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Do I Live Life Like I Believe it’s Under the Lordship of Christ?

August 20, 2022
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| Categories: Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Jesus, Stress, Trusting God, Uncategorized

August of 2020 seems so long ago, but I’m revisiting a post from back then because it was such an uncertain time. As I face some new unknowns over the next month, I want to remember some things I learned during that first year or two of Covid. I remember spending more time outside and seeing truths about God through nature. I also remember how brave my friend, Suzanne, was. She continued to trust God in all the unknowns of that time as she worked with many sick patients in an assisted living center. Join me this…

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Am I Aware of My Constant Need for Grace?

November 13, 2021
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I felt the tug of the strong, Outer Banks current on us and I knew we were in trouble. My daughter and I had been enjoying the rough surf with our new boogie boards on our first full day at the beach. I failed to notice the lone, yellow, caution flag hidden between our hotel and another. Each morning I looked for a flag on the beach, never seeing one. Each morning there actually was one, but it was inconspicuously planted between two buildings.

It was a yellow flag day and I…

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The Rescuer and a Rescue Giveway

July 5, 2015
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| Categories: Parenting

Lamentations 3:19

It’s the day before VBS, folks.  My mind is occupied by thoughts of crafts.  I will be eyeballs deep in kids, clay and paint this week. Our Vacation Bible School director says it every year.  “It’s the Lord’s Vacation Bible School.  If He wants it to go on, He will provide.”  Every year He does provide for this little country church and this provision has been an example to me in my own personal life to trust for God’s provision.  Our director’s words also remind me that He has…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 4: The Importance and Rewards, Day 3: A Rich Inheritance

December 19, 2012
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Pierre, Jean-Baptiste-Marie, Nativity

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Romans 9:3-5

“3. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.”

Do you ever find yourself being disappointed with Christmas? …

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