, "Songs of the Season," we're going to learn from His Word and from the famous song "O Holy Night." A special thank you to...
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Shaping You (Shema): Shaping Perspective | Faith in Five
Stop for a second and consider all the many things you have in your home. 1st most of us have a place to stay and a roof over our heads. We have a pantry with food and a bathroom with running water and toilets that flush. These things are amazing. We might even have windows that look outside with...
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Shaping You (Shema): Shaping Actions | Faith in Five
If you have kids or have ever babysat or even observed parents parenting, you are aware that kids have a unique ability to hear but not listen. Parents regularly ask, “Will you clean up your room?” or extend the invitation for bath time or dinnertime to no response or action. In the moment…
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Shaping You (Shema): Shaping Thoughts | Faith in Five
Research on the power of has increased significantly in the last 5 years. New books are being published on the power of the words in our heads, positive verse negative self-talk, speaking things in the future into existence, and carefully choosing our words with others because of their impact.…
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I Love: YOU | Faith in Five
We are uniquely created for connection. As such, we are sensitive to similarities and differences…we are drawn toward similarities and away from differences. The tricky thing is that we will find whichever of these we are looking for. Essentially, if we focus on the differences, it will be easy…
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I Love: ME | Faith in Five
There was a social media trend where people shared “My name is X but they call me…” and then proceeded to list all the many nicknames they have. Many of us have childhood nicknames, names given to us by friends or coworkers, and names of affection from those closest to us. We also all have names…
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Wonderful Christmas: Never the Same | Faith in Five
You’ve probably heard the internet trend “I was today years old…” which is kind of a fun viral movement of people sharing things that they never knew but were life changing or novel. People post about household hacks that make their life easier, song lyrics they never knew the real meaning…
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Wonderful Christmas: Control the Villain | Faith in Five
While most of us would not call ourselves “control freaks” or at least not readily admit it, we all have some desire for control in our lives. In the chaos of our daily lives, we often try to find some semblance of control in the places within our immediate influence. However, sometimes our need...
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Wonderful Christmas: Adventure | Faith in Five
One of the favorite parts of travel and taking trips to new places is the sense of anticipation and adventure that awaits (in addition to time off work). We excitedly plan and pack everything, we climb into a car or board a plane with with an open and expectant mind, and we are typically prepared...
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Wonderful Christmas: Watch and Wonder | Faith in Five
Kids are curious creatures. While they like to repetitively ask questions like “why?”, they see things through a simplified lens. Kids experience great moments of awe when learning new things. They are regularly on the lookout of things that reinforce what they are learning and being taught, and...
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Thankful: I Remember | Faith in Five
It's that time of year again...time to be thankful. It's the beginning of the season where we gather more often with friends and family to eat, drink, and be merry. Thanksgiving is the beginning of the time where being thankful seems like the most obvious thing in the world, and yet it's so easy…
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Mud Puddles: Walk Around | Faith in Five
Having it all figured out is something that we seem to understand isn’t possible, and yet we tend to behave as if not having everything figured out is somehow wrong. We expect to be better at something without having first been worse at it. We expect to get to the top of a mountain without the...
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Mud Puddles: Don't Look Down | Faith in Five
We probably all have a friend that is afraid of heights and some of us might be that friend. Often people have a hard time communicating why it is they are afraid of what they are afraid of, but they feel it. Click here to view or download the free discussion guide for this video!...
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Mud Puddles: We're all Wet | Faith in Five
When we see someone trip and fall, when we see a trash bag someone else is carrying break open, when we see someone on the side of the road…we typically think “I am glad that’s not me.” We make note of these bad day type things and immediately get back to our regular scheduled plans. When it’s...
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Mud Puddles: No Words | Faith in Five
When we overbook our calendars and run from thing to thing to thing, we don’t experience much margin. Most of us struggle with slowing down and doing nothing. Being busy is often synonymous with feeling successful or productive, but it has also become coping mechanism for not having to deal with...
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Mud Puddles: Wet & Cold | Faith in Five
There are seasons in our lives where things just don’t seem to be going right. From little things like bad wifi or tech issues to big things like family tragedies, sickness, or kid issues and everything in between; it seems like things stack up on us. Many of us have experienced the old adage,...
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Beautiful Things: What's Cooler Than Being Cool? | Faith in Five
Hanging out with friends (good friends) is a great opportunity to let our guard down. When we let go of the desire or pretense that comes with trying to look cool and have it all figured out, we can go deeper in friendships, we can grow in our understanding of others, and we can experience a...
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Beautiful Things: Do Happy Work | Faith in Five
We all have some “secret rules” that we believe that prevent us from doing more and enjoying life. Some of us believe that if it’s hard, it’s wrong; but we also subsequently believe that if it’s easy, then it’s not worth it. Some of us believe that if our efforts can’t make us money, then it’s…
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Beautiful Things: Create Calm | Faith in Five
We are always “ON.” We are connected 100% of the time, and we wear busy, tired, and multi-tasking productivity as a badge of honor. We are not in control of our chaos. A quick test of how connected you are is “Do you put your phone to bed or does your phone put you to bed?” If news, email, social...
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Beautiful Things: Have Fun | Faith in Five
If we are honest, we aren’t great at having fun as adults. When we work, we’re serious. When we are at home, we are serious (and tired). When we are at church, we are serious. Because we are calendars are so full of commitments and working hard, we often don’t have time to relax, play games, and...
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Beautiful Things: Yes And | Faith in Five
Life is full of exciting opportunities and possibilities, but it is also full of hard and difficult things. Unfortunately, we often focus on the hard and difficult things with cautions and limitations that short us on what we could be experiencing or accomplishing. There is a big difference…
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Beautiful Things: Let Go and Listen | Faith in Five
There are a lot of things in this world that we don’t understand. We might be able to at some level explain physiologically how the body converts food into energy, but do we really understand how the body is programmed to do so? We can know how the brain works or explain how the eye translates…
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Beautiful Things: Smell the Roses | Faith in Five
Sometimes we get super busy, overwhelmed, and over committed. Unfortunately, this leads to a lack of value and meaning in our lives. Our FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) actually leads to missing out. We just go and go and go trying to out run whatever it is we are scared of missing out on. The big...
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Beautiful Things: Falling Down | Faith in Five
When kids learn to walk we celebrate and cheer them on when they fall down to encourage them to keep trying. But at some point in our development, we start behaving as if falling down in the worst thing that could happen to us. We believe this so deeply that we start celebrating not falling which...
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Beautiful Things: Love in Buckets | Faith in Five
There is a symbiotic relationship between us and others. Typically we believe in things like “you get what you give” and “you reap what you sow.” However, in this equation there is 1 key missing step prior to stepping into a give and take with this world and people in this world…we have to have...
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Beautiful Things: Be You | Faith in Five
If you think about the human body, it is made up of a whole bunch of different parts with a variety of purposes to function at its best. No part is necessarily more important than another, and yet each has certain strengths and weaknesses. In the body, we are typically comfortable with a certain...
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Marriage Mantra: Not About You | Faith in Five
Pet peeves are a fascinating thing. Most of the time we see them as things that other people do that are wrong. However, most of the time pet peeves reveal something inside of us that might be wrong…our selfish and self-focused nature. Pet peeves drive us crazy inside our closest relationships,...
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Beautiful Things: People | Faith in Five
As humans we struggle with authenticity, vulnerability, and courage, but one of the things that draws this out of us and allows us to step into these places are the people in our lives. If you want to learn more about how this impacts your faith, or if you’re making a donation to our ministry,...
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Marriage Mantra: Marriage Math | Faith in Five
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Marriage Mantras: Break Routine | Faith in Five
Have you ever driven to work and not remember how you got there? Or on a weekend started to head to work because it’s what you do most days when you leave the house? Of course you have…it’s what our brains are designed to do. We establish habits and routines on regular and mostly mundane things…
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Marriage Mantras: Plan Daily | Faith in Five
When you were in school were you ever called to the principal’s office or asked by a teacher to stay after class? As an adult have you ever been called into your supervisor’s office? We all know “that” feeling and over the years have come to realize that this is usually not a good thing…the only...
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Marriage Mantras: Find Good | Faith in Five
We all have a friend or two who always makes us feel good when are around them. We can call them to catch up and check in on them, but they always seem to be able to turn the tables and make us feel like a Rockstar. We are drawn to people like this because they make us feel good. They fill our…
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Marriage Mantras: Marathon | Faith in Five
When we start something there is always a lot of excitement and plans for greatness. Unfortunately, the excitement is typically short lived, and we start to fade. Whether it’s training to run a marathon, a house project, a New Year’s resolution, or even marriage, we start out excited but…
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More Than Words: Love | Faith in Five
Some consider love an act of service. Others see love as a simple action, a choice, or a promise. Anybody who has truly loved can admit that love as hard. Unfortunately, “love” is often misunderstood! I love my coffee! I love my jeans! I love my dog! I love my wife! How can we equate all of these...
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More Than Words: Breath | Faith in Five
Breathing is something that we very often take for granted. We don’t think about breathing in or breathing out. We just do it. From the day we were born and breathed in our first breath until the day we breath out our last breath, this extremely important function has become automatic. And yet,...
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More Than Words: Light | Faith in Five
When we consider light and the different types of light available to us, we typically view light in two different formats. One type of light is a flashlight which provides a very direct focused beam. Flashlights help us find things we might be searching for. But the second type of light is an...
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Practice Makes Perfect: You Are What You Eat | Faith in Five
MMMMM...Food. So much of our lives are centered around food. We gather to eat, we schedule around it, we make lists of favorite places in favorite cities, and spend hours making food. Food is awesome, except when it’s not. Sometimes food can control us. To be honest, its not just food. We tend to...
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Practice Makes Perfect: Cool Down | Faith in Five
When scheduling our physical training workouts we often skip the rest day and the cool down. We account for the 30 minutes of cardio, but not the 5 min of cool down. When we are trying to get in shape we would like to think that we can hit it hard 7 days per week and accelerate our progress, but...
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Practice Makes Perfect: The Little Things | Faith in Five
Can you name the best book you’ve ever read? The national bestseller list is always changing and evolving and now it has a long list of categories that give more and more books chances to make the list. It’s clear that books are valuable and that people are reading them regularly. Interestingly...
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Practice Makes Perfect: Training | Faith in Five
The beginning of a new year is always full of newfound ambition. While it’s somewhat cliche to plan to hit the gym more THIS year, we can’t help ourselves but to set some physical training goals year after year. The problem is that getting in physical shape takes more than a few visits to the…
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#gratlist: #dowork | Faith in Five
There are essentially two types of Super Bowl parties. The first type is when everybody brings a dish to pass, and the second is when the whole event is already catered and planned. The way that we show up to each of these are very different. If everyone brings their best dish then everyone will...
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#gratlist: #healthy | Faith in Five
Many of us think about our health journey with a level of enthusiasm that ebbs and flows. We typically make sweeping changes like diets and exercise programs that last 30, 60, or 90 days only to return to past habits at the end of the commitment. What if we could change this? Rather than…
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#gratlist: #bff | Faith in Five
One of the best ways to cultivate an attitude of gratitude is through the people around us. Not only when things are going well, but also when we are going through our hardest times When we think about best friends, we typically think of the good times...the fun we’ve had, the celebrations, the...
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#gratlist: #thefam | Faith in Five
Sustaining an attitude of gratitude is not as simple as figuring out one part of your life. Being mindful of the many coexisting variables in our nuanced lives allows us to create an ongoing spirit of gratefulness. Life is kind of like pieces of a pie, and one of the most significant pieces of…
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#gratlist: #coffeeconvos | Faith in Five
If we made a list of our favorite things, coffee would be on most people’s list. Many of us live for it, we look forward to it, and some of us are even self-proclaimed experts on the subject. One of the nice things about coffee (besides caffeine) is the social aspect of getting together to grab a...
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#gratlist: #nofilter | Faith in Five
There is a recent phenomenon of people taking cold showers at the start of every morning. This trend has been growing in popularity because cold showers can shock you “awake.” By awake, we mean aware of all of our senses, blessings, comforts, etc. It’s very easy to “go through the motions,” but...
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Love Lives Here: The Future | Faith in Five
Letterboards and chalkboards around the house have been a new trend of the past few years. They give us a chance to express ourselves with phrases, quotes, bible verses, and messages to the world. The unique thing about them is that you have to erase one to create another. It’s almost as if we…
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Faith in Five is a weekly devotional designed to discuss practical spiritual concepts in five minutes or less.
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Mark VanDellen
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