unequally yoked

  • I’ve Reached a Dead-End!

    I’ve Reached a Dead-End!

    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.

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  • SUMites, You Are Brave Enough…..

    SUMites, You Are Brave Enough…..

    All of the undertones that we uncovered in Esther are powerful and new gifts to our faith. Today, I want to talk about the unequally yoked aspect of this story. I also want to point out Esther’s divine calling and how it’s fulfilled. In reality, all of us that are unequally yoked, could take a…

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  • Esther – Destroy Christian Faith – On Repeat

    Esther – Destroy Christian Faith – On Repeat

    Open your Bible to chapter three of Esther. Before we get started on Haman, I want to revisit the word, EDICT. This is a governmental word and a word of great power when spoken by royalty over a Kingdom. It’s power and significance landed squarely upon my spirit one night when driving down a California…

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  • Welcome to our Summer Study on Esther

    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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  • 24/7 Praise and Worship- The House of SUM

    24/7 Praise and Worship- The House of SUM

    —Schedule is at the bottom of the post.— When we praise, we are expressing our admiration for God; we are lifting Him up in exaltation. Praise is the act of celebrating or boasting about the Lord. Praise can be done through song, poems, or confessing the goodness of God to others. We should be giving…

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  • 24/7 Praise & Worship! SIGN UP NOW!

    24/7 Praise & Worship! SIGN UP NOW!

    (View open slots at the bottom of the post) GOD IS NOT DEAD. Nor does He sleep. His people MUST ARISE and take back ground the enemy has stolen. It’s time that the children of God decide to go ALL IN! A sold-out, Jesus Freak, life is our only hope. WE are the representatives of…

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  • SUMite Church Without Walls – 24/7 Worldwide Worship

    SUMite Church Without Walls – 24/7 Worldwide Worship

    First Time Ever! Our SUM Nation will offer to our Lord a 24 hour praise and worship vigil. Let’s join and select an hour that we praise the Lord creating a 24 hour chain from our house of SUM.Tuesday, August 6th, midnight through Wednesday, August 7th, midnight.Take a look at the slots. Sign up in…

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  • It’s Worth The Waiting! Chronicles of the Donovan Clan

    It’s Worth The Waiting! Chronicles of the Donovan Clan

    Twenty-seven years. I won’t look back at the years with longing for what might have been. I look back at the decades and see Jesus in every turn along the journey. I view the Father’s hand of favor and love and I feel the peace of the Holy Spirit as the Trinity lived within.

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  • The Christian “ITCH”

    The Christian “ITCH”

    SUMites. I have to say…some of the praises and posts on our Facebook group on giving thanks has been breaking down walls. Can any of you feel it? I know I do! “God is on the move, on the move, halleluuuu-jah! God is on the move, on the move todaaayyy (insert me singing Newsboys here.…

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  • Marriage Prayers of Influence

    Marriage Prayers of Influence

    It’s daily, that I grow ever more concerned and aware of the great power our word wield in the spiritual realm. As sons and daughters of God, our voice, is our greatest weapon of offense. But our words also can release havoc into our lives. Most of the time we are unaware that we are…

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  • The Influence of a Christian Wife – This is good!

    The Influence of a Christian Wife – This is good!

    This morning in my Daily Bible reading I came across the following passage and God began to talk. Want to know what He said? It’s really good. A MUST read for every SUM wife!

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  • Chronicles of the Donovan Clan. Clan Update

    Chronicles of the Donovan Clan. Clan Update

    Wow, I missed all of you so much while I was away frantically writing. But guess what? I’ve finished the basic manuscript, Marching Around Jericho, Praying Your Unsaved Spouse Into the Kingdom. Hallelujah. This is a radical book. It will stretch you and challenge every demon of complacency, doubt and religiosity. This book will place…

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  • Loving Your Separated Spouse by Linda Rooks

    Loving Your Separated Spouse by Linda Rooks

    Loving Your Separated Spouse I know in this community of unequally yoked believers, there is someone whose spouse has walked out the door and left. Your heart is breaking right now, and you don’t know what to do. Perhaps your spouse has never accepted Christ or perhaps, like my husband did many years ago, he…

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  • MUST READ For SUMites Still Waiting

    MUST READ For SUMites Still Waiting

    My heart has been with the many who are reading here and are STILL waiting for your miracle. It may have been wrenching to read about spouses coming to faith while you languish in the loneliness and deep conflicts of a mismatched marriage. I know for me, reading about happy couples was sometimes a dagger…

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  • “After the Party”: A Poem Inspired by the Parable of the Prodigal Son – By Charumathi R Rao. (SUMite)

    “After the Party”: A Poem Inspired by the Parable of the Prodigal Son – By Charumathi R Rao. (SUMite)

    After the Party He threw a party for me, to welcome me back! After I’d gone and lost all his wealth, I’d broken his heart, shamed his fame, Yet here he is, calling my name.

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  • Strange Easter? Chronicles of the Donovan Clan

    Strange Easter? Chronicles of the Donovan Clan

    Friends, I will tell you that my Easter was strange. I attended my church on Saturday evening and was overcome by the presentation and the holiness of Jesus and what He gave to me. And then on Sunday morning, I attended my old church with Mike. It was weird and different and good.

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  • Good Friday

    Good Friday

    John 12: 24-25 Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it…

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  • The Summit

    The Summit

    Photos From the Summit

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  • Our Father IS the Father in Luke 15

    Our Father IS the Father in Luke 15

    Jesus tells the story to His followers of the Prodigal son in the book of Luke 15. And there is so much more going on in this story than we comprehend. I hope you have enjoyed the posts about this passage over the past few weeks.But today, we are going to look at the Father…

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  • The Perfect Son Who Stayed on the Farm

    The Perfect Son Who Stayed on the Farm

    I wonder if you feel offense for the older brother?After all, this man dutifully stayed at home, working hard, toiling in the land and never disobeyed his father. Honestly, if you’ve been a prodigal, you wished you had never run away, and you feel guilty that you come home and are welcomed back. You compare…

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