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FLESH & FAITH

Fighting the Flesh, Keeping the Faith

Real stories of failures in the flesh and triumphs of faith.

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When my flesh and my heart fail, God is my portion and my strength. Psalm 73:26
This Psalm has inspired me in many ways.  It's helped me deal with my lifelong anxieties and it's inspired the name for my blog.  Flesh and Faith is a place where I want to share with you some funny, crazy, and very real stories of my fleshly failures and some heartwarming, inspiring, and very real stories from my faith in a faithful God. Not sure about you, but my flesh fails often but my faith is strong. My hope is that these stories inspire, encourage you and bring glory to God.  I pray that my words help you to fight the flesh, build your faith and find your strength and portion in God.

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The Real Me

This is me in the flesh.  I'm messy, unorganized, forgetful.  I'm human, I'm weak, I'm fleshly and I fail.  But for all of my fleshly failures I have a faith that is way bigger than a mustard seed and can move mountains.  I have a faith that is confident in what I hope for and assured of what I do not see.  I am a Christian, child of God, wife, mom, daughter, sister, aunt, friend and secretary of our local small town church. My husband James and I have been married for 17 years and counting, if he continues to lavish me with good things.  We are raising two daughters to love and serve the Lord.  One teen and one pre-teen.  Lord help us. They are beautiful and dad is a great shot. The oldest, Ashlin is a future volleyball pro, if there is such a thing and my youngest Jamie is a drama queen who can sing and perform like nobody's business.   We strive to love and serve the Lord together, but we may not all end up at the dinner table at the same time each night, because that is our life.  But when we're together and having fun we can laugh until our sides split.  I have a crazy silly and sometimes cheesy sense of humor and I tend to think way outside the box. I'm an avid Oklahoma Sooners fan, "Boomer Sooner" and have an odd obsession with baby groot and Abraham Lincoln. This is me in all my not so glorious glory. I hope you can relate.

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2020 Vision

  • Writer: Tina Punneo
    Tina Punneo
  • Apr 4, 2020
  • 2 min read

We had high hopes for 2020.

So many memes and quotes about how our vision of the future looked bright. 2020 means perfect vision, but somehow things are looking a little blurry and skewed this year.


2020 has people walking around blindly, ironically.

The class of 2020 will not be turning tassels in May. Business’ doors are closed, the doors of homes across America are shut and locked, welcome mats kicked aside, socializing at a distance, people’s livelihoods gone, jobs lost, an economy dying, people dying, sick and scared.


This is not a perfect vision.


In these times, we have to stop and reflect on something that is given to us in the Word.

We walk by Faith not by Sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7


Suddenly the vision has changed. If we‘re walking by faith things look much brighter, clearer and much more hopeful.


If we’re having trouble seeing hope for this year maybe we’re looking at it all wrong. Maybe we need to put on our faith glasses and change how we see.

I‘ve had my doubts and fears, I’ve been having trouble seeing the end game here. But I have to stop and remember who holds the future and who knows the outcome of it all. Jesus‘ vision is just as perfect as the life He lived on this earth. His vision of the future is for us live with Him in eternity.

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

‭‭John‬ ‭14:3‬ ‭NIV‬‬


“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:18‬ ‭NIV‬‬


Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Focus on these truths from God‘s Word. What a great vision of the future! Don’t let your hindsight be 2020, look ahead now to a perfect vision of our future in Christ.



 
 
 

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