Salvation
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A Rather Fabulous Week…
Hello friends, Ann here! In the last two weeks I've actually been on a cheeky little 10-day trip away — A trip that turned out to be spiritually surprising. I went on my own, leaving Bryce and the boys at home; and I can't believe the things I saw on this trip. The trip was…
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A Child of an Unequally Yoked Marriage: Part One
We're privileged today to have a guest post from fellow SUMite, Betty Higginbotham. Betty is going to share her testimony of growing up in an unequally yoked home – And, wow, what a testimony. The testimony will be in two parts — Part one today, and part two on Wednesday. Now, over to Betty —…
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Yvonne Swarbrick Salvation Testimony
We were sent this amazing story of how one husband turned to Jesus after many years of his wife waiting. We are so grateful to Yvonne Swarbrick for sharing it — it is her story. Read, meet Yvonne, and be encouraged: "I became a Christian in 1985 , the Lord had been calling me a…
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The Silent Day! At Least That’s What Satan Believed!
The Passion Week – Wednesday- by Lynn Donovan The Silent Day SUM Nation, on this Wednesday as we remember and honor the Passion of Christ, let’s focus on what happened on Wednesday leading up to the resurrection. The Bible offers little information regarding Jesus, His disciples, and their activity that day. But we know many…
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‘Preaching’ the Gospel — To a Spouse?
Hi everyone, it's Ann here and I hope you've had a good weekend! Today we'll start with these words of Jesus to his then-disciples: “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” (Mark 16:15, NLT) "Yes, Lord", we say to that, as modern-day disciples. "In whatever way you want us to…
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Alissa Berglund Salvation Testimony
This week one of our dear SUMites, Alissa Berglund, sent us the following story. This was one of the salvation testimonies we heard of a few weeks ago behind the scenes, and since then Alissa has been writing it up, knowing just how much it will encourage us all. We're so happy for her, and…
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Perishing vs Being Saved
Hi friends. For today's post here’s a little video that I just did live on our Facebook page. Enjoy! Ann
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The Ice Cream Van
Hi again dear SUMites I said in my last post that the Holy Spirit had given us two playful pictures to hold at the moment. The first one I described in the last post. The second one I'm sharing today. We are children to Jesus, and sometimes he will use playful analogies with us. What…
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I see a cloud the size of a man’s hand
Hi SUM family, Ann here. Whew, it’s been an exciting week with us hearing about two spouses’ salvations in one week. If you missed those you can catch up here and here. Well, unbelievably, there’s more! No sooner had I uploaded Monday's post about a second salvation than I got a message from another SUM…
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Jesus, I can’t see past my SUM!
Happy Friday, friends — Ann here! Today, I’d like to share a vision that the Lord gave our community a few years ago. It was Dineen who received it, and she shared it on the blog — The original article is here. I hope when you read the vision below it will encourage you! Here’s…
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The Harvest – The Many!
Dear friends, Ann here! One of the things I’m currently thinking about is the word 'Harvest' and how it relates to all we have been through in this community. I guess I feel we've been prepared through some pretty gruelling training (i.e., the challenges of a spiritual mismatch), and that training has equipped us to…
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The Harvest Ahead
Dear friends, Ann here. I mentioned on Monday that I would share some words from our archives that God gave our community. These words are promises that we're dusting off now because they feel relevant for today. For the past months I've been hearing God that after this pandemic many of us are going to…
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Belief vs Unbelief: The Father’s Grand Clock
Ann here! We’ve been talking about the ingredients that go into belief vs. unbelief. In part one we talked about the power of free will. Then, in part two we talked about the influence of the demonic. Well, today I want to talk about the Father's Grand Clock. That is, the fact that God might have…
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Belief vs Unbelief: The Power of Free Will
Hi friends, Ann here! I've been thinking lately about the topic of belief vs. unbelief, and all the different spiritual ingredients that go into that. Like many of you, I have a mixture of believers and unbelievers in my life, and often look at those who don't believe and wonder what is going on there. …
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A Word: God is Calling our Spouses.
Hello friends, Ann here. Today I’m continuing from my post last week about this blog being like a wonderful museum of God stories. If you missed it you can catch up here. In that post, I described how God has given our community the occasional prophetic word over the years: words of wisdom or promises specifically…
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Welcome Listeners of Chris Brooks on Moody Radio
It’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…
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Supernatural Happenings
Photo supplied courtesy of imagery majestic and FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hi! Ian here. Lent began last Wednesday with Ash Wednesday. I’m observing this season once again as I enjoy being intentional about seeking more of God and Lent and Advent seem to help me do that. Yes, I ‘give up’ something (sugar and Instagram this year) as…
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Salvations in Our Community: What’s Next?
Hi friends, Ann here! There’s a curious thing happening in our ministry right now: We’re seeing significantly more spouse salvations than we have before. For years we’ve known it would happen, and now it’s visible. We’re seeing it mentioned in emails or on closed Facebook groups; that’s how we know. It started about a year…
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Welcome to our Summer Study on Esther
I’m writing today with a change in gears. It’s time for our summer study on the Book of Esther, and I have the pleasure of kicking it off. Lynn will post next, and we’ll take turns. Many will remember we studied this book two years ago (April 2017) but we seem to hear ‘Esther’ again.…
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A Shiny New Legacy
Hi friends, Ann here! It’s my turn to write this week and I thought I’d take the opportunity to tell you a crazy story. I hope it makes you smile. Back in April, after our ‘Hear the Roar’ conference, I landed home with a spinning head. So much had happened, and I had a…
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What is Your Life’s Impact?
By Ann Hutchison “Come to my prayer group!” a lady sidled up to me one day at church, eyeing me closely. It was early in my faith and I had questions. I’d been attending for weeks but still couldn’t help wondering if Christians were nuts to believe. Hers was an invite I decided to accept:…