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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Dying to Know You


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We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete – 1 John 1:3-4 Why does John and the other […]

06/01/2010

Graduate


Devotional, Wednesday Woman

Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12:3 Dear Graduate, Wise old King Solomon said there was a time for everything and now a time for release has come. To release the child who has held […]

05/30/2010

Grasping for Eternal Life


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…we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. – 1 John1:2 “As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. But the […]

05/17/2010

Mickey Mouse & Frog Wine


Devotional, Wednesday Woman

The blaring radio alarm jolted me from a deep sleep. Slapping the annoying electronic device wildly in the dark while trying to work free from the entanglement of bedding must have looked like an octopus escaping a fishing net. Finally, quietness was restored and I snuggled back for a few more winks before starting my […]

05/11/2010

Safe Behind Jesus


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Has Jesus split your world into two since he has entered your life?  Has he turned your world completely  upside down? This does tend to be the mark of his presence and of his power when he enters into life.   The earth quakes, the wind tears, the rocks shatter, and the sky thunders at his […]

05/09/2010

New Baby


Devotional, Wednesday Woman

“Fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works…” Psalm 139:14 Heavenly Father, My heart quietly gives thanks to You. I would shout but a whisper of a whimper is all that will come out. All of the sound is bottled up in my throat like a cork. That is what extreme awe does to me. […]

05/04/2010

My Grandmother’s Heart


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  Do you know why I loved my grandmother so much? Because she loved me first! Just as Jesus loved us first! She showed me the unconditional, sacrificial love of Christ! His love was there in her gentle hands. Hands that never harmed me; That touched me and held me with affection and joy. His […]

05/02/2010

No Ordinary Life


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The life appeared ; we have seen it and testify to it , and  we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father  and has appeared to us. –  1 John 1:2 What was it that made Jesus so extraordinary? It was the eternal life he held within him. “In him was […]

04/26/2010

Stillborn


Devotional, Wednesday Woman

For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13 Father, I come to You to celebrate the life of this precious baby girl; a gift from You that did not stay long enough. How my heart longs to hold her, to know her, to watch her grow. But […]

04/25/2010

Jesus is The Beginning


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That Which Was From the Beginning… 1 John 1:1 The Apostle John starts out his letter in 1 John emphasizing both the deity and humanity of Christ together   because we can have no relationship, no fellowship with God, apart from confessing that Christ was indeed the Son of God. This confession, this whole hearted conviction […]

04/19/2010