How Does God See Me?
What is your relationship like with God? Do you feel safe, connected, and deeply loved? Or, do you spend a lot of time wondering about the question,...
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Understanding the Healing of Soul Wounds
Feeling depressed, offended, rejected, or having other negative feelings is puzzling to Christians. “Why do I feel like this after I accepted...
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The Hard Times Make You Stronger
Hard Times Come To Us All Several prayer requests came to me this morning from groups of people with whom I am involved – people sick with...
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Let Us Stop Fighting and Start Listening
All of us have had those times when we’ve tried to share our hearts, explain our feelings, and have felt we were not heard. “Who really...
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How to Let Go of the Past
“I Regret My Life Choices” Who does not have those moments of saying, “if only?” “If only…I had finished school… taken...
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How Doing the Right Thing Brings Peace
My family has a folk hero. He was known as Judge Thomas. He was a man that taught that doing the right thing brings peace. Now he was not a real...
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How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times
When things are terribly tough, when all the world seems to be crashing down around you, what can you do? One thing you might do is gaze at those...
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How to Recover Your Hope in Hard Times
We watched the news this morning as picture after picture was shown of the tornado wreckage in multiple states. The governor of Mississippi was...
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Jesus Said, “Remember Me”
This morning my husband and I shared communion at home and prayed for many people and for nations. We take communion a lot because we have come to...
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God, Make Me Brave for Life
The author of the poem, A Prayer for Courage, was Grace Noll Crowell. Though she died in 1969 (born in 1877), and was quite beloved, I had not heard...
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What Does the Bible Say About Fear?
Bible verses about fear are the primary weapon we have with which to fight fear. The promise of scripture is that God will help us overcome and...
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Can God Help Me Out of Debt to Live More Securely?
Bible verses about debt are of great interest to people in addiction recovery. One of the huge issues for them is paying past debts incurred from...
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What Does the Bible Say About Loneliness
Today is Valentine’s Day 2020. I hope you are having a wonderful day and that you’re surrounded by loved ones and friends. But I...
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How Can I Have More Faith?
God Helps Us Have Faith Driving the other day, I pulled up behind a car with a license plate that read, “Feith.” And next to it the...
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How to Help a Loved One With Addiction
A Mother’s Broken Heart Over Her Addicted Daughter This past October, I had the chance to listen to former judge, Linda Davis, speak at a...
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How to Recognize God’s Presence
God’s Presence in Our Lives When I went to seminary to become a pastor, one of our very first assignments was to remember a time when God had...
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Prophetic Word for 2020
The Year of Greater Clarity I have been sensing what is in store for the coming year and what needs to be done to align myself/ourselves with where...
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How Do I Keep My Faith Strong?
“For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God…” 2 Timothy 1:6 NIV We’ve just finished the 2019 World...
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What Does the Bible Say About Anxiety
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the...
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Five Keys to Powerful Biblical Meditation
“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” Psalm 119:105 NIV In my book, Jesus and the Addict, I describe a period in my...
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