Keeping Your Marriage Strong

Here is another installment featuring some “womanly wisdom” from various ladies from our home church. Though these dear ladies have been married for varying lengths of time, each one has exemplified …

Rain

The room slowly darkens. The morning sun has been shrouded with a cloak of impending precipitation packaged in a darkening cloud overhead. The leaves on the trees begin to stir. …

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The Significance of Remembrance

Growing up I loved holidays. It meant getting together with my cousins and seeing my Grandparents. My Nana loved holidays as well she always tried to make them special especially …

To Love Their Husbands

We have been looking at what the older women are to teach the younger women, found in Titus 2:3-5:“The aged women likewise that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, …

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Jesus, Draw Me Ever Nearer

It was one of “those” days. We were all hot, cranky, and done with school… except we weren’t. At the moment, none of us were interested in just how many …

Failing Upwards

I sat at my desk and blew a pesky strand of hair out of my eyes. My cheeks were heated and I looked carefully in the reflection of my computer …

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Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

Today I had to go to my chiropractor. I went into the room where I was directed and was told she’ll be in in a few minutes. So I waited …

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Get More into God’s Word;
Get More out of God’s Word!

I was recently asked to author articles for this column “Books to Grow By,” which wonderfully coincides with the beginning of a new year. Several of the top books that …

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Hormonal Humdingers

Let’s state the obvious… our weight and eating habits are affected by our hormonal cycle. It’s not “crazy” to crave certain foods at certain times. It’s not a “coincidence of …

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Upon This Rock…

Upon this rock, I sit. Lacking much glamour and comfort, I must admit. Listening to tranquil sounds of nature with delight. Elegant is the far extreme yet what a beautiful …

Thoughts from Exodus

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD …

Peace in My Heart

Friday morning my alarm went off and my mind began to calculate when the kids might wake up and how long I would have to shower, read my Bible, drink …

For Such a Time as This

Going through old cookbooks from places like Germany or the British Isles, you can clearly see differences in their recipes than countries of, for example, Italy, Spain, or Greece. Though …

Cold

In the cast of the floodlight of the dark morning hours, the snowflakes descend lightly, haphazardly toward the hardened soil. No precipitation can penetrate its diamond surface now. Ten thousand …

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Beauty in Weakness

“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”2 Corinthians 12:10Seeking to find …

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Cultivating a Daily Time with the Lord

This year, for 2022, this column will include some “womanly wisdom” from various ladies from our home church. Though these dear ladies are of different ages and at different seasons of …

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The Ministry of Encouragement

“But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him…”Deuteronomy 3:28Encourage: To give courage to; to give or increase confidence or success; to inspire with courage, spirit, or strength of mind …

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Great Is HIS Faithfulness!

As we begin this New Year 2022, our thoughts look back at the past almost 2 years of this new reality—lockdowns, restrictions, hand sanitizer, social distancing, masks, vaccines, sickness, death, …

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Change

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and …

Is There Not a Cause?

Is there not a cause? Should our faith not spill over into every area of our life? Is health care exempt? I am asking these questions, not as a sinless …