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The Most Dangerous Prayer
Read more: The Most Dangerous PrayerHi friends! I’m still traveling! Here’s a post I wrote in November of 2007 that is still so relevant. 🙂
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A Death In The Family
Read more: A Death In The FamilyThis week I received an email from a very close friend. She has been a reader here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for some time now. I have grown to love her and her family deeply. This week my sister in the Lord wrote me to tell me of a death in her family. Reeling in…
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Life…Interrupted
Read more: Life…InterruptedHi friends! I’m on the road traveling, and life is full of interruptions at the moment. Just wanted to share this post I wrote in May of 2007 with you again. 🙂 So often we think we have things under control. Life is going along fine. Then it happens, that one thing you never expected.…
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Marriage Monday – Men and Play
Read more: Marriage Monday – Men and PlayToday is Marriage Monday. Our topic this month is; Men and Play Recreational companionship is an important need in men. Husband’s want their wives to partner with them when they play. I have a weird and funny story about this very subject. It happened to me last week while I was blow-drying my hair. Without…
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Kids are abandoning their Faith
Read more: Kids are abandoning their FaithA new study by The Barna Group (Ventura, California) shows that despite strong levels of spiritual activity during the teen years, most twentysomethings disengage from active participate in the Christian faith during their young adult years-and often beyond that. In total, six out of ten twentysomethings were involved in a church during their teen years,…
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The Judgment of Others
Read more: The Judgment of OthersI spoke with a friend at church Sunday who is also unequally yoked, and she brought up an issue I think we all run into at one point or another. As unequally yoked spouses, what can we do to cross the faith barrier to connect with our unbelieving spouses? And in so doing, how do…
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Would you Change Churches?
Read more: Would you Change Churches?I have spending a significant amount of time thinking about church. I am one of the thousands of spouses who pray in hope that my husband will want to attend church. In our early years, of course, this prayer was completely self-centered. I wanted my man to become a Christian because my life would be…
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What’s in the Mail? –
Weekend DevotionRead more: What’s in the Mail? –Recently I joined a prison ministry called Soaring Spirits and became a “Rose.” A Rose is assigned a female inmate who is attending Christian seminars through the Soaring Spirits ministry and commits to sending a card of encouragement each month. Today as I was writing my card, I felt led to write a scripture verse…
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She Wasn’t Pretty!
Read more: She Wasn’t Pretty!It was Friday morning. The alarm buzzed an awful warning that another jam-packed day awaited. The lumpy hotel mattress and over-large stuffed pillow contributed to the pounding headache which was beating in rhythm with the blaring alarm. This was day 12 of our travels. I rubbed my eyes stumbled over the discarded bedspread piled on…
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When Our World Shakes
Read more: When Our World ShakesOur human nature makes us naturally resistant to change. And we tend to view any kind of shake up with a negative eye. It makes sense…naturally. So how do we shift our viewpoint from the natural to the eternal when God is shaking up our lives? If we’re to believe God is sovereign and nothing…
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Fantasy Football and God
Say What?Read more: Fantasy Football and GodMany of you who have been readers at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for some time know I hear from God while in the bathroom. Many times I am buck nakid’ in the shower and sometimes I am in the closet getting dressed. Today I was blow-drying my hair…. Guess what the Lord prompted me to do?…
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Weekend Devotion – For All the Strivers Out There
Read more: Weekend Devotion – For All the Strivers Out There“Cease striving and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10 I have this Scripture written on an index card right now. (Yes, a pink one!) I need this verse so badly. See, I’m a perfectionist by nature and very performance driven. This verse tells me I don’t have to be. It tells me that…
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Don’t Save Your Spouse….
Read more: Don’t Save Your Spouse….…..Save yourself…. Over the past couple of days I have had a little trip down memory lane. I am wondering if you would also travel down this lane with me. I have posted in months prior about my feeble attempts to save my husband. As if Jesus needed my help, thank you very much. I…
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Thankful Thursday – What is a Bovine?
Read more: Thankful Thursday – What is a Bovine?Twenty-five years… It’s been a long time…. My daughter and I returned this week from a 15-day road trip. What trip it was!!! We drove from California to Nevada, visited with my son and long-time friend Becky. Then we set out for Southern Utah to visit my Dad’s ranch. A week later, on to Colorado…
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Unified by Circumstances
Read more: Unified by CircumstancesI had the wonderful opportunity to speak and share with a group of ladies Monday evening as part of the Daughters of Sarah ministry at Riverslake Church in Bakersfield, CA. We all share a common bond-being unequally yoked. Again, I’m amazed at how just knowing we’re not alone can minister to the ache in our…
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What’s In Your Camp?
Read more: What’s In Your Camp?This scripture started it all: Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. If you remember I began this journey back…
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Showing Christ
Read more: Showing ChristIf I could tell my husband one thing today, I would tell him I love him. If I could speak special words to him today, I would speak of my love for him. If I could show him who I love most, I would show him Christ. How do we show Christ? How do we…
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Marriage Monday – It’s back!
Read more: Marriage Monday – It’s back!Marriage Monday is back! This week is an open topic and since Lynn is on vacation, this little mousey (Dineen) gets to play! So I’ve chosen a topic I’m betting you can relate to. We Have a Failure to Communicate Have you ever had a conversation with your spouse that turned into an argument? (I…
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What is in Your Camp? It can be Destructive!
Read more: What is in Your Camp? It can be Destructive!This scripture started it all: Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. If you remember I began this journey back…
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Letting Go…Again
Read more: Letting Go…AgainI did it again. I took back something I had given over to God. And it took losing my peace, joy, and confidence to realize it. I don’t like getting angry at God, and I can think of only one other time I’ve been angry with him. Now I can count two times, unfortunately. So…
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A Divine Balloon?
Weekend DevotionRead more: A Divine Balloon?Sunday my husband opened the back door to go outside to do some chores. As he opened the door, this is what he found lying on the doorstep. Now look at little closer. Can you read the words? Is reads: BAPTISM! I think God is hilarious! The delivery from the sky of this particular balloon…
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What’s In Your Camp?
Read more: What’s In Your Camp?This scripture started it all: Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. If you remember I began this journey back…
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Thankful Thursday – A New Baby?
Read more: Thankful Thursday – A New Baby?Hi and welcome everyone to Thankful Thursday. Some of you have been participating in Thankful Thursday for quite some time. You may remember that in March I wrote a Thankful Thursday post about a new garden. You might recall we changed our backyard landscape from grass to a vegetable garden on the left and a…