By Jennifer L. Griffith Betsy approached the Western Wall in Jerusalem clutching a piece of paper in her hand. On it she’d scribbled the names of people she would pray for at the “Wailing Wall.”
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Jessica Years 01, Month 1 – September 2011
There is a sick baby, wailing at the top of his lungs next to me, and the stench of human sweat surrounds me. I am overwhelmed. This is not my universe. I sit downtown Nashville,
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“I’ve never heard God’s voice so why do so many people say they’ve heard Him” God’s voice is very distinguishable but most people still claim they’ve never heard it. God doesn’t speak like we
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No one has ever offended me as much as I have offended God. And HE has forgiven me of it all.
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“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.” — Madeleine L’Engle When
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By Miranda Lewis. It’s sort of ironic that I’ve often blogged about the weather in Oklahoma—the beauty of the wheat, the spectacular sunsets, and the fury of the wind. I’ve talked about how I want
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Every head turns to the light when a birthday cake enters the room. Whether it’s a family room with all the lights out or a group of strangers in the corner booth of a restaurant,
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When I first became a Christian, I had no idea what my faith really meant. I held the worldly way of thinking that is so prominent in today’s society. I believed that each person’s beliefs,
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by Matthew Kreider Word by word, time stretches across the nouns and verbs of my day, like a long, linear blue ribbon from the edge of a cursor, tentatively highlighting the scattered, choppy fragments of
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When Brian Calley was asked by Rick Snyder to be his running mate in Michigan’s race for governor in 2010, he probably thought he was undertaking the biggest challenge of his life. After all, at
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