Tag: Faith
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Living by Trust
The gatherings are behind us now, the lights are dimming, the tree is coming down. Now what? For many days leading up to Christmas, we’re busy with decorating, cooking, and wrapping gifts, and now it seems the world just stopped spinning. Now there’s a hush, a lull hanging in the air, days in our minds…
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Living by Reflection
This Christmas season we pause and reflect on the birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world, born a baby, yet a King. He came from humble means, born on a silent night in the city of Bethlehem, traveling with His mother and father on a donkey to a cold, dark cave of sorts, wrapped…
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The Spirit of God Within Us
As we are approaching Christmas Day, our thoughts and our intentions reflect upon the manger and the birth of Christ, and how beautiful it was. During this season we watch the Christmas movies, we look at manger scenes and Christmas lights around our community, and we ponder the miraculous virgin birth of our Lord and…
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Living by Surrender
Mary, the mother of Jesus. A young girl, highly favored. Chosen by God. In Mark 1, we read every advent season of this young girl in a desert place devoted to God with no apparent promise other than a future marriage to a young man named Joseph. An angel appeared to Mary one night, telling…
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Peace & Gratitude in Chaos
The month of November is typically a time when we specifically focus our attention on gratitude. Afterall, it is the month when we celebrate Thanksgiving. What about when our “normal” is completely upside down? How can we practice gratitude when life is not great? Many of us think of gratitude in terms of profound life…
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Autumn
My favorite time of the year, no question. The colors of the leaves, the crisp cool air, the excitement of holidays to come. Most of all, it’s the feeling of contentment that I get each year. Hard to explain why exactly, but I know it has to do with hot days being over, windows being…
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Rise & Choose
RISE AND CHOOSE I recently was blessed to attend a one-day women’s conference, SOUL CARE-RISE, which ministered to my heart in ways I didn’t realize I needed. Dry-Bones and Ezekial 37: 1-14, were where we started and as the day progressed I came to realize that the challenges of the past year in several areas…
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