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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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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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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Christine’s story is bittersweet and beautifully full of faith challenges. “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not
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