Hebrews 4, Chapter 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 …
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In the airport, I began the trip up for the wedding by being prayed over by people I didn’t even know. Luda said the Lord had sent her and her family to pray for my healing.
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Families are messy, humans are messy, and marriage is messy. When you enter marriage, you marry another fallen creature whom God has redeemed.
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Can I stop long enough to evaluate what is about to come out of my mouth? Can I allow the Lord to shine his light on the falsehood or harmful interaction pattern that is buried underneath?
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“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be …
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I had a dream! I would create a family exactly like the family of my maternal grandparents. My family would live all around me, nearby so they could visit often. Our home would be filled with laughter. Harmony would reign. …
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My parents just celebrated their 59th anniversary! Quite a milestone! And so, having set the furniture down in Texas and unpacked almost all of the boxes, I’m now making plans to head to Colorado to be with them. My father …
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Twenty-eight years ago in December 1989, I gave birth to our fifth-born child. The temperature plunged to negative twenty, our pipes froze, we found a living python that had been left by a previous tenant of our basement apartment, the …
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Christmas is the season of recalling Emmanuel, God in human flesh, come as a newborn baby to grow into a man who would offer the perfect sacrifice of himself to redeem us from our sins. It’s a sacred season, a …
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We’re smack dab in the middle of a cross-country relocation at this most wonderful time of the year. Every moment is sacred. This is the last time we’ll do this or that family tradition in this place with these people. …
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