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His Valentine

Posted by on Feb 13, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement | 11 comments

His Valentine

“I have loved you with an everlasting love…”  Jeremiah 31:3 Tripping through life, tossed and torn here and there, we manage to lose it, to leak it.  Where’d it go?  Where’s joy? Instead of bubbling out, it fizzles flat, leaving us without a wave or a pat.  We’re dry, needing a tune up in order to bloom up. Maybe we need to wake up, inhale the rush of salvation.  Christ’s...

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Put on your Dancing Shoes

Posted by on Feb 9, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement, Scripture | 4 comments

Put on your Dancing Shoes

The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand. Psalms 37:23,24 About that disappointment you’re feeling…  God’s working behind the scenes to make it a God-appointment.  That’s Sovereignty.  There are no missteps, only His steps; no detours, only God-tours. Rejoice in...

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God’s A Planner

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Comfort, Devotional, Encouragement, Scripture | 0 comments

God’s A Planner

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 Satan is our disaster-planner, but he’s not the writer of our future.  God is.  Best of all, God is into the details, right down to our cellular level. Consider the word disaster.  An “aster” is a star-shaped structure that forms...

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Dear God, Why Can’t I Have a Baby?

Posted by on Sep 12, 2011 in Blog, Comfort, Encouragement | 3 comments

Dear God, Why Can’t I Have a Baby?

  One in six couples suffer with infertility, feeling ostracized and alone. “Too make matters worse,” says Janet Thompson, “few churches offer support groups to counsel this large overlooked group.” After surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst at age twenty-one and newly engaged, the doctor told Janet that her ovaries were cystic and looked like those of a 90-year-old woman. ...

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Relax When People Are Dying?

Posted by on Apr 6, 2011 in Blog, Encouragement, Quotes | 2 comments

Relax When People Are Dying?

“The perseverance of the saints consists in ever new beginnings.”  ~ Alexander Whyte Staring like a morning zombie at the last bucket-sized mound of Minnesota snow in our backyard, I collapse on our family swing and enjoy the budding trees and chorusing birds.  Ah, yes…  Finally the semblance of spring! Why can’t every day be a bird-chirping, sit-in-the sun kind of day?  Who invented...

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