God’s Hidden Arrangement

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I spent this past weekend assembling a detailed 3D book-nook puzzle, one of those miniature architectural scenes made of dozens upon dozens of tiny wooden pieces. Each piece had been precisely cut with notches so small they were nearly invisible, yet every one fit only in a single location. The instructions required an exact order. […]

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A Christ Centered Christmas

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Each year, “Merry Christmas” is spoken more cautiously, if it is spoken at all. In its place, “Happy Holidays” has become the safer greeting, offered under the banner of politeness, neutrality, and inclusiveness. Just last week, after wishing a gentleman “Merry Christmas” over the phone, he replied with a carefully neutral “Happy Holidays.” These exchanges […]

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Sanctified Journaling

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“Record all special favors, mercies, providences, and experiences.Little do you know the advantages that will redound to your souls upon this.” – Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks I began journaling as a teenager, long before I knew Christ. What began as a class assignment soon became a nightly ritual. I would open my […]

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Cultivating Reverence for the Holiness of God

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Reverence does not grow in the heart by accident. Scripture never treats it as a passing feeling or a heightened emotion that comes and goes with the seasons of the soul. Reverence is the posture formed when the heart sees God as He truly is, and bows beneath the weight of that truth with joy […]

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Anticipating Ruth


Bible Study

I’ve spent the past few days gathering information on Ruth, trying to get a general overview of the book and a feel for the upcoming study. I have been looking forward to this study since we drew it’s name out of the basket. It’s a book I’ve read several times, and read several studies on, […]

08/29/2012

Condemned to Salvation


MorningMeds

 We are condemned to salvation through the Cross of Christ.                            – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Feb. 2nd This one sentence stood out to me as I was reading, “we are condemned to salvation.” Condemned to salvation, it sounded so ironic when I first read it. How can ones salvation be compared to […]

07/11/2012

Exerting A Holy Violence for Heaven


Quotes

I’ve been reading a book called Heaven Taken By Storm by Thomas Watson. Actually, I’ve been listening to it since I am more of an audiobook fan lately then I am reading fan. I still like reading, but it’s been difficult to find the time to read all the books I would like to read […]

05/30/2012

Experiencing God


Quotes

I enjoyed this excerpt or I should say page since it is rather long, from the book, “Love Slaves” by Samuel Brengle. It was something I clipped after reading it and pasted to my journal notes because it reminds me of my own personal revelations of Christ and how I continually return to these special […]

05/02/2012

The Lord as My Shepherd


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“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” – Acts 26:14 According to Webster to goad means to urge with or as if with a goad, to stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick or to provoke, as by constant criticism. 1 Sam.13:21 […]

04/27/2012

Our Never Ending Story


Daily Devotions, MorningMeds

It’s hard to share portions of your life and God’s work in it because each story is like a page torn out from a book. You may get a glimpse, a taste but you can’t see and understand His complete work which intertwines and underlies all the stories in your life together, and then intertwines […]

01/24/2012

Sharing Our Stories


MorningMeds

I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great […]

01/05/2012

The Gift of Gifts


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O SOURCE OF ALL GOOD, What shall I render to Thee for the gift of gifts? Thine own dear Son, begotten, not created, My Redeemer, Proxy, Surety, Substitute, His self-emptying incomprehensible, His infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp. Herein is wonder of wonders: He came below to raise me above, He was born like […]

12/14/2011

Adam, Where Are You?


Devotional, MorningMeds

I have a tendency to get lost. My husband says I have no sense of direction at all. He is right. I can have a map in my hands and still get lost.  Maps are beneficial but once you make a few wrong turns, or if you start off by holding it upside down and […]

10/08/2011

Morning Hymn


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The day does now dark night dispel; Dear Christians, wake and rouse you well, Give glory to God our Lord. Once more the daylight shines abroad, O brethren, let us praise the Lord, Whose grace and mercy thus have kept The nightly watch while we have slept. To Him let us together pray With all […]

09/28/2011