When it comes to defining sins, I’m going to stick with God’s definitions. He’s the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, the only One with the right to define the rules.
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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.
When we pray, seek God’s wisdom and inspiration, and write to uplift others, we participate in God’s restorative work. This work is holy.
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Marriage has the potential for great destruction or for great transformation and the healing of a lifetime.
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There is currently no process in place for helping foster care youth who turn eighteen and suddenly find themselves without a home and a support system. What can we do to help?
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Our faith and our core beliefs show when the trials hit. Do we really base our confidence and faith on who God is, or are we still relying on ourselves in some way?
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For the first time in my career as a writer, I’m producing two novels in one year. When I first began writing fiction, no serious author would have considered such a thing. It typically took at least two to five …
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None of us can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. It’s often not until it’s all over that we even begin to understand it the slightest bit.
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I had forgotten that God works in ways that I never even know, nor could possibly even guess, in order to bring about the end result. This gave me heart. I began to pray again.
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We don’t get to take the Faith Seminar and walk out girded and prepared for the rest of our lives before the Lord turns us loose in the world. No. We must learn this lesson as we run the race.
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Do you believe? Now is the time to determine if your faith is real. Now is the time to wrestle with God. This is why these tortuous times come.
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