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Standing on God’s Promises
Read more: Standing on God’s PromisesMy friends as I sit here and write this post, my family and I are facing some pretty tall mountains. If you read the blog Saturday, you know I wound up in the ER Friday morning due to a bad reaction to a medication (thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement!). I’m grateful…
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It’s About A Wedding. It’s About Covenant
Read more: It’s About A Wedding. It’s About CovenantMy friends, today I want to finish my story that began a few weeks ago. Here are the links to the previous posts: It's All About A Wedding What Is Covenant? And I Propose??? If you remember I shared with you how Dineen and I met, the journey of our friendship and our ministry beginnings.…
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Never Alone
Read more: Never AloneI remember a day years ago, sitting in a restaurant with our church youth group. I watched and smiled as they talked and joked around. And as I sat there in the midst of this group, I felt totally alone. I’d recently jumped in to church with gusto but my husband hadn’t. He’d decided to…
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An Unlikely Family Shows Up At The Movies
Read more: An Unlikely Family Shows Up At The MoviesHello SUMite Family: It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon here at the Donovan Clan House as I write this post. I’ve just returned home from the movie theater where I watched the movie, Son of God. I’m in my office alone right now, a rare accomplishment these days as my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter who is…
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Weekend Worship – The Throne of Grace
Read more: Weekend Worship – The Throne of GraceTherefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just…
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The Most Unusual Interview
Read more: The Most Unusual InterviewGood Friday Morning my friends, I want to tell you what happened when I asked Dineen to marry me. *grin*. I didn’t really ask her to marry me but I did do something extraordinary. But I must move the end of that story to next Friday. Today I want to give you a heads up.…
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God Used $20 To Build My Faith
Read more: God Used $20 To Build My FaithHappy Wednesday, SUMites! It's so good to be back! Special thanks again to Teresa T. for her amazing posts and all she shared with us. I have a story for you today, one that happened while Lynn and I were at the prophetic conference the end of January. I've been looking forward to telling you…
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What Is Covenant? and.. I Propose!
Read more: What Is Covenant? and.. I Propose!I’m picking up from last Monday… It’s all about a wedding. My friends, our relationships are about covenant. It’s about having a family. Covenant relationship – is our unity. Jesus desires the unity of believers. John 17: Jesus Prays for All Believers 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those…
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Weekend Worship – We are Surrounded!
Read more: Weekend Worship – We are Surrounded!Hello my beautiful friends! I'm so glad I'll be back full swing next week. I've missed you all so much. I've dipped into the comments frequently just to keep connected to you all and discovered many of us have been hit with more spiritual warfare these last few weeks. This has pushed me to dig…
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A Ten Year Journey to Becoming Equally Yoked
Read more: A Ten Year Journey to Becoming Equally YokedMy friend, Carol, and her husband are both Christian. This spiritual unity enhances their marriage union. But it wasn’t always that way. They agreed to share their story as an encouragement to those of us who are, or have been, in unequally yoked relationships. Wherever you are on your own journey, won’t you join me…
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It’s All About A Wedding!
Read more: It’s All About A Wedding!Hello SUMites, Lynn here. I’m posting on Wednesday today as I’m traveling the remainder of the week. Teresa will be sharing a fascinating interview on Friday. Dineen will be back in March. Woo Hoo!! Thank you Teresa T. for filling in this month. I love you my friend. And we appreciate your heart and time.…
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Weekend Worship – The “Year of Intimacy” Continues
Read more: Weekend Worship – The “Year of Intimacy” ContinuesMy friends, I've truly missed you this week. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. I want to share more of what I'm learning from Jesus in this "year of intimacy" that He is taking me through. Some of it has been painful as more of the lies that have infiltrated my…
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On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Read more: On Earth As It Is In HeavenGood Friday morning SUMites Nation: My friends, it looks like the enemy has stolen much from the family of the SUMites. The post on Monday moved my heart and I rose up with a righteous anger in prayer for all of you. I’m declaring through the love of Jesus that marriages, addiction, childhood, abuse, financial…
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Preparing Elevator Speeches
Read more: Preparing Elevator SpeechesIn last Wednesday's post, I opened a dialog about apologetics (the practice of presenting rational explanations for our faith in response to objections against Christianity). Thank you to all to shared comments. There is a lot of wisdom, power and diversity in our SUMite community. I find such value in reading the comments. Let’s…
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I Am Taking The devil To Court!
Read more: I Am Taking The devil To Court!Good Monday Morning SUMite Nation: Did you know that three years ago today, Winning Him Without Words, was released? Who knew God would take two ordinary gals and we would share our struggles in a book. And today, three years later, I’m humbled to the core to know that many of you have read this…
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Weekend Worship – Better Than Life
Read more: Weekend Worship – Better Than LifeMy friends, Dineen here. Forgive me for not being "around" as much the last week or so. I've had to take on some design work and teaching a fiction track at a conference to help my family fincancially. Very time consuming work and thus why I am SOOOO thankful that our very own Teresa T.…
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The Best Valentine
Read more: The Best ValentineHe speaks to us: Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love to be made whole and holy by his love…. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us…
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No Apologies for Apologetics
Read more: No Apologies for Apologetics(Image courtesy of artur84 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net) We were on vacation and sitting under the shade of a palm tree overlooking a breath-taking blue lagoon. “Are you seriously sitting there reading the Bible?” Yes. I am reading about how beautiful Queen Esther saves her people. I love this Bible event. (I try not to call…
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Achew! And A FIRE!
Read more: Achew! And A FIRE!Good Monday Morning SUMites!! Well as I write today, Sunday afternoon, I’m sicker than a dog… Wonder where that saying comes from??? Weird.. But, what you are getting right now is raw and unfiltered. My head is filled with goo, as Dineen says. Achew! I’ve been asking God for the last several hours to give…
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Weekend Worship – Beauty of Holiness
Read more: Weekend Worship – Beauty of HolinessPsalm 29: 1-2 Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones,Give unto the Lord glory and strength.Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. So, what is worship? So many people think that in church, we're worshiping God with singing, but really we're just praising. What is real worship? What does it mean to…
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NOW… That’s a GOOD Word!
Read more: NOW… That’s a GOOD Word!Hello Everyone. Today I’m going to do something a little different. I’ve been reading back through the notes I took at the conference last week. Wow!! SO GOOD! So, today I’m going to share some of them. I pray with the Holy Spirit power and anointing that these words are taken in through your eyes.…
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Trade in Your Yoke
Read more: Trade in Your YokeMy friends, as Lynn shared on Monday, Abba so overwhelmed us that last day at the conference. For the spiritually mismatched to be called out and recognized in this way was deeply humbling and amazing! It brought me to tears as my heart burst for all of us here. And to be prayed for like…
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God Has Heard Our Prayers For Our Spouse
Read more: God Has Heard Our Prayers For Our SpouseHello My SUM Family, I’m overwhelmed with all that happened at the conference. But specifically overwhelmed that God saw all of us, the Unequally Yoked. And on Saturday God burdened the heart of one of the speakers, Stacey Campbell. She prayed for all of us and she laid hands on me specifically and prophesied over…
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Weekend Worship – The Glory Within
Read more: Weekend Worship – The Glory WithinMy friends, I told you Wednesday that I had something amazing to share with you. I’ve been reading all the books of the prophets since last year and last week, landed in the book of Zechariah. As I read Zechariah 2, my spirit began to blaze and come to live. And verse 5 completely did…