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I Need You to Be Okay Without Me

June 14, 2022 Janet Beagle Blog, Fire Starters
Dog sleeping

This post is about my dog. And about so much more than my dog. It’s also about me, and possibly you, too. When the pandemic hit, I was one of the lucky ones. Through a

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Seeing Beyond the Obvious

April 2, 2022 Martin Wiles Fire Starters

What I saw didn’t always match reality. I saw the Facebook post. The daughter of a friend I had known for more than thirty years informed her Facebook friends that her mom had contracted Covid

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God Captures Our Attention to Offer Hope

September 17, 2020 Norma Gail Fire Starters, God's Sovereignty, Grief, hope

Sometimes God captures our attention and reveals His mighty power, the compelling evidence of who He is. September 29th reminds me of a time when God gained the attention of hundreds of people. So that

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In the Light of Change

October 30, 2018 Susan Lower Focus on the good, inspire a fire

Death rears its head in many forms. The recent shooting in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill district hit a little too close to home. Last year, it was Las Vegas and the other numerous places. But most

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I’d Choose Him

May 16, 2018 Janet Morris Grimes Family, Father to the Fatherless, Featured, Fire Starters, Relationships

I have the distinct advantage in this. Since I lost my own father when I was a baby, I get to choose. I spent my whole life watching Daddies in action, studying them to determine what characteristics I’d most need in a father.

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Death Does Not Have the Final Word

April 4, 2017 Sandy Kirby Quandt Blog, Fire Starters

It started last year on Easter Sunday with the death of a very dear friend in Maryland; a man I’d known for forty-four years. Within weeks of his death, another special friend in Florida died.

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The Resurrection: what it means and what it doesn’t.

March 27, 2016 Susan Stilwell Blog, Devotions

This weekend we celebrate the unfathomable: the Son of God’s sinless and selfless life on earth, His sacrifice and substitutionary death for our sin, and His defeat of death, hell and the grave. His resurrection

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The Lesson of the Hearse

June 11, 2014 Janet Morris Grimes Blog, Faith, Fire Starters, Relationships, Testimony

by Janet Morris Grimes It slowed to a stop in front of us, parking in our usual spot beside the mailbox. I couldn’t breathe. My daughters sobbed in each other’s arms in the back seat.

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Pawpaw’s Hands: About His Father’s Business

August 5, 2013 Janet Morris Grimes Faith, Relationships

I first met my father-in-law when I was twelve. I entered the church foyer for the first time and noticed a most gentle man who greeted everyone with a hug. With a pat on the back,

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Rites of Sting

March 14, 2013 Will Schmit Faith
Death's Sting

I ain’t dead yet, so I have no authority to speak on the subject. I take it from the Word that death has lost it’s sting, but in the past few weeks I’ve seen sudden

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Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” — Hebrews 13:5-6 (NIV)

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