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What’s Your Biggest Question for Jesus About Your Marriage?
Read more: What’s Your Biggest Question for Jesus About Your Marriage?Hello friends, Ann here. Recently, I popped a question onto our Facebook page, asking ‘What’s your biggest question for Jesus right now concerning your spiritual mismatch?’ Many of you will have seen that post, but some won’t. I found the responses so helpful in relation to my own path, that I thought you might too.…
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The Day God Surprised Me
Read more: The Day God Surprised MeHi friends, Ann here! We can walk through this SUM path feeling weary, right? But there are moments where God brings us a surprise gift to cheer us up. Today I want to encourage you with a little story: It's about the day I discovered Bryce’s favorite friend had unexpectedly become Christian. If you need…
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Wrapping Up Our Series on LOVE
Read more: Wrapping Up Our Series on LOVEDear friends, Ann here. Today we wrap up our series on love. Here in our SUM community there are many different marriages. Some have spouses who are easy to love; others have extremely challenging situations. But in every relationship – easy or hard – love is not easy. Nor is it simple. And even with…
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When Love Makes You Unpopular
Read more: When Love Makes You UnpopularHi friends, Ann here! As we sit in 1 Corinthians 13, it occurs to me how many facets this little word ‘LOVE’ has. It’s easy to think of love as being kind and patient; it’s easy to think of it as being something like a hug. It is truly that. But there’s another side, and…
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How to Pray Psalm 91 For Your Children’s School
Read more: How to Pray Psalm 91 For Your Children’s SchoolPraying Psalm 91 by Vidya Rodney Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. For he will rescue you from every…
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Dealing with a Difficult Person
Read more: Dealing with a Difficult PersonHi friends, Ann here! With our coffees at the ready, how about we take a look at this challenging gem today in 1 Corinthians 13: "Love keeps no record of wrongs" (1 Corinthians 13:5, NIV) It is a noble thing to not keep record of wrongs. But do any of you have an ‘extremely difficult…
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Are We Living In the End Times?
Read more: Are We Living In the End Times?Are We Living In the End Times? My friends, I’m stepping away from the study of 1 Corinthians 13 as I want to address the issue of the end-times messages that are overwhelming the Christian church. Since March there have been a number of doom proclaimers in Christendom. These are well respected and educated pastors,…
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3 am Is Very Telling? Do You Get Me? by Lynn Donovan
Read more: 3 am Is Very Telling? Do You Get Me? by Lynn DonovanSUM Nation, I have a “real” question. When you read this passage does you bristle a little? Do you find it difficult to even begin to understand these words and what they are supposed to look like in real life? Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it…
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Clashing Cymbal or Lapping Ocean?
Read more: Clashing Cymbal or Lapping Ocean?Hi friends, Ann here. Today we begin our series on LOVE, and in a moment I have a light-hearted story to share. But first, speaking of love, I wanted to take a minute to thank you for your loving support after Lynn's announcement this week. This community is pure joy to me and I look…
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Let’s Talk about Love
Read more: Let’s Talk about LoveImage courtesy of Dan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hiya! Ian from Springtime Sydney. Yes, we in the Southern Hemisphere are beginning to experience the blooming of flowers, the tweeting of baby birds (and unwanted attacks while walking by overzealous magpies) and longer days. I was excited to know that Ann is to be leading us over the…
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ANNOUNCMENT by Lynn Donovan
Read more: ANNOUNCMENT by Lynn DonovanSUMite Nation: I have a few announcements and a few changes to let you know about. First, I would like to thank Ann and Tiffany for the stellar Summer Bible Study series. It was fascinating to view the truths of the Bible through a different lens. Often, we can become stymied in our thoughts and…
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Our Summer Study: It’s a Wrap!
Read more: Our Summer Study: It’s a Wrap!Hello friends, Ann here. Today I wanted to write a final word on our Summer Study to properly wrap it up. We’ve spent the last few posts looking at Jesus and the Church as the ultimate spiritual mismatch. And prior to that we raced through so many Bible characters. I hope you enjoyed it as…
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Ann and Lynn SUM Sidebar 8 18 20
Read more: Ann and Lynn SUM Sidebar 8 18 20Ann Hutchison is the Director of the Spiritually Unequal Marriage ministries. She is a contributing author, she also provides weekly video teaching, as well as overseeing all aspects of the ministry’s social media, email, and website management. Ann resides in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband and two teenage boys. She loves chatting with friends,…
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JESUS AND THE CHURCH ARE THE ULTIMATE MISMATCH
Read more: JESUS AND THE CHURCH ARE THE ULTIMATE MISMATCHLynn here. THIS IS FROM THE LORD! The entirety of our years on earth are rushing, headlong toward ONE SPECIFIC DAY! A Day that’s been destined in our future for eternity. A day the has been promised before time began. The greatest day of all eternity!!! The wedding supper of the Lamb! And SUMITE NATION,…
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A Royal Wedding and Our Earthly Marriages
Read more: A Royal Wedding and Our Earthly MarriagesHi friends, Ann here. I remember, as a 5-year-old girl, being mesmerized by the wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles of England in 1981. Little girls are funny like that. They can be the ultimate dreamers. Knowing this, my mum bought me a little hard-backed book about the wedding and I would pore over…
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Jesus and the Church: The Ultimate Marriage Story
Read more: Jesus and the Church: The Ultimate Marriage StoryHi friends, Ann here! I hope you've enjoyed our race through different Bible marriages this summer. We had much to look at and there were some marriages we didn’t even cover, such as Hosea's. Alas, summer is nearly over. In the middle of this summer study I received a message from one of our friends,…
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Abraham and Sarah – SUMITES in the Bible – Summer Bible Study
Read more: Abraham and Sarah – SUMITES in the Bible – Summer Bible StudyHey SUM family, Tiffany here! Today I want to talk about Abraham and Sarah. Before God changed their name, they were known as Abram and Sarai. It was to Abram that God spoke of some amazing promises. Let's take a look shall we? Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country,From your familyAnd from…
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Learning to Love
Read more: Learning to LoveHello, dear Sumites. Ian from Down Under here. In this challenging year, it’s very easy to hop on the blame bandwagon and start griping about everything and anything. Life as we know it has been turned upside down and really the ‘new normal’ is still so uncertain. What will life be like in 2021, which…
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Mary – SUMITES in the Bible – Summer Bible Study
Read more: Mary – SUMITES in the Bible – Summer Bible StudyHey SUM family, Tiffany here! Luke 1 26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And having come in, the angel said to her, ”Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; [e]blessed are you…
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This Woman in the Bible is a One-Hit Wonder
Read more: This Woman in the Bible is a One-Hit WonderHello friends, Ann here! Today I’m going to write something different than what we hinted at in the last post. The Holy Spirit changes our plans sometimes, and I believe he wanted us to look at this Bible character next. Are you ready to meet her, this next one, this dark horse? Well, here we…
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Nabal, Abigail, and David -SUMITES in the Bible- Summer Bible Study
Read more: Nabal, Abigail, and David -SUMITES in the Bible- Summer Bible StudyWe left our story in 1 Samuel 25 with Abigail meeting David with provisions and a great big “SORRY.” Whew, that sorry and the honor she bestowed upon David saved probably more than 100 people from bloodshed. (verse 33 & 34) She went home and arrived to ANOTHER drunken banquet. – Ugh! Abigale was likely…
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Who Is Abigail? SUMites of the Bible Summer Study
Read more: Who Is Abigail? SUMites of the Bible Summer StudyTodays passage, 1 Samuel 25. Abigail was married to a wicked, unbeliever, Nabal (Hebrew name means mean, base, vile, unbeliever) who denied support to the future King of Israel. And if you read through 1 Samuel 25 again today, you will notice how much this woman was a woman of deep faith. And just as…
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Here’s One For the History Books – Literally- SUMites in the Bible
Read more: Here’s One For the History Books – Literally- SUMites in the BibleSUMers, I could write for days about 1 Samuel, chapter 25. Whoa. There is so much in here. So, get a cup, sit down, strap in, and hold on as we jump in and learn from God’s Word. Hallelujah! PLEASE go read the chapter, click here for the NIV version. I’m going to be teaching…
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Welcome Listeners of Chris Brooks on Moody Radio
Read more: Welcome Listeners of Chris Brooks on Moody RadioIt’s an honor and privilege to share with the listeners on the Equipped show with Chris Books, Moody Radio, the amazing journey I took marching around Jericho and my unsaved spouse's faith journey. Chris is an amazing host and our conversation covered many aspects of living and praying for our unsaved spouses. VISIT THE BROADCAST…