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12 Apr

Living The RISEN Life

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What are you rising to meet in life?  Is there a new challenge, a new opportunity or a new perspective? Perhaps you’re not feeling like rising much at all.  Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several others faced this question. Very early, on the third day after...
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05 Apr

Finding Faithful In The Details

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I started this Lenten focus on faithfulness on Ash Wednesday.  I was overwhelmed with details about many things.  It was a sure sign I had an under-appreciation for the faithfulness of God.  So like any writer worth their next key stroke, I sought to explore what I had sorely missed. I...
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29 Mar

Finding Faithful In A Difficult Diagnosis

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“Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous,But the Lord rescues him from them all.” – Psalms 34:19 AMP Colleen’s story: When I can’t figure out the cause of a problem it’s frustrating. Particularly when the cause needs to be identified in order to find a solution. My guest this week can relate....
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22 Mar

Finding Faithful When Resources Run Out

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I continue to be blessed by my friends and fellow bloggers who’ve shared their stories during the Lenten focus on faithfulness series.  Now it’s my turn to share… By the fall of 2008, the nation’s banking system began to spin out of control. Many were affected by widespread job loss, the...
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08 Mar

Finding Faithful in The Wounds of Our Past

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I’m pleased to welcome my friend and fellow blogger, Jelise Ballon, to our Lenten focus on faithfulness. On her blog at neitherheightnordepth.com, Jelise bares her soul as she beholds God’s love. As I read her words, I encounter His love too. Thank you Jelise for sharing your story on finding...
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01 Mar

A Lenten Focus on Faithfulness

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A Lenten Focus on Faithfulness
Today is Ash Wednesday. It signals the start of Lent, a 40 day reflection of Christ’s journey towards the Cross and to His Resurrection. The word Lent comes from the English word meaning “springtime.”  It nudges us to awaken or renew our understanding of God’s grace in Christ and deepen...
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21 Feb

When Timing Isn’t Everything

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Timing is everything. It’s a familiar saying, but is it true? You decide. Meet Joseph (again or for the first time). God gave him two dreams showing his inevitable rise. But in the midst of discovering his destiny, he had non-stop family drama. It begins in Genesis 37. Life was...
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28 Jan

When Afraid Fall Faith Forward

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What do you do when you’re afraid? I tend to flee. In my haste, sometimes I fall.  Once, I landed in a state of emotional upheaval.  Another time I slipped on a pile of unmet expectations — the kind that anticipated success but couldn’t handle failure. But one day grace broke...
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