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An Unlikely Pair
God supplies our every need, and the Christmas story gifts us with many such examples. I love how He pairs Mary and Elizabeth. A young teen and an aged lady of great faith. Both fulfilling prophecy. Both experiencing pregnancy for the first time. One whose shame of barrenness had haunted her for a lifetime. One…
Read More The Long Wait
“A baby? Now? After all these years?” Her husband gave her a puzzled look as he tried to read her lips. Unable to speak. Unable to hear. He’d been like that ever since Jerusalem. Elizabeth began a nine-month game of charades. Zechariah’s eyes followed her every move. He had frightened her when he first arrived,…
Read More Christmas: Surviving and Thriving
Now that we’ve survived Thanksgiving and Black Friday, let’s turn our attention to Christmas holiday planning. For years Christmas was not my holiday of choice. Sandwiched between two of my children’s birthdays, Christmas formed the daunting middle miles of a December marathon. Take heart, we can survive December and even enjoy it, but it may…
Read More How Not To Be A Turkey
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” C. S. Lewis “Incognito,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “with your true identity kept secret; with one’s identity fully concealed.” I love C.S. Lewis, but I have a bone to pick with the quote…
Read More Pulling the Leash
Lacey. Ten pounds of golden fur—soon to be sixty. We had an older retriever too, Luke, my constant companion and running partner. Soon Lacey was big enough to join us. And here the problems began. I had a wonderful tool that links two dog collars permitting me to have only one leash. At this point,…
Read More Get Started: Moving to Action
“Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” (James 1:22 NIV) The parable of the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:31-46) gives us a list of needs: hunger, thirst, sickness, shelter, clothes, imprisonment. Turn on the news and we’re hit with more. Natural disasters in foreign countries. Fundraisers…
Read More Titus 2: A Tribute to My Grandmother
“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and…
Read More Spiritual Warfare: Building an Arsenal
Navy SEAL’s are required to qualify at an expert level with their weapons. Not only are they more than proficient marksmen, they are also adept at handling a variety of weapons: pistols, rifles, knives. Ephesians 6:17 tells us to “Take up the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word…
Read More Triple D: Daniel and Defilement
“But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.” (Daniel 1:8 NIV) Daniel. A teenager. Yanked from home, family, and country of origin. Dropped into the capital city of the enemy. New name. New language. New life.…
Read More Here at the Wall: Forgiveness
“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. . “(Ephesians 2:13-14 NIV) Walls divide. They separate. And often hurt and a…
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