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How do you grieve the unfaithfulness of loved ones?
How do you grieve the unfaithfulness of loved ones? A friend, community… you name it…? 💔 Good memories are painful… they haunt you… you don’t know what to do with them. How do you grieve over a once faithful but then turned hurtful inner community…? How do you grieve over the betrayal of a small circle within…
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Relationship, Not Religion
Update: My heart is full! I’m slowly gaining strength physically as my nervous system heals since my doctor ordered me to leave my place of ministry for peaceful rest back in June 2016. Though, last week I was in bed 3 days and one was in the house with all blinds drawn, ear plugs in…
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My Sensitivity and Burden Bearing
As I journeyed forward from burnout in ministry a few years ago, I began to learn more about my spiritual sensitivity and discernment, a gift and a curse at times. Definitely a gift the enemy hates. Years ago, I read an article from Eric H Janzen on Burden Bearing and it opened my eyes. Yet,…
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My Vision on Women
One morning I woke up with a vision of a family who is well known and loved within their community caring for orphans and widows and the homeless, but behind closed doors the daughters are mistreated. Several older daughters left the family to find freedom. The next daughter in line spoke up against the mistreatment,…
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Quit the Program?
Why do we think we need a program? (How to Live Life) Basic Christian Living 101: Our minds are so programmed to be in a program…for everything. (Thank you Henry Ford for your assembly line model…) We go to an education program, we go to a fitness program, we go to a sports program… we…
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God’s Victorious Love – Easter Sunday
Love’s Journey to the Cross – Lent Reflections Easter Sunday – God’s Victorious Love 1 Corinthians 5; Ephesians 3: Romans 10 Today is the day we celebrate God’s victorious love! We have been counting down the days of Lent towards Easter Sunday. Today, we reflect and celebrate… Jesus is no longer in the grave! …He lives!…
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By this…, everyone will know!
Awesome excerpt from Tammy Strait… We were made for community. We were made to live our actual lives in community with other people. People who’ve gone before us, stand beside us, and come up behind us. If we’re going to run this race keeping our eyes on Jesus, it’s not going to happen by accident…
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What is Lent? (Journey to the Cross)
How will you journey this Lenten season? First the background… The 6 weeks before Easter is called the “Lenten Season”. It’s a time to focus on Christ’s sacrifice of death for our life. Because Jesus rose from the dead, we too can rise and enjoy heaven forever when we put our trust in Him. LENT…
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Comparison Steals our Joy
I was asked to prepare a talk on comparison for teens and twenties. Here’s what I learned. (Sources at the bottom.) Comparison washes away God’s plan for us and sidetracks us with someone else’s journey. Questions to ponder: When you play games, are you a good loser? How do you handle winning? Have…
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Friendship
I’m pondering God’s words on friendship… (I made these notes several years ago. I can’t recall the source and did a search. Please post a link if you can find the original source besides the Word of God…) True and Lasting Friendship Can Occur Suddenly 1 Samuel 18:1–3 After David had finished talking with Saul,…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 