What we learned can be forgot, what we know dismissed. Who we are is debatable, why we’re here the cosmic question. Whom we love, and who loves us, is the suring thing, the truth we
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Stirred But Never Shaken – A Holiday Cup of Hot Chocolate
Welcome in the holiday season. Ring the bells. Put up the Christmas trees. Fill the yards with blow-up sleighs and giant reindeer. Eleven months have passed and the runner is sliding into home base. It
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Matthew 6:8b-For your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. (ESV) Summertime in South Carolina means afternoons so hot you start sweating before you get one flip-flop out the door. And this summer,
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On the last morning of the the 11 month mission trip I recently returned from, I went on a hike with some friends down to the beach and through the mountainous jungle of Port St.
Read moreGrace in the wait
Patience is a virtue; it’s just not one of mine. I’ve always hated to wait. As a little girl, the days and weeks before Christmas tortured me. My fifteenth birthday started the 365-day countdown to
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I’m a heretic. Might as well get it out in the open. I don’t believe we’re in the End Times. I think God’s just getting started. If a day is like one thousand years to
Read morePray. And Go.
Sometimes we are the answer to our own prayers. There is a scene in the third installment of the Harry Potter series that I love. Harry and his friends are attacked by foul creatures known
Read moreThe Power of an Invitation, by Gloria Ashby
A former missions director, she embraced her new mission field. She entered last, rolling her walker behind the two residents she gathered along the journey from her apartment to the chapel where our class met. I welcomed my Andrew. Her real name is Jean, but I call her Andrew, after the disciple who brought others to Christ.
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I’d like to think that America wasn’t always dividing by party affiliation, but I suspect what’s happening in our country today is nothing new. Or, I should say, what happened yesterday is nothing new.
Read moreLet No One Despise Your Youth
Sandy Kirby Quandt Of ten times children and teens are treated as if they are unimportant to the work of God’s Kingdom. In 1 Timothy 4:12, the Apostle Paul told Timothy not to let anyone
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