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Thankful Thursday –
A Day Like today… Can you give thanks?Read more: Thankful Thursday –It is Thankful Thursday. Today is one of those days where you really find out what your faith is made of. It is on days like this you can truly realize who you are and who God is and be brought to your knees with a thankful heart. One of my closest friends and co-writer…
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Answer the Call
Read more: Answer the Call6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and…
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On The Edge and I Need You
Read more: On The Edge and I Need YouHello Everyone: I am interrupting the scheduled post from last Monday: Is God’s love conditional or unconditional? I have to share with you some thoughts. I am very interested in your opinions. Saturday I attended the San Diego Christian Writers Conference. This is an annual even which is tied to my writing critique group. The…
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Weekend Devotion – Do You Need Healing?
Read more: Weekend Devotion – Do You Need Healing?This past week in Bible study we looked at scripture in Exodus 15. The Israelites were wondering without water in the wilderness. They came to Marah and found water. Whew! However, we know the water was bitter and undrinkable. The people panicked. Moses cried out to the Lord. The Lord, Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord their Provider.…
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Thankful Thursday –
A Birthday, An Announcement, A Prayer RequestRead more: Thankful Thursday –This is a very special Thankful Thursday for me. I am so humbled and thrilled to share some exciting news. I am joining the staff of our church, Sunridge Community Church. I will be helping my friend Pam in Women’s Ministry. If any of you have read my Bio you know I have been involved…
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Chronicles of ….
Conditional? OR Unconditional?Read more: Chronicles of ….Last Monday everyone had a chance to vote. Wow, many of you did. You also added your wisdom to this discussion and backed it up with scripture. I am blessed to know each of you who voted. Also, thank you for adding your thoughts and scripture verses. The question of debate: Is God’s Love Conditional…
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Weekend Devotion-My Lord Speaks My Name
Read more: Weekend Devotion-My Lord Speaks My NameAt this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. “Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and…
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The Chronicles of the Donovan Clan
Hot Salsa and Scripture! What a Hoot!Read more: The Chronicles of the Donovan ClanOkay, I have another story from the Donovan clan. I sure hope my stories don’t bore you but sometimes I just can’t hold them in. I see Jesus all over place pursuing my man in amazing ways. You should have heard him earlier in the week when I was telling him about some of stuff…
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Hit Again
Read more: Hit AgainLast Friday as I was driving home with my daughter in typical California rush hour traffic, I got rear-ended. Again. Two years ago we traded in my gas guzzling car for a nice, shiny red Honda Civic. I picked up my daughter from school one day and got rear-ended by the poor 17-year-old in the…
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Chronicles of the Donovan Clan
A Visit…. and then a really Great Question.Read more: Chronicles of the Donovan ClanWhen we walk the road of the Spiritually Mismatched it can be a lonely walk. We can feel emotionally abandoned by our spouse and forgotten by God. I want to you to know we often don’t know how to see God moving in our lives. We don’t know how to watch Jesus as He pursues…
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Thankful Thursday – Beth Moore and BFFs
Read more: Thankful Thursday – Beth Moore and BFFsThis week I am overwhelmed with thanks for so many things. But, I am especially thankful to the Lord for Women’s Bible study at our church. I took a year off from leading a study group to work on some writing projects and boy howdy, did I ever miss it. I am thankful God faithfully…
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Marriage Monday – Why Romance Matters
Read more: Marriage Monday – Why Romance MattersProverbs 30:18-19 (New Living Translation) 18 There are three things that amaze me- no, four things that I don’t understand: 19 how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. This scripture verse gives me chill bumps. No,…
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Ten Secrets to a Happy Marriage
Read more: Ten Secrets to a Happy MarriageFrom the book, Forever, by Karen Kingsbury 1.God has you here to serve one another. Love acted out is serving. 2.Women need respect and nurturing. Love your wife so she knows you’d lay your life down for her. 3.Continue to date her and admire her. Share a hobby – find something you can do to…
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Thankful Thursday –
A Question for You.Read more: Thankful Thursday –Fantasy Football Update: A few weeks ago I posted about joining a Fantasy Football League. God told me in the bathroom to spend quality and recreational time with my husband by joining Fantasy Football. Say what? (Read the story here) Well last weekend was the team draft. What’s a draft? My question exactly. Good thing…
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The Chain of Effectiveness
Read more: The Chain of EffectivenessFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective…
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Laced With Grace –
It’s in THE WALLS, I TELL YOU!Read more: Laced With Grace –Color me surprised! When we fist moved to California, I found myself sharing our home with unwanted critters. I moved from an extremely arid region, translation – Las Vegas, where the only small animals around our home were a few scorpions and tiny ants. Following our unpacking and a few nights in our brand new…
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Thankful Thursday
Read more: Thankful ThursdayThis week I am thankful for so many things: Forty or fifty pounds of tomatoes from my garden over the summer… Yum and eeee. I made tons of salsa… Bring on the chips and NFL football. My friend Dineen. She always listens. Always prays. Always Loves. Iris at Sting My Heart and Laced With Grace.…
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The Great Hope Maker
Read more: The Great Hope MakerAnd now part two…see you next week! Last week, I posted about enduring hope. At the end of the article, I included this verse as part of a prayer. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the…
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Think of me Monday
Read more: Think of me MondayFor many of us who have been married for more than a few years, we sometimes find our marriage falling into a rut. Our routines become habits. Habits are a good thing. However, in the world of romance, spontaneity gives spark to our our passion. I have heard from spouses who complain that their marriage…
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Spiritual Warfare – Negative talk and the enemy
Read more: Spiritual Warfare – Negative talk and the enemyI picked up my daily Bible this morning and began reading. The Old Testament reading started with the first chapter of Job. Wow, what a story. I have read this book several times and yet I am always blow away by this conversation in the first chapter. 1 In the land of Uz there lived…
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Thankful Thursday – Make it Your Choice!
Read more: Thankful Thursday – Make it Your Choice!1 Corinthians 13 4-7 It is a choice you make! 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in…
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Hope That Endures
Read more: Hope That EnduresHi Friends! Here’s the first of the two part hope series I wrote last August. I love this series and “hope” it will bring you encouragement again. Catch part two next week. Then I’ll be back! How do we keep hoping when everything we see tells us there is no hope? The very definition of…
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Dead-End Street
Read more: Dead-End StreetA Dead-End…. …Divorce… …Failed adoption… …Lost job… …Friendship betrayed… …Circumstances… …Cancer… Arrival on: Dead End Street This is a familiar road to me, perhaps to you as well. We arrive in this desolate place by many different vehicles and at various speeds. I have ambled down this road in a slow, painful progression, via a…
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Kid’s and Everyday Faith
Read more: Kid’s and Everyday FaithA couple of Friday’s back I wrote a post about our kids going back to school. I talked about ways we can impact our children’s lives with Jesus. Today, I have a few more suggestions I hope will inspire. Original Post: Kid’s are abandoning their Faith (click here). The idea is to begin some new…