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Are you bold or timid in your prayer life? I am a wishy-washy prayer warrior! I go back and forth between the two depending on where I am in my own faith journey, the amount of sleep I had the night before and whether or not I am in a season of joy or crisis. […]
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A guest post by Valerie Murray It’s garbage day and once again our garbage is overflowing with bags that don’t fit into the cans. That’s how life, in general, feels for me lately. Things are piling up—the laundry, the emails, the errands. And my to-do list just gets longer, even though I’m crossing things off.
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I don’t know what happens when you hear God calling you to something, but I typically do what Jonah did. I run the other way. Especially when it doesn’t fit into my tidy plans. Sometimes I run so hard and so far that I fill the calendar with a million other little things to avoid
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I’ve been reading through the birth narrative and the beautiful redemption story that unfolds in Matthew and Luke the past few weeks, and I just keep thinking about how messy the events leading up to the first Christmas really were. Our Redeemer was born in a stable. With earthly parents on the run to ensure
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Did you get super excited for Christmas as a kid? Especially when it came to presents? I sure did! Every year Mom would ask me what I wanted for Christmas and I’d write down a list that could fill a football stadium. All those toys and gadgets brought such temporary joy into my life. But
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I don’t know how it was growing up in your home around Christmas, but Santa and baby Jesus fought for top billing in our home every Christmas. Until I caught mom and dad in the act one Christmas Eve “helping” Santa out with cookie eating and gift delivery. Score a victory for Detective Nicki that
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I never thought I’d be able to honestly tell you that I’ve found so much to be thankful for related to infertility I have faced over the years. Notice, I did NOT say that I am thankful FOR infertility, but that I have found ways to be thankful IN the thick of it. The reality
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I love how the Lord takes all the broken messy pieces of our lives and weaves them into something beautiful, to be used for His glory. I love how the trials we face do not define who we are, but the way we face them (with or without Jesus) does. I love how God uses
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