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How to Write a Biblical Blessing for Your Grandchild
When time comes for the Summer Olympics, my husband enjoys watching track and field. Relays always promise some drama. Why? The handoff. The trickiest part of a relay. Races have been won and lost in this short twenty-meter zone. But the stakes are higher than shiny medals when we’re talking about our faith. No matter how…
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How Lisa Harper Ruined Cinderella For Me
I’ve lost my love for the Cinderella story, and it’s Lisa Harper’s fault. Lisa Harper is a Christian speaker, author, and teacher. I love her because she is soooo authentic. Our women’s group at church was studying her Bible study on the Gospel of Luke. In one video session, she spoke on Cinderella—and forever ruined…
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God’s Love Language: The Blessing of Discipline
This summer I’m on a special four-month program to deal with some health issues. When I started, I asked God to do for me spiritually what I was trying to accomplish physically. Heal and detox. Several weeks in, the spiritual detox began. Thoughts, expectations, and judgments bubbled up like the crude oil on the Beverly…
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How to Have Fun . . . with God
You have let me experience the joys of life and the exquisite pleasures of your own eternal presence. Psalm 16:11 TLB I sat in my tent and read my Bible. Though it was early, the sun was up. Outside, guides banged pots and pans as they prepared breakfast on this, the last day of our Rogue…
Read More Unmanufactured Righteousness: How Not to DIY Good Deeds
“Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.” Romans 10: 3 NIV [emphasis mine] How-tos. DIY. I love hands-on projects. I love learning new things. I love the discovery. I love the control. But when it comes to righteousness, God’s righteousness, all the effort in the…
Read More Permission to Fail: How to Push Past Your Limits
“Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.” 1 Timothy 4:14 NIV It was Test Week at my CrossFit gym and I dreaded it. For several months we lifted weights with a slow count and higher than normal reps. For example, one…
Read More What are You Worth? God’s Take on Your Value
Master craftsmen have signed, stamped, and stitched their marks on their work for years, ensuring their value. Michelangelo’s signature traverses Mary’s sash of his Pieta. Leonardo da Vinci used intertwining knots as his signature (Check Mona Lisa’s bodice.). And God? He placed His imprint on you, His masterpiece. The mark of a master determines the value of a…
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Rootbound: How to Get Untangled
Rootbound plants are wrapped in their own roots. Like an ingrown toenail, growth has gone inward instead of outward. And inward is no place to grow. Roots should spread. Deep and wide. Spiritual roots can bind too. Squeeze. Tighter than duct tape, they can hold us hostage. I felt stuck. For years. Scripture speaks of several…
Read More I Love You with All My . . . Mind?
She stands there, wrings her hands, and taps the spot where her watch is supposed to be. She paces, back and forth, between the basket that should hold the watch when she’s not wearing it and the chest of drawers where she hid it. Mom has dementia. She’d been living in Wichita Falls, and only…
Read More The Spirit’s Flow
Though wind power failed during our winter storm in February, Texans know March winds will more than make up for February’s failures. As a runner, I’m sensitive to the wind. Sometimes I get the gentle nudge of a tailwind. Sometimes the wind swirls and provides much needed cooling. Sometimes it’s a wall, whose force humbles…
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