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"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "...
As a mother of adults who have traveled the deconstruction journey, I have up close and personal experience with the deconstruction of faith that is happening in our world today.
As a mother of indep...
It was March 8, 2011. I'd just come home from having a colonoscopy. The weather was cruddy, and my heart was heavy.
I was having the colonoscopy because a normal follow up in treatment for colon can...
Where did we get it wrong?
When were we taught that prayer was a sweet little thing we do when we get too old to do the other "things?"
Maybe it started in 2nd grade Sunday School when we were seat...
I asked my granddaughter, River, how she would define peace. She said, "It's not war. It's not when people are angry and fighting."
She defined peace by pointing to its' opposite. If we live more li...
As I write this blog post we are in the first week of advent. During the first week of advent we focus on...
HOPE
I found a great definition of hope online:
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that...
This is part 4 of what I've decided now is a 5-part series on learning how to hear the voice of God. As I was preparing to publish this post, I came across this youtube message by pastor Mike Todd. In...
This is the 3rd part of a 4 part series on hearing the voice of God. Prayer is such a marvelous mystery! Just the thought that the God of the Universe invites us into relationship with Him where we ca...
If there were anything I'd love to be able to gift Jesus followers with, it would be the ability to hear God's voice loud and clear. What if we could rise up out of the baptismal waters and suddenly h...
The Bible teaches us that God has plans for our lives, and that one of the privileges of our position in Christ is to release those plans through our prayers. Consider what Jesus said about the will ...
When I was 12 years old, I heard that when we prayed, we were supposed to go into our closet and pray to God who sees us in that secret place. So I got myself a cardboard box, covered it with a piece ...
So in keeping with last week's blog post, God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It, I found myself pondering the promises God's given us in His Word. I was in Largo, Florida visiting with our Pray...
