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Before and After
BEFORE.
Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory. I wake to a quiet house, kiss the husband, take care of necessities, pour a cup. Sit with book and journal, thought and prayer, silence. Most days begin bowing my heart, if not my body, before my Father.
Breakfast.
Conversation, laughter over frozen waffles. Background music, enjoyed together. Or the rush and tumble of everyone…
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Now seems like a great time to revisit "DO NOT FEAR."
Now seems like a great time to revisit “DO NOT FEAR.”
Considering that March 2020 was 2 years long, it’s not surprising that Spring 2018 seems like a million years ago. At the time, I was in the middle of a long, hard season, facing a lot of unknowns. I survived that season in part by taking a long, hard look at the Bible’s most repeated command: Do Not Fear.
I took everything I learned from that study and turned it into a devotional. I thought now…
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For the hurting on Good Friday
Extraordinary circumstances can bring the best out of people, true. But they can also bring out the worst. I am not at my best.
I’ve had several conversations with friends and neighbors hurting because of the choices of others who seem to be at their worst. Spouses and partners. Parents. Children. Bosses, businesses, landlords. Customers, coworkers, fellow shoppers, Facebook friends. Politicians.…
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A Simple Advent Celebration for Groups or Families
A Simple Advent Celebration for Groups or Families
I wasn’t raised celebrating Advent (or even going to church on Christmas Eve), but I’ve found Advent to be tremendously meaningful over the past 10 + years. I love focusing intentionally on Jesus throughout the month of December, both personally and with my family.
Family devotionals have never really been our thing. But I try the hardest during advent, and that’s the only time we’ve really made…
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Is Jesus your Cheerleader?
Is Jesus your Cheerleader?
I’ve written over the past few weeks about God with us and in us. I’ve never spoken to a group of women for whom the idea of intimacy with God, that kind of closeness, wasn’t scary for some, if not most.
So today we’re talking about one last promise. I’ve betrayed my English Major roots and themed everything I’ve written this month around PREPOSITIONS. We have WITH, and we have IN. Our last…
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Why isn't the promise of God-With-Us (Emmanuel) in the New Testament? (Don't worry, it's good news!)
Why isn’t the promise of God-With-Us (Emmanuel) in the New Testament? (Don’t worry, it’s good news!)
God is WITH ME. I’m hanging on tight to that promise.
HE IS WITH US. That’s good news, but it isn’t the end of the story.
In this season I feel God inviting me deeper.
When I searched the Bible and pulled a long list of God’s WITH US promises, I saw that they are all over the Bible… Until you hit the end of the Gospels.
Then you don’t see “WITH YOU” promised again until it’s fulfilled in the…
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Hanging on to the promise: God with us
Hanging on to the promise: God with us
God is WITH us. This is gospel, this is good news.
We invite people to become Christians. And we’ve hopefully responded to that invitation ourselves. But do we live the truth that believing Jesus is just the beginning?
Trusting Christ opens the door to a life WITH Jesus. John says, “THIS Is eternal life, that they may KNOW YOU, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
What…
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Do we need to ask God to "be with us"?
I’ve rarely prayed in a group where SOMEONE hasn’t asked God to “be with us”, I’ve prayed it myself. And it can’t be wrong, since Paul prays it: Now the God of peace be with you all. (Rom15:33, also 16:20, 24, end of many of his letters) But I try to catch myself, I try not to pray this anymore, because I don’t know that we have to ask God to be with us. We can thank Him that He IS with us. He’s already promised that He is.
I’ve rarely prayed in a group where SOMEONE hasn’t asked God to “be with us”, I’ve prayed it myself. And it can’t be wrong, since Paul prays it: Now the God of peace be with you all. (Rom15:33, also 16:20, 24, end of many of his letters)
But I try to catch myself, I try not to pray this anymore, because I don’t know that we have to ask God to be with us. We can thank Him that He IS with us. He’s…
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Do we need to ask God to "be with us"?
Do we need to ask God to “be with us”?
I’ve rarely prayed in a group where SOMEONE hasn’t asked God to “be with us”, I’ve prayed it myself. And it can’t be wrong, since Paul prays it: Now the God of peace be with you all. (Rom15:33, also 16:20, 24, end of many of his letters)
But I try to catch myself, I try not to pray this anymore, because I don’t know that we have to ask God to be with us. We can thank Him that He IS with us. He’s…
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How I am trying to care for the Environment (#Write31Days)
How I am trying to care for the Environment (#Write31Days)
I originally called this post “How Christians Can Care For The Environment.” Grand but misleading, it makes me sound like an expert when what I really am is someone who has taken some teensy baby steps, and is looking for encouragement and incentive to do more to take care of the earth.
I can’t remember exactly when I started to care about the environment (possibly the season when I became less…
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Christians should care more about...The Environment (#Write31Days)
Christians should care more about…The Environment (#Write31Days)
I became a Christian in a wonderful Texas church with a firm stance on the end times: Jesus is going to rapture His church, beginning 7 years of tribulation during which the earth will be purged of evil, and after which He’ll establish the Millennial Kingdom bringing in a new heaven and a new earth.
I stopped fighting about end times theology a long time ago, but I feel pretty strongly about one…
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Christians should care more about... (Write 31 Days)
Christians should care more about… (Write 31 Days)
Today I asked Facebook, “What is one thing Christians don’t care about, that they should? (Or an issue that, because they are Christians, people should care more about…)”
My Facebook friends are proving themselves to be the most thoughtful, considerate, and reasonable corner of the internet. And making me wish that people from the various seasons of my life could meet in real life.
I am…
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Love Drives Fear Away {Free Devotional: No Fear}
Updated to add: As promised, I've compiled everything from the No Fear Devotional Series into a PDF: NO FEAR: A 14 Day Devotional. Click here to get your (FREE) copy!
Updated to add: As promised, I’ve compiled everything from the No Fear Devotional Series into a PDF: NO FEAR: A 14 Day Devotional. Click here to get your (FREE) copy!
So far 2018 has had more than enough change for me: I’ve graduated a kid from high school, registered another for middle school, quit one job and started another. Every time my youngest son sits on my lap, I know it could be…
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Love Drives Fear Away {Wrapping up the No Fear Study}
Updated to add: As promised, I've compiled everything from the No Fear Devotional Series into a PDF: NO FEAR: A 14 Day Devotional. Click here to get your (FREE) copy!
Updated to add: As promised, I’ve compiled everything from the No Fear Devotional Series into a PDF: NO FEAR: A 14 Day Devotional. Click here to get your (FREE) copy!
So far 2018 has had more than enough change for me: I’ve graduated a kid from high school, registered another for middle school, quit one job and started another. Every time my youngest son sits on my lap, I know it could be the…
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Audio Books for your SUMMER ROAD TRIP {Update!}
Audio Books for your SUMMER ROAD TRIP {Update!}
As we head into summer vacation season, I regularly get asked for audiobook recommendations, entertaining books to listen to on long drives.
Last summer I shared audio books the whole family will love (click here to see a very long list of books people of all ages will enjoy.) I somehow failed to mention the Wrinkle in Time series, maybe I thought I’d talked about it enough online since I…
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Love Drives Fear Away {Wrapping up the No Fear Study}
So much in our lives tempts us to look at obstacles, at our lack, at the things we fear. And God invites us to look to Him, to look to love. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." (1 John 4:18)
So far 2018 has had more than enough change for me: I’ve graduated a kid from high school, registered another for middle school, quit one job and started another. Every time my youngest son sits on my lap, I know it could be the last. I updated my resume and interviewed for a job for the first time since the 1990s. I let go of work and ministry that have been a part of my life for longer than my…
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Ree Reads: May Book Reviews
Ree Reads: May Book Reviews
I’m reading 9-10 books a month these days, well on my way to reaching 100 books in 2018 (want to read more? Try these tips!) With so many books to cover, I decided to make these reviews shorter, or only review the real winners each month. I’ll have to start next month, because May was ALL WINNERS. Non-fiction wise, I have a refreshingly different Christian book, a Pulitzer Prize winning…
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