Tag: god
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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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When We Stop Talking…
Disaster! The state of the world we live in… and can you and I make a difference? There was a quote floating around last week that I think was attributed to Charlie Kirk and it was something to the effect of, “When we stop talking, that is when violence begins!” I was also reading this…
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Too Much?
Am I Being Too Transparent Here? If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, then you are fully aware that I believe in transparency – honesty to the degree that we can actually understand one another and learn together. Well, today you may decide that I’m being a little too honest, 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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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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The Hornet’s Nest
Seen and Unseen Enemies Have you heard about the birds and the bees? I mean the hornets and the bees and how active and mad they are this year? I kept hearing people talk about this and wondered what I was missing. And then, I discovered exactly what they were discussing! About two weeks ago,…
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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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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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Helene / California Fires
Such Heartbreak! Quiet time at home allows for more than usual video watching – and it is truly heartbreaking to see the devestation from the fires in California. Besides heartbreaking, it’s frustrating to feel helpless – and that’s what I feel. It’s the same feeling I had when here in WNC we experienced Helene. Gratitude…
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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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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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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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Who Has Hurt you Most?
Pray for them! This morning on social media I shared a thought that we’ve been discussing in our Bible study on Forgiveness: I basically said, “I dare you to pray for the one who has hurt you most!” I’m writing this morning for a couple of reasons – one is in response to something that…
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Moms (and Dads) at Prayer
When we are Weary “I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God: which is your reasonable service.” How is your heart today? Have you ever noticed like me that there are times in our Christian lives that we feel like…
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