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Continue reading →: a plea for the Spirit when I’m tiredThis is not going to be well edited. It’s late. And I’m tired. Some days I’m just tired of bearing with the sins of others. I know it’s ridiculously hypocritical because others are having to bear with my sins. And I know God is faithful and doesn’t grow tired and…
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Continue reading →: The glory of motherhood is ChristYesterday on Twitter I wrote, “Motherhood is the Shadow. Christians discipling others in Christ is the substance.” Today I spent the morning chasing shadows. All the Hallmark ideas about being a mom were a no go at my house today. Fifteen years of raising sons in a hard, “even if”…
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Continue reading →: Death tried to sting Grandma tonight. But Jesus…Night number two with Grandma. She’s more lucid this evening. Every time I’ve ever walked into her home I’ve always heard the same sugary-sweet Arkansas accented greeting, “Well hello there sweet heart!” Her eyes light up and she smiles like she knows everything that’s going on in my life before…
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Continue reading →: We weren’t meant to dieI’m sitting here on this lazyboy in my grandma’s apartment watching her breath while she sleeps on the couch. The television is playing dvd’s she’s created over the years with pictures of all that’s important to her- her family. Hymns and songs of worship that help her feel God’s pleasure…
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Continue reading →: Nurses, you’re doing God’s work!The idea of serving others in Christianity is unique in that it’s not the lowly who are called to serve because of their low position. The call to serve is for those who would be the greatest. When Jesus was describing the unique way his people would lead, he said:…
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Continue reading →: Will Christian nurses lead the way in providing healthcare for the marginalized?In the days of the Norwegian awakening in 1850, the revival of faith in Christ among Christians sparked a birth of an order of service to the sick and poor. The Kaiserswerth deaconesses began serving their communities as trained nurses out of a renewed joy of their salvation in…
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Continue reading →: Hope for moms raising kids against the odds“No father-no family-no faith. Winning and keeping men is essential to the community of faith and vital to the work of all mothers and the future salvation of our children.” (Lowe, 2003). I recently ran across this statement in an article born out of statistics gathered in Switzerland in the…
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Continue reading →: Hope grows where the light shinesThe tension was thick. My husband and I sat opposite ends of a 6 foot couch and 23 years of piled up trouble from each other in a last ditch effort to save our marriage. “Well, what about you? Your wife shared where she thinks some of her wrong thinking…
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Continue reading →: The needy in the American Church won’t always be forgotten: Meditation on Psalm 9
When I was pregnant I noticed everyone who was pregnant. When I had a 1969 Volkswagen bug, I noticed everyone with a classic Bug. And today, when the fire in my belly is still burning from the issue of abuse and the message Christian leaders like Paige Patterson send women,…
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Continue reading →: Messages women need to hear from leading men in the conservative evangelical ChurchStatements from the president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson, have stirred up a dark message I heard as a young girl and still hear as a 43 year old woman in the conservative evangelical American church. The message goes something like this: Being a Christ-like means being passive,…
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