Tag: bible
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Can I Trust My Father?
Earthly Fathers / Our Heavenly Father This morning, as I was going about my ‘duties’ that included starting the laundry, taking out the trash, washing the dishes, and organizing the pantry a bit, my heart and mind were running wild – literally in so many directions, and I knew that I was bordering on an…
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Strengthen the Spirit
Weaken the Flesh “Whatever strengthens my spirit weakens my flesh!” In our Christian walk, we cling to the promises of God found throughout His Word. One of those promises is that God will bless our obedience. He says that those who walk in obedience to Him will see the goodness of God. So how…
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“I’m Not Born Again!”
Faithfulness Matters I’m just going to begin this post with the honest truth, which is that I struggled with what to title it! They say that people choose whether to read your articles or not based on the ‘catchiness’ of the titles. I’m pretty sure this one will not grab the attention of many, but…
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Chaotic Emotions
Not Enough Words It was just a week ago that I was battling real feelings of loneliness, discouragement, and was close to depression. I even reached out to a couple of my closest friends and just asked them to pray for me – that I wasn’t ok. Let me tell you that this is not…
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Maybe She Was Born With It
Or Maybe It’s Mayballine Does anyone remember this commercial jingle? It has been running through my head this morning as I’ve considered some things that my study of Mary and Martha from Scripture this week brought to mind. If you’ve spent any time looking at these women and how they interacted with Jesus and those…
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Erika Kirk
The Morning After All of America has an opinion, an emotional reaction, a deep response to what we witnessed yesterday with the assassination of Charlie Kirk: known for his faith, his political stance, his ability to reason and debate – the incredible influence he had across several generations of Americans. We are deeply moved in…
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Clinging To Him
End of my rope “While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal!” This verse of Scripture became very real to me when I was in my early twenties…
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Forgiveness?
Eh, I’ve got that covered! Through the ministries of The Forgotten Woman, I’ve been meeting with women and studying, learning, and teaching on the subject of forgiveness for three years. “You mean you have been meeting with the same women for three years and studying forgiveness?” Yes. That’s exactly what I mean! And as this…
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No, It is not Easy
But if God will use it… I was in my early twenties when I first began singing the song, The Refiner’s Fire by Steve Green. At that point, I had suffered loss in many areas of my life, and I truly wanted all of it to be used to refine who I was/am and as…
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Church Music
Quality, Perfection, Performance or Worship? Let’s talk about quality, perfectionism, legalism, exhaustion and purpose in reference to ministry and more specifically worship. While I am not the perfectionist in my family (between myself and my siblings) I do love quality. If I’m honest, I have to admit that there were many years of being involved…
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Feeling the Hurt
But not sad This past week, I’ve had the opportunity to share and speak with dozens of people on the subject of pain, difficult life situations, wounds, discouragement, depression, grief… and the reality of navigating and walking with these aspects of life without losing the joy that Christ gives. In this world, there is no…
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Pride Month
Genuine Love Can Disagree As someone who is passionate about truth and hates controversy… As someone who believes what God says is truth, regardless of how I feel… As someone who has faced intense anger this week because I questioned why a friend believes what she believes… My heart and mind have been working in…
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Ministry Update
Dear Friends! Today’s blog entry is a little different, but necessary. I want to begin by thanking each of you who have been faithful readers of The Forgotten Woman Blog. I’m constantly working to improve the format and site, and writing as much as I can. You know my goal is to encourage others while…
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Technology BAD
The Evils of that Phone in Your Hand Yep. We’re gonna tackle this subject – one that seems to be gaining in popularity among various demographics of society. Y’all know that I spend a lot of time with people who are Christians, and many of us are understandably concerned about the influences that we bring…
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In The Midst
In My Head To be honest; I’m not sure if I’ll ever publish this article and I’ll warn you now that it will be random, raw, and maybe even contain some things that readers don’t understand. If I do publish it; it will be for the sole purpose of authentically exploring and sharing. Who we…
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Is This Going to Matter…
In Eternity To begin today, let me give you just a little bit of transparent insight into the mind and life of a blogger like me… I’ve been trying to write this article now for two weeks and the problem hasn’t been about forming words or sentences or ideas: it’s been about sitting down and…
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You’ve Been Sued
When God is The Judge and Goes Before You I’m not even sure where to begin with today’s article but I’m going to attempt to share a very personal part of my life over the past year and a half without exposing anyone and their part in this experience. Challenging, yes; but hopefully not impossible!…
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My Broken Mind
Yes, There is Hope One of the reasons emotional and verbal abuse so dangerous is because the damage is not visible to the eye, may be ignored and even denied until the damage is so deep that it has affected every area of life and because it literally rewires the brain. The answer for the…
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It’s TAR!
Don’t Worry about it; It’s TOO Badly Soiled “What’s that all over your sweatshirt, son?” “Oh, that’s tar.” “Well, give it to me and let me see if I can get it off!” “Mom, it’s ruined. I didn’t realize what we were doing at work today or I wouldn’t have worn it, but it’s too…
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I’m So Excited!
A Short Public Service Announcement Bear with me for just a moment while I address those who have joined my Scripture Memory Group – I like to think of it more as a team! A team of individuals determined to renew our minds daily and encourage one another in the process! Y’all!!! We have surpassed…
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I Just Don’t Have Time
Another Personal Story I’m guessing that most of us would consider ourselves “busy” by anyone’s measurement. Our busy seems to change from season to season but let’s face it: we live in a world that is pushing and pulling from all directions and well; we often get stuck in the whirlwind of ‘doing’. Of course,…
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That Unknown Work
We’ve Underestimated the Value! Oh, friends; we know the Scripture verses – “Pray without ceasing,” “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” “If ye have faith and doubt not, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall receive.” “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him.” There are so many more…
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My Stinkin Mind
RENEW THAT THING Well, we’ve come through the end of the year holiday season and my heart is so full of all that God is teaching me. This morning I had to go to court again – yes, I’m being sued by a stranger and while it isn’t something I talk about; it is certainly…
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The Forgotten Woman Vision 2025
What we are doing and asking God for in 2025 It’s incredible to think that 2024 is coming to a close, and we are getting ready to embark on a new year. This is always a great time to evaluate, reevaluate, and communicate with those who pray for us and support us in life and…
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Forgiveness God’s Way
Why is it so hard? When I embarked on what I call my forgiveness journey a couple of years ago, I had no idea that the depths of forgiveness God’s way looks nothing like what I had understood for most of my life! Two years into this journey and I am still learning day in…
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Smile With Me
Saul to Paul On this Monday I hope to share a little story that makes a few points but will also make you smile. In order for it to make sense, I’ll need to give you a little bit of background. One of the things that my children and I enjoy doing is discussing, debating,…
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LOVE
Unconditional? My heart wants to love like Jesus. Over the past few years in reflecting and studying the subject, my thoughts have led me to a conclusion. We hear the term “unconditional love” often when someone is speaking of God’s love for us, or the love we should have for one another. Unconditional love as…
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Personal Failure
Again? Really? On this third week of July 2024, I find that I am battling my “self” again! I can’t compare myself to the Apostle Paul in many ways but when he said, “The things I want to do, I don’t do and the things I don’t want to do, I do…” I can completely…
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“Poor Me!”
What’s That Banner You’re Wearing? Most of us are familiar with the idea of the sash draped across the shoulder of a beauty pageant winner, or a graduate, or award winner of some sort. The sash is a banner declaring a title to the wearer: right? Whenever the person who has earned the title desires…
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That Speech, Though
I Bet You’ve Heard of the Chief’s Kicker Now! Unless you have been intentionally disconnected from the cultural screams this past week, then you are aware of the commencement speech made by Harrison Butker. His words have caused quite a stir and some of you are quite tired of hearing about it. To you, I…
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