Growing in Intimacy with Jesus
Intimacy and abundant life isn’t found in a change of circumstances; it is found in a change of YOU in your circumstances.
What to Do when Your Answer Doesn’t Come
When I hear of someone ringing the bell when their cancer treatment course is finished, I feel a deep-rooted hollowness —we never rang the bell…round after vicious round of cancer,…
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Needing to be in Control of People and Things
I was sweating as I worked to spread a layer of mulch that my younger boys and I had hauled from a huge pile dumped for us by a tree…
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Contentment
Philippians 4:11-13“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and…
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A Trustworthy God
Psalm 139:1-6, 9-10, & 17-18O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.3 Thou compassest my path…
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God is Good…Good is God
When I am in seasons of great heaviness, persecution, or distress it is so easy to focus and major in on the pain, its source, and its relentless grip on…
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“Suffering is Never for Nothing”–Elisabeth Elliot
“Let God use your pain as your pulpit.” Is a statement I have heard verbalized often. It causes me to regularly ponder. More than anything, I long to use the…
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Leash Training for Life
We have a sweet dog. Having never owned a dog in my life, I have had to learn how to train a dog. I had no idea one needed to…
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Fear of Man…I’m Afraid
Let me be transparent, I am afraid to begin this blog. Last year, this very week, a man of position and respect in our church told me in response to…
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