Change
As much as we all resist and dread it; it is an inevitable part of life this side of Glory. We all tend toward the routine, comfortable, and predictable, yet…
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Lessons from the Hebrew Children in Suffering
This year I am listening through the Bible. While I am still in my Bible daily, additionally each day instead of reading straight through my bible, I listen to it…
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God With Us
I have recently finished a Bible study of the book of Habakuk. While the book is quite poetic, walking through it intentionally, I found the book rich with relevance today….
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The Gift of Lament
The first time I was introduced to the idea of lament was during the long season of the grieving process that resulted after the discovery of my husband’s moral failure….
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I Will Take the Cup of Salvation
In Jewish culture, Psalms 113-118 are called the “Great Hallal” and are traditionally sung/read at holy days, but in particular, at Passover. These were the songs on everyone’s mind at…
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Psalm 143: When God seems distant or silent
There is inner struggle; a heaviness on your shoulder. You are longing for God to do something amazing…yet there is a sense of disappointment… it seems God doesn’t hear??…Doesn’t care?…
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Tender Mercies
In the roll of a grief wave my tear-blurred eyes were searching Scripture for that “thread” of hope to cling to while riding the wave…when I landed here: Psalm 145:9…
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When your Life Lies Shattered at Your Feet
Jesus sat in the privacy and intimacy of the Upper Room the very night He was to be arrested. He knelt and washed the feet of the ones who, within…
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Value to Suffering – a Look at I Peter 5
1 Peter chapter 5 begins with a charge to the elder in the church, those saints who have longevity, experience, and maturity in their faith. Verse five continues the thought…
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That I May Know Him
Philippians 3:10“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” My childhood pastor, Dr Jack Hyles,…
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