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While God is the Author, you are the writer of your story. Come allow faith, hope, and love to abide in you in the Person of Jesus Christ.


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  • By the Scruff of the Neck

    (Author’s note:  Today marks the fourth anniversary of my brother’s untimely death. While I have read a river of books and devotionals on grief, I do not claim to be an expert. I just know that eventually we will all experience the ebb and flow of emotions that accompany any significant loss, especially death. Yet

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  • McDonald’s, McJesus, or Just Plain Jesus?

    When I was a little girl, one of my adolescent aspirations was to work for, you guessed it, McDonald’s! Go ahead and laugh. Looking back, it is quite hilarious and yet, through the eyes of this child, there was something captivating about the fast food powerhouse. Maybe it was the free Smurf glasses (who else

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  • Willing Participants

    Sometimes our circumstances may feel more like a crisis hostage situation. We feel trapped in the responsibility and chaos of it all. Yet, while sin still tries to hold our thoughts hostage, Christ already paid the ransom for our souls. This truth remains, and calls out to us from the cross. . . Arise. Rise up. Stand

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  • Let God Love You

    Like a string of pearls fashioned by the friction of sand and time, life may seem but an array of chronological moments shaped by the tension between joy and pain. Yet in moments of sorrow or panic, sheer bliss or mundane task, know this. You are not defined by mere moments. You were not created

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  • The Journey Begins

    Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

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