Encouragement
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Weekend Devotion-Are You Envious?
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but…
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I was a Kingdom Assignment
Little did Lynn know that a kingdom assignment was already brewing back in May. A dear friend of mine found a lost treasure in a parking lot-a wad of money. She let the store know she'd found something valuable and left her phone number to call if anyone came forward. One phone call would gladly…
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Weekend Devotion-Resolving Conflict (Part 3)
Welcome to week three of a three part series from Purpose Driven Life, Daily Devotional about resolving conflicts with your spouse. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy your spouse! Praying and believing, Dineen How to Resolve Conflict with Your Spouse (Part 3) by Rick Warren Wisdom … is peace-loving and courteous. It allows discussion and…
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A God of the Little Things
Hello dear friends! I can't tell you how happy I am to be with you today. We are home from the hospital. Leslie's recuperation from her surgery has amazed everyone. God is so good! I want to share a post I did at our site at CaringBridge.org, which is an awesome site for those in…
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Weekend Devotion-Resolving Conflict (Part 2)
Welcome to week two of a three part series from Purpose Driven Life, Daily Devotional about resolving conflicts with your spouse. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy your spouse! Praying and believing, Dineen How to Resolve Conflict with Your Spouse (Part 2) by Rick Warren If you’re going to pull together when you’re pulled apart,…
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The Expert – Could that be Me?
Okay, I am overwhelmed! I have heard from so many of you who want to Love people and honor our Jesus. Across America, through Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia. We are part of this fantastic story about to unfold, The Kingdom Assignment. It is not to late to join us. Click here to sign up…
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Weekend Devotion – Resolving Conflict
For the next three weekends, Lynn and I would like to share a series provided by Purpose Driven Life, Daily Devotional about resolving conflicts with your spouse. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy your spouse! Praying and believing, Dineen How to Resolve Conflict with Your Spouse (Part 1) by Rick Warren You quarrel and fight.…
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Ready to Graduate
I want to graduate from the unequally yoked club. I bet you do to. In January of this year, God had me write something important down. He gave me a specific word about my future. Part of what he said was, “this is the year I will do great things in your life.” Now I…
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The Most Amazing of Times
Many of you know my youngest daughter (14) was diagnosed with a brain tumor last week. Thank you all for the wonderful and encouraging comments you left last Thursday, for the emails, and most importantly for your prayers. I am so very grateful and thankful for this amazing online community here and at 1Peter3Living. Never…
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Answer the Call
6And 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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Weekend Devotion-My Lord Speaks My Name
At 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!Okay, 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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The Chain of Effectiveness
For 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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The Great Hope Maker
And 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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Hope That Endures
Hi 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
A 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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The Most Dangerous Prayer
Hi 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
This 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
Hi 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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The Judgment of Others
I 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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When Our World Shakes
Our 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…