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You are Invited to a Pity Party

Ever throw a pity party for yourself? [...]

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

As Christians, we need to look honestly at our desires and ask, “Who do I want people to remember Jesus or me?” [...]

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Never Leave Out the ‘BUT’

Few words can change a situation, an attitude, a fact like the word “but” [...]

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Facing Rejection

When the memory of rejection threatens to deaden your faith, lift your eyes past your pain, onto your Father’s face. “Grow in me!” [...]

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Grown-Up Lessons from a Child

Can’t you imagine Jesus motioning for the kids to come to him? I envision the children crawling up on his lap and Jesus laughing and playing with them. Truly, “Jesus Loves the Little Children.” [...]

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The Idol in Your Backpack

If you dump out your backpack you may find many useless and dated items. For days , weeks and even months you have be carrying around unnecessary weight. [...]

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Rebuilding the Broken

“God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives [...]

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Two People Looking in the Same Direction

The adults in your life may give you volumes of “speeches”, trying to share good advice or teach you “a lesson”. But when one of those gems of truth stick in your head for [...]

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A Box of Chocolate Covered Cherries

Do you know the love of God? [...]

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The Seed

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life [...]

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The Devil’s Triple D’s

It is very difficult to battle discouragement [...]

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Roadblocks

You can see God so clearly. You know His will for your life and are obediently traveling in that direction. [...]

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How to Calm an Angry

Not all confrontations can end in peace. Not all godly advice is taken to heart. [...]

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The Pride Test

How big is your ego? [...]

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The Moravian Star Game

Matthew 2One year my husband and I were taking a van full of children to see Christmas lights. Knowing the drive would be long, he suddenly said, “Let’s play a game ! “. Dividing our [...]

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

II Chronicles 20:1-21 King Jehoshaphat was the fourth king of Judah under the divided monarchy. He began reigning at age 35 when his Father Asa died. Jehoshaphat would rule Judah for 25 years. “The Lord [...]

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Fighting for Loss Causes

II Samuel 23:8-16 “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”  -Edmund Edward Burke. I am a huge classic movie fan. One of my favorite actors is Jimmy [...]

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The Giant that Defeated David Or Dating for Dummies

One of the most exciting things in a young persons’ life is when you begin to like someone, only to find out they like you too. [...]

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The Gem of Thanks

“Yes, ma’am” “No, sir.” “Please” and “Thank you.” [...]

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Are you a Complainer, Camper or Climber?

Numbers 11:1-5, Numbers 13:17-33 and Joshua 14:6-14 You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins [...]

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The Fixer

Genesis 12:10-20 Part 2 Lessons from my Toolbox In my attempt to “help” others , I am always trying to make the edges of everyone’s life smoother, gluing and pounding together brokenness, when I find [...]

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When I try to help God Out

I Samuel 19 Part 1 Lessons from my Toolbox I am a helpful person. I can’t help it. I have an uncontrollable urge to help.  If I see a stranger looking frantically for something in [...]

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A Place of Refuge

I John 3:11-24 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Psalm 91:2 In the Old Testament Israel established “Six Cities of Refuge” [...]

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The Necessity of Our Wilderness

Exodus 33 “The journey gets steep.  So steep that some of us give up.  Some stop climbing.  Some just sit down…They have simply stopped walking.  They do not change.  Prayers will not deepen.  Devotion will [...]

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A Tall Glass of Bitterness

Exodus 16:15; 14:21-31 “When we come to the cross of Jesus, everything changes-especially our inner selves. Whatever we are accustomed to in our personalities or character, if those qualities don’t line up with Scripture, they [...]

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Fear Killing Faith

Exodus 13 In the classic film “Gone with the Wind,” there is a scene where Rhett Butler leads a horse-drawn wagon out of the burning city of Atlanta. In one of the grandest movie special [...]

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Moses and His Really Bad Day

Exodus 5-6 “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement.  I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive [...]

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Prospering In Unlikely Places

What was your favorite Bible story when you were little? Mine was “Jonah and the Whale.” [...]

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God’s Glory Revealed

Leading the children of Israel was hard for Moses. He often struggled with his inadequacy and their ingratitude and disobedience to God. [...]

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Come Alongside

If there is one word to describe my relationship with my best friend, it is not “speechless.” [...]

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A Full Plate

To me, this is an excellent looking full plate of food. But honestly, when most of us refer to our plates being full, it looks nothing like this picture. [...]

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Birth of Fear

“And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the [...]

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A Little Sin

If you find yourself caught in traffic on I-74 between Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio; I encourage you to avoid the gridlock and drive through the picturesque town of Greensburg, Indiana. [...]

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The Beast in Me

Ever look around you and get depressed? You are spending your summer working a dead-end job, while other teens hang out at a friend’s pool, sleep until noon and drive all over town [...]

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Unlikely Heroes

I recently had the once in a lifetime experience of visiting Terry Bison Ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [...]

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One More Time

“One more time” is the cry of every child that was having fun and didn’t want to stop. [...]

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Facing Opposition

When you choose to follow Jesus and surrender to him every area of your life, you will face opposition. [...]