Seven months after Hurricane Helene swept through the devastation is still obvious. Yet, so is the opportunity to serve. What Helene couldn’t erase was hope. When we have hope, we can survive storms, rebuild our
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Working In the Power of Jesus’ Spirit
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Have you heard of “taking a mulligan”? Mulligans are most common in golf, although I have also encountered them in shooting sports. A mulligan is a second chance. Sometimes it’s informal. If you get distracted
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The telephone rang at 2:00 a.m. “This is the police department. We’ve picked up a mother and three children. The kids are in pretty bad shape.” Another call, another challenge for healing hurtful hearts and
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“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.” That quote by S A Jefferson-Wright reminds me of God’s Christmas presence during one of our most difficult life storms. “We’ve scheduled your
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IS FORGIVENESS WITHOUT FORGIVING POSSIBLE? A TIME FOR FORGIVENESS I’m looking back at the holidays. It is the day after Thanksgiving and Turkey broth is on the floor. I was in the fridge looking for
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Keep Watch For Christ December 7th of 2018 was hard. If there was ever a time I needed Christ with me, this was it. My dad fell while walking to his car after my children’s
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“Dear God, thank you that I was abused as a child, and that my first marriage ended in divorce and the second in the death of my husband. Thank you that I had cancer, suffered
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“But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God” (Luke 17:15 CSB). **(The following is a fictitious rendering of Luke 17:11-19–The Story of the Ten
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This summer has been a challenging time for me. My youngest child graduated high school at the end of May. Although graduation is a happy occasion, this time of endings is also filled with a
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