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Continue reading →: Will the Seed grow?
So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby. -John 19:42 NKJV It’s Saturday. Yesterday and Thursday my heart was meditative upon the Cross of my Lord. This morning I’m reading through the Preparation day accounts in the gospels and thinking about waiting…
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Continue reading →: Who would have thought?
1 Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this? 2 The servant grew up before God – a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a…
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Continue reading →: Preparing to Remember
Today I’m preparing to remember what the blood of Christ, my Passover Lamb, did for me. I’ll be remembering, reflecting, meditating… worshipping in the presence of children who only know the story through me, and with a listening Philippian jailer. I’m praying for an earthquake! I’m praying for walls to…
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Continue reading →: Standing at the cross of my Captain
“Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him,…
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Continue reading →: I was born here
“Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone,…
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Continue reading →: April’s Giveaway
I can’t believe it’s April! I love this month. It’s one of my favorite months of the year. Here in the desert the cacti are blooming spectacular flowers and the whether is not yet blistering hot. Also my firstborn’s birthday starts off this month. And for the past two years…
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Continue reading →: Confessions: Pet sin
***(I just have note that my friend, after originally writing this post helped me more accurately jog my memory as to when this event happened in the past… not 11 years ago but more like 8 or 9. I know it really doesn’t matter, but since it was brought to…
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Continue reading →: Our Passover and Easter
Last year a passionate desire began in me to really stop to remember our Passover Lamb- Christ. We had our first Passover seder and it was great, but it was a bit lengthy. I so wanted to savor ever little bit of meaning in each of the emblems in the…
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Continue reading →: The Triune Ministry of Homemaking: Building Relationships
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. – Proverbs 14:1 NIV Of all the things that homemaking is, it is essentially the building up of relationships for God’s glory. The relationship between a husband and wife is a model of…
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Continue reading →: What keeps me where I am?
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn as a disciple of Christ is that after knowing the freedom granted me in Christ comes a test of willingness to limit what I can do, not by law, but by the love of Christ. Paul said while he was in…
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