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The Gift of Others!
Lent! We’re now 2 weeks into this annual pilgrimage to meet Jesus at the Cross and then to experience His resurrection of that wonderful Easter Sunday. For those of you who’ve been here for a while, you’ll know I love Lent. For me, it’s always a season to recalibrate, to assess my relationship with Jesus.
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Let’s Talk About Abuse and Reconciliation
Hello my friends, Ann here. Lynn is talking about such an important topic at the moment: Difficult personalities in families. I think many of us deal with a situation or two in our family where there is someone with a difficult personality. Would that be true to say? If I look at Bryce’s and my
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What I Know For Sure
Divine Love Hello! This is Barb Twigg with another What I Know For Sure
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What A Response!
Well….. WOW! It appears that exploring personality traits and difficulties is a topic of great interest. The overwhelming vote was “yes” to explore some challenging topics in relationships. I also respect those of you who didn’t want to look at this aspect of relationships. And those who cautioned about labeling anyone with a negative personality
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For Such a Time as This
Lynn here. I am so glad that several of you have applied to be guest authors. Joy, has written for SUM before. Today she is bringing another great article. Be encouraged. Hugs, Lynn Joy: There are moments in life when we look around and wonder how we got here. I’ve often questioned why I moved
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Personality Disorders
Hi Sumites, Lynn Donovan here. Recently I’ve been learning about narcissism and personality disorders in general. I’m utterly fascinated how disorders are formed and also managed within a person. I’m also interested in how these quirks, annoyances, and very challenging behaviors affect us relationally, especially within the context of marriage and our family of origin.
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Want to hear God? See in the Spirit.
Develop Your Spiritual Gifting Seminar Three: Develop Spiritual GiftsThere is so much confusion about spiritual gifts. It’s time to clearly divide the Word of God. Know what gifts we have access to then develop them in our lives. As the world grows dark, we reveal the light of God through His many gifts. We will
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What I Know For Sure
Hello! Barb Twigg here with another What I Know For Sure The veil will be removed!
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Valentine’s Day … What To Do!
It’s been a loooong while since I written about the practical life in a spiritually mismatched marriage. Today I would like to share a few thoughts of wisdom among us believing spouses as Valentine’s Day is about to roll around (AGAIN). In all transparency, I wish this day didn’t exist. Well, Kinda. It is wonderful
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When God puts you in the Marketplace
Hello friends, Ann here! I have been on quite the fast-moving journey the last two months, and I might share a little of that today, so here goes: I have recently gone back into the world of work and study. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am retraining as a coaching psychologist; and
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WHAT TO DO WITH A GIFT
AUTHOR: Tess Reeves. Have you ever been super excited to gift a bestie with a birthday surprise that you knew without a doubt would knock her off her feet? Did you have an image of what would her facial expression be when you handed it over? The joy on her face would be priceless. You
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Praying For Protection Seminar
At the start of every year, I offer training seminars to the financial donors that occurs on Giving Tuesday in December. If you missed your opportunity to support this ministry you can still give and register for this seminar. Link is at the bottom. The LIVE broadcast is Tuesday, January 28th at 11 am Pacific.
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What I Know For Sure
Hi, This is Barb Twigg with another What I Know For Sure He wants MORE of you!
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Balancing our Spouse and our Faith
Hello everyone How are you all, I wonder? It has been a while! I hope the fast went well for you. Well, today I’m actually a little raw. We have ‘raw’ days sometimes. This week my lovely hubby expressed that I’m charging off without him into stuff that I am interested in, leaving him alone.
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One Word 2026
Hi, This is Barb Twigg with another What I Know For Sure
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Annual Fast Concludes
What Did You Learn? What Did God Reveal to You? Thank you to our amazing prayer team for stepping up and writing words of encouragement for us through the week of fasting. They are each amazing women of faith. I love them deeply. For me, this fast launched something new… I am now on a
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There Once Was A Man Who Didn’t Believe
There was once a man who didn’t believe in God, and he didn’t hesitate to let others know how he felt about religion and religious holidays, like Christmas. His wife, however, did believe, and she raised their children to also have faith in God and Jesus, despite his disparaging comments. One snowy Christmas Eve, his
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A King is Born
The Writing Team will take a break now, through the end of the year. We will pick up again after our prayer team leads our January fast. Have a blessed Christmas. Lynn, Ann, Ian and Barb. Christ Born of Mary Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus
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If I don’t have my marriage …
Hello friends, Ann here. I was sitting in the sunshine with some Christian friends the other day, and I said this: “My marriage, as a Christian, is everything. If I pursue all kinds of other things in my faith life, but end up without my marriage, I will have lost a big treasure. Marriage is
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SUM Update
Hi SUM Nation. Lynn Donovan with you this Friday. I would like to update you about a few things happening in our “Church Without Walls” so you are aware and can participate. Our annual community fast will be January 5-9, 2026. I can’t believe I’m typing 2026. Say what? Our Prayer Team at SUM will
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What I Know For Sure
He’s Going To Do It Again! Barb Twigg here with another What I Know For Sure