Barb Twigg
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2025 Fast Wrap-Up
By LuAnn Wendover and Nickole Meierotto Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 This past week has been an amazing time in the annual corporate fast. When Nickole and I were asked to…
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Day 5 of our Fast: Love is a Verb
By Nickole Meierotto I might be dating myself, or maybe just letting out a bit of my weird, but do any of you remember DC Talk from back in the 90s (late 19th century according to the kids these days)? I used to listen to the album “Free at Last” on repeat and one of…
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Day 4 of Our Fast: When We Ask God ‘Why’?
By Nickole Meierotto Are you a "why?" person? Do you know any "why?" people? Do you have a child in your life who is a "why?" child? I have to confess, I'm a "why?" person. It's more than likely one of my more annoying qualities…I just gotta understand WHY! I have a burning desire to…
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Annual Fast, Day Three: Have You Ever Found Yourself on Autopilot?
By Nickole Meierotto Have you ever found yourself on autopilot? You’re driving home or to work and suddenly you realize you’re there but don’t remember the trip? Or you’re in the middle of a task and then suddenly you’re done and have no recollection of completing the task? Sometimes my life ends up on autopilot,…
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On the Topic of Halloween
SUMites, Ann here! Every year in October, we post about Halloween. I know it is a challenge for many of you. Well, today, I thought I would share a piece of writing on Halloween. It's by British minister, J. John, posted today on Facebook, and I thought it was spot-on. He says —…
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God’s Heavenly Perspective
Ann here! I remember God showing me once, that during my SUM I would grow, grow and grow some more. I would grow until I was so tall and spindly that I would see everything with a heavenly perspective. He said, however, that I would cry a lot of tears as I grow. Oh yes,…
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Our Life Storyline
My friends, Ann here. Ok, so I've got this funny quirk. I do believe it's a quirk God gave me, but sometimes I think God gives us some crazy quirks. Do you have one, I wonder? Anyway… Mine's this: I take especially careful note of the things that happen in my days, and I record…
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Hakma, Tabun, Da’at — The Builder’s Materials
My friends, I am still lingering over Proverbs 24, which encourages us to build our houses with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Sometimes God plants you in a scripture, and you don’t move on from it for a while! Well, that’s the case here. By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;…
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A Mom’s Faith
Hello all! Today's post was delayed due to the global IT outage – Oh dear! But thankfully the blog is up and running again, phew. I have been, once again for a few days, staying at my parents’ house in Oxfordshire, England. Sitting at their dining table yesterday afternoon, I looked up to see my…
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How do I Overcome Feelings of Regret?
Dear SUMites, Ann here. Quite often I’ll receive an email from a reader saying "Help! I am overcome by feelings of regret about having married out of disobedience to God." For these dear ones, it is a truly difficult battle, where they are wrangling deeply with the life they've constructed; and, of course, they cannot…
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Marriage Adventures in France
Hi SUMites! I said I'd share a little of the marriage adventures we've been having while in France. It's been a funny little time. Being here for a month in this rented house, with few responsibilities and no friends in the neighborhood, has meant we have spent 100% of our time together. We have done…
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Boundaries in Marriage, Part Five: Respect
Hello dear SUMites It's Ann here and I'm writing from France, where Bryce and I arrived yesterday. We're staying for a month in a town called Foix in the very south of France. It has always been a dream of mine to live in France, and so perhaps this is the closest I can get. …
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An Important Story for Us: The House in Florida
Dear friends, Ann here. Today I'm going to share a very special story. It is a story that is important for our community. It is a story that is breathed by God's mouth. I always try to write exactly what God wants me to write. He picks the topics. So today this is what he…
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Halloween: What is a Christian to do?
Every year Halloween is tricky for us, given our split households and the pressure we get to engage in it. So, with that in mind here's a post on this topic that was written by Lynn last year. Hope this helps a little — Keep praying for wisdom, and let's chat in the comments. From…
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Jesus is a-Knocking!
Hi again friends, I am on a ROLL, writing about the meet-up. I have a number of stories I want to share with you about this week that we've just gone through. Why not! So settle in, it is going to be story-time for the next week or so. Yay! Let's turn now to the…
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The Heart of the Spiritually Mismatched
My friends … Last Tuesday morning, the California sun was shining, as those of us who were already at Lynn’s house (Lynn, Gillian, Jim, and I) set the breakfast table ready for those who were yet to arrive. Then, a bunch of lovely ladies came down the pathway to knock on Lynn’s door. We stood…
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A Testimony, by Barb Twigg
Barb here with a testimony! A few months back I felt led to start praying and declaring that our clubhouse belongs to the Lord and His Holy Spirit is welcome. I declared we’d see salvations, healings and deliverance. Our pool will become a baptismal. I live in a 55+ community where we meet on Thursdays…
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Friendships — A Christian Perspective. Guest Post by Jim Edwards
After our recent pair of posts on friendships, a long-time friend of this ministry, Jim Edwards, was inspired to write a third piece to it. So without further ado, I hand over to Jim — ** Friendships — A Christian Perspective I’ve been much mused at Ian and Ann’s wonderful descriptions of our different friendships…
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Book of Ephesians — Chapter Two
My friends, we are now up to chapter two. I love the fact that it is a favorite book of both Lynn and Ian. Doesn’t the book just … glitter … so far? It glitters in its promise. But you know what? The overriding thing about this chapter, for me, was that it gave me…
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Pray Instead of Complaining. A Guest Post by Lisa MacFarland
Pray Instead of Complaining The people started complaining to Moses, “Give us some water!”Moses replied, “Why are you complaining to me and trying to put the Lord to the test?” Exodus 17:2 (CEV) After reading Ann’s post recently about the “deliciousness of a wife”, I posted a comment about how easy it is to give…
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God’s Provision: A Story
SUMites, Those of you who've been with us a while will remember we had our last conference in April 2019, the Hear the Roar Summit in California. Well, that was impossible for me to get to. Honestly impossible. Yet I got there. I decided to dig out the story that I wrote on the blog…