devotional
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Quote of the Week
If the world controls your thinking, you are a conformer; if God controls your thinking, you are a transformer.” Warren Wiersbe As a child of the ’80’s, with the Transformers’ cartoon and toys, this quote made me giggle just a… Continue reading
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Do Not Fear
My favorite story of a ‘do not fear’ verse is Jesus calming the storm. I have always loved watching thunderstorms from the safety of my house. I love to see the power of God at work in the wind and… Continue reading
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Community
My favorite part of visiting Boston was that the Lexington Green, where the militia trained and where the first shot of the Revolutionary War took place, is still a place where the community gathers. While we there, around dinner time,… Continue reading
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Learning from Nature
As a Bible quizzer in high school, I memorized Romans. I probably understood about half of it at the time 😉 One verse I particularly struggled with was Romans 1:20 NIV: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible… Continue reading
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Gratitude Even If
God has such a way of giving us an opportunity to practice what He is teaching us. I wrote a post about perspective, and God immediately gave me some real life practice. My husband is a K9 officer and two… Continue reading
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Perspective
My youngest daughter gave me a lesson on perspective yesterday morning. As I was enjoying my morning coffee before taking her to a marching band practice for a Memorial Day parade, she started screaming about a giant spider. I came… Continue reading
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The Boy Scout Motto
As I was falling asleep the other night, thinking about what I needed to do to get children’s ministry spaces ready for Sunday morning and thinking how mundane that is, the Holy Spirit reminded me that even little preparation tasks… Continue reading
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Spring!
This time of year I get excited and want to plant and grow everything, completely forgetting that I have a black thumb and that I lose all my desire to garden by mid-July. Anybody else do this? I am slowly… Continue reading
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Happy Mother’s Day!
I love that the preschool lesson for Sunday school this morning is about manna. Two of God’s gifts that no one did anything to earn- manna and mamas. And aunts, grandmas, neighbors and teachers. Happy Mother’s Day! Exodus 16:12 NIV… Continue reading
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Finding Courage in My Own History
Have you ever been stopped by something that was so simple that it was profound? This quote did it for me: God planted the tree that Zacchaeus would have needed 20-50 years before he needed it – amazing! He also… Continue reading
