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Is Praying it Safe Best?
It's easy to throw up cotton candy prayers that lack substance in traffic, in the shower, or as we run out the door to work. It's easy to stay on the safe side of petition by asking God for things that...
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Something Fresh
Most of us enjoy things that are fresh. There’s nothing quite like that first cup of coffee in the morning. Don't you enjoy wearing something new? Isn't it nice eating fresh, crisp lettuce or cracking...
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Oprah and a Big Orange Pot
After 25 years, yesterday was the airing of the last episode of the Oprah Winfrey television show. Everything has a beginning and an end, even Oprah. This Friday night my baby boys, aka the twins, are...
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Beloved!
It really is in the whisper. If I could sum up my experience last week at Scarritt-Bennett in Nashville, it would be that God is with us. Of course that is what Immanuel means (Matthew 1:23), right?...
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The Highest Compliment
Any husband who has told his pregnant wife -- especially while she is in childbirth -- "I know how you feel!" knows within seconds how dangerously wrong he was to say it. Yet the apostle Paul, a man...
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Writing on Tablets
I love being a writer, but it always leads to one fateful question: "What are you writing?" I used to be able to answer that. I could give you the one sentence summary of my book or a chapter by...
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The Work of My Father
Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working" (John 5:17)."My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work" (John...
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Boy vs. Coffee Mug
Mindless destruction irritates me. Which was all well and good until... Enter Boy. Boy was born with tendencies that could be written into quotes such as:If you build it tall enough, it will fall.If...
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The Second Batch
Imagine you are a seven-and-a half-year-old named Eleanor. You have brown, mid-length hair with matching brown eyes. Your grandmother has said more than once that you have a gentle and intelligent...
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Why Faith Is an Answer to Prayer and Prayer Is an Answer to Faith
Imagine if each time you had the urge to text, tweet, email, log onto Facebook, or phone a friend to share some heartfelt need, you stopped and prayed instead.Really prayed, trusting God to answer....
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No More Miss Nice Girl!
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue (Proverbs 31:26) I'll never forget this extremely cool guy I was into when I was nineteen and stationed in Germany....
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WOOHOO! Let's Do this Thing!
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28 NIV). Adventure! "Woo-Hoo! Let's Do This Thing!" Adventure... --...
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Where Is Your Olive Oil?
"How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" (2 Kings 4:2 NIV). I was sitting in my makeshift office one day lamenting over my financial state. After being laid off from a job I held...
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The 'How!' for hard Days
Special Note: The following comes to us through Ann Voskamp's A Holy Experience and from the heart of Joni Eareckson Tada. In a week where we have focused on tough things, hard things, and true...
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The Prize
There are times in our lives when troubles seem to fall faster than raindrops from a summer shower. There are times when we feel like if just one more thing goes wrong we won't be able to survive. It...
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Living the ultimate Romance
I watch you in the kitchen, slicing up a pie, summer evening sloping gold across your face.How do you know the moment when you love someone the most? I used to think it was that wild moment of crazy...
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The Real Love Stories... and Why There Really Are No Blurred Lines
It was the music pumping through the speakers at the optometrist's that made me see you clear for who you are. The lyrics kept thrumming loud when I was standing there with my thick glasses, waiting...
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When You're Missing Being Loved
"Each wheat head is full this year — large. Like that year when you were in France." He pulls out a long, slender stalk — shows me the wheat kernels filled out right to the end. France? The wheat, out...
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Pool of Mercy
Imagine you're holding your newborn son. Perfect in every way. No treasure rivals a healthy child, but a few weeks later, an uneasy feeling invades. Your son turns his head toward sounds, but his eyes...
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How to Put One Foot in Front of the Other
Some guy I ran into said you should walk through life as though your feet are kissing the earth. I tell him he really shouldn't use the word should. Yeah, the irony of that is not lost on me. But, hey,...
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