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What I Know For Sure
Read more: What I Know For SureHello and welcome to What I Know For Sure with Barb Twigg I wasn’t lost, just on the wrong path
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What Are Personality Disorders?
Read more: What Are Personality Disorders?Hello SUMite Nation. Summer is upon us. Have a fabulous Memorial Day in the State. Today, we are going to wrap up our posts regarding personality disorders and healthy relationships. What is a personality disorder? A personality disorder is a mental health condition that involves long-lasting, all-encompassing, disruptive patterns of thinking, behavior, mood and relating…
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My Praying Mum
Read more: My Praying MumAnn here! My friends, I am currently in England, visiting my Mum. Here’s a picture of us, taken today … I feel today that I want to honor my lovely mum for her strength of faith. She became a Christian when she was about 19 or 20, having grown up in a home that was…
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Two Birthdays
Read more: Two BirthdaysYesterday I turned another year older. And yesterday SUM turned 20! Each year now feels like a milestone as significant and amazing things occur year upon year. I somehow believed as I grew older, life slows and becomes easier. And in some ways it has. Yet, the ministry continues to support thousands who land on…
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What I Know For Sure
Read more: What I Know For SureNehemiah moment Hello and welcome to What I Know For Sure with Barb Twigg
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Vulnerability
Read more: VulnerabilityVULNERABILITY When you’re building connections with one another, you’re building bridges of trust that can bear the weight of truth. Some of the personality characteristics we have studied thus far, prohibit authentic connection. Our greatest need is relationships where we are safe to be our authentic self. Below is a quick video where vulnerability researcher…
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What God Secrets Are Yours?
Read more: What God Secrets Are Yours?Ann here! My friends, I want to say something to you today: God holds secrets about your life that are majestic to your heart. Take a look at the photo here of a bend that goes around the corner. God holds secrets about your future that only he knows…. …. What is round that bend?…
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Difficult Relationships — One Strategy
Read more: Difficult Relationships — One StrategyHello friends, Ann here. We’ve been talking about difficult relationships for a while on here now. So many of us have difficult relationships, either in our home, or in our extended family. Some of these difficulties are quite severe. There are a few strategies, spiritually, for dealing with difficult people. But one I like the…
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We Call Her Tisim!
Read more: We Call Her Tisim!Hi, Lynn here today…. My granddaughter was snuggling Penny, her golden retriever. Penny joined my son’s family a number of years ago. Avery looked up at me and said, “We call her Tisim.” Me, “what?” My son joined the conversation, “Ya, she has mild autism. It’s actually a thing with dogs too.” Me, Hunh??? It’s…
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When God Gives A Promise …
Read more: When God Gives A Promise …Friends, Ann here. I want to talk about the topic of promises today. I am doing so because my book, The Pair-Shaped Promise describes the story of how I carried a promise from God deep in my heart, I believed it would happen. And it did. But without meaning to spoil the book…. there is…
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The Spouse Effect
Read more: The Spouse EffectTestimony: Tessia Reeves AUTHOR: Tess Reeves. I’ve loved Our Creator for decades and never grow weary of hearing from Him. I was entrusted with Keith, my husband of 28 yrs. As if that wasn’t enough, he helped me to raise 2 magnificent daughters (Jessica, 25yo and Jalyn, 22yo). I love our nondenominational church in Gainesville,…
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Difficult Relationships – Is It Demonic?
Read more: Difficult Relationships – Is It Demonic?How much is our struggle with Difficult People is Emotional, Physical, or Spiritual? This is a very real question that is actually difficult to definitively answer. In a couple of my books such as Marching Around Jericho and Spiritual Enforcer, I share very real struggles that are spiritual in nature. Let me share a real…
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When a Man Prays …
Read more: When a Man Prays …Hey friends, Ann here. Want to hear something cool…? Two weeks ago on Monday I had a really difficult time. Things in my extended family have been difficult for about 18 months – but they rared up again on the day my book was released. Grr. The timing, huh. It was so bad that I…
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How To Communicate Your Needs
Read more: How To Communicate Your NeedsToday, I want to share another video from Dr. Sarah Hensley. In this video, she shares how to coach avoidant personalities to meet some of your emotional needs to connect. In future posts we will look at more challenging relationships, and we will also cover the spiritual component and how much our faith in Jesus…
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Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… Part Two
Read more: Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… Part TwoTo read part one of this story, click here. My friends, we left off on Monday with my husband sitting on a rocking chair, reading my book manuscript, quietly… This act alone sent me into a spiral of serious trauma. I basically fell into bed unable to function for that whole Sunday. Every now and…
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Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… And It’s Sort of About Us
Read more: Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… And It’s Sort of About UsHi my friends, Ann here. Ok, now I’m going to tell you the back-story to this book, and how I shared it with Bryce. Let’s go back nine years ago. Bryce and I were in our early forties then and we were in the thick of our SUM situation. He would take the boys out…
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Would He or Wouldn’t He? Would My Husband Join Me in Faith?
Read more: Would He or Wouldn’t He? Would My Husband Join Me in Faith?I believed I had been given a promise from God that my husband would join me in faith, and we would be of one mind. It seemed God was giving me signs. But was it truly a promise from God, or was it my imagination? I was sufficiently convinced. So, I decided to believe the…
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It Was So GOOD. I Read It In a Day
Read more: It Was So GOOD. I Read It In a DayA Pair-Shaped Promise SUM Nation….. What happens when a life-time atheist asks God if He is real? This story is Ann’s real and true-life story of this very thing!!! This book is hilarious. I laughed OUT LOUD, many times. I couldn’t put it down and read it all, several times, in one sitting. It’s an…
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Introducing Ann’s New Book
Read more: Introducing Ann’s New BookHello friends, Ann here Over the last few years, I have been writing my testimony up into a book, and it is finally about to be published! Here it is — The Pair-Shaped Promise: A True Story of Faith and a Promise Kept. It is a story of my own coming to faith, it is…
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Easter is the Centrality of Love
Read more: Easter is the Centrality of LoveEaster, the death and resurrection of Christ, is an event that altered the fabric of humanity. Easter is the centrality of love. By this everyone will know that you are… Easter, the death and resurrection of Christ, is an event that altered the fabric of humanity. Easter is the centrality of love. By this everyone…
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The Upper Room
Read more: The Upper RoomToday I would like to challenge you to read the Upper Room Discourse, John, Chapter 13-17. These chapters are some of the most meaningful, powerful and life-transforming in the entire Bible. I become lost in pondering these passages. For example, a couple of weeks ago one of my prayer clients asked me, “How to do…
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Easter, And A Break in Our Relationships Study
Read more: Easter, And A Break in Our Relationships StudyEaster is next Sunday so we will take a break from our Healthy Relationships Study. Let’s focus our time on the Greatest Event in History, the Holy Week. It’s Monday for most readers here at Sum. Today marks the Triumphant Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King 11 As they approached Jerusalem…
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God’s Unique Mix of Traits
Read more: God’s Unique Mix of TraitsSandra BleserElkhorn, WisconsinMarried 20 years – no children“I’m not short, I’m fun-sized!” “The humble will see their God at work and be glad. Let all who seek God’s help be encouraged.” (Psalm 69:32) Thank you so much for your dedication to this ministry. I can say that God spoke to me through a comment within…
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Prolonged Abuse
Read more: Prolonged AbuseKendra Leathen is a mental health counselor at Elite DNA Behavioral Health, where she works with individuals and families healing from trauma, addiction, and relational wounds. With a background in teaching and a Master of Science degree in Mental and Clinical Health Counseling from Palm Beach Atlantic University and Master of Arts in Theological studies…
