I’m launching two books this month, the first time I’ve been invited to teach other women in our new church is this weekend, I recently returned from Wyoming, where I had a wonderful week with family, AND we’re with grandkids …
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Raised on the Oklahoma plains in a storytelling family, Melinda now spins tales from her writer's cave in the coastal South. Her faith-filled fiction illustrates our human story, wrestling with our brokenness and the storms that wreak havoc in our lives.
This post first appeared at Seriously Write. Every single one of us is broken. First, as members of Adam’s race, we are all broken by sin. Our sins and resultant weaknesses leak out of us daily throughout our lives, even …
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Hebrews 5-7, Part 6 I awakened long before sunrise and lay staring into the darkness. The lab results from the CT of my heart were devastating, and I now feel like a walking time bomb. How much time do I …
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Returning to Hebrews, Part 5. It happens in the early chapters of Genesis, the story of God’s work of salvation on behalf of mankind barely beginning to be told. Abram, whom God later renames Abraham, has a nephew who has …
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The Lord put people first: loving them, serving them, leading them to salvation, being present with them. Let’s walk in his steps.
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The 7 Mafia Princesses for 7 Brothers series launches today! Find out more here! Today’s post contains all the links and all the information.
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The Lord judges all the thoughts and intentions of our hearts. Yet, he still loves us. Nothing about his passion for us changes.
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Hebrews, Part 3. When we were legalists with long lists of rules to keep and actions to avoid, we thought we had it all figured out. Everyone was beneath us, we were told, as we embarked on a whole new …
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Returning to Hebrews, Part 2 Two weeks ago, we grappled with the significance of the fulfillment of God’s promises through Jesus Messiah and of our need to reflect on him (Part 1). He changes everything. To consider him constantly throughout …
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This special birthday provides a perfect opportunity to address the fact that writers are created by God, woven together in each one of their mother’s wombs with a writer’s bent.
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