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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…
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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…