As a preacher’s kid, Heidi has seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of church life in ways that broke her but ultimately drove her to…
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I was ambushed in a parking lot recently. Don’t worry, it wasn’t a carjacking! My granddaughters and I had almost reached our…
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For most of my life, I looked forward to the final six weeks of the year, full of holiday cheer, beginning with Mom’s November…
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They’re gone. That was often my first waking thought in the days after Dad’s passing. The reality settled over my sorrowing…
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I wasn’t with my husband when he passed away. I was holding Mom’s hand when she took her last breath. Given
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I was in elementary school when Mom, Dad, and I went to Myrtle Beach for the first of many family beach vacations. One evening…
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A decade or so ago, I discovered the joys of feeding the birds that frequent my wooded property. Cardinals, chickadees, woodpeckers, nut hatches, and…
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Wife to thirty-eight year old Ray, a young mother of two girls, ages 7 and 10, Patsy thought she knew God’s plans…
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Is there any greater provision we have than the nearness of the Lord? It’s amazing we can call on Him any time we…
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"I really rocked it today!" That is the lie I often tell myself rather than believing the truth that God is the One who has upheld…
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Stories of kings, queens, and kingdoms fascinate me. Living in America means I cannot fully understand the idea…
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God's gracious character in preserving Israel is recounted in these verses, just as it is in Exodus 34:6 during the covenant renewal…
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Remember. This word occurs often in Scripture as God wants His people to keep pointing future generations to His saving…
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Have you ever found a passage of Scripture that you keep going back to over and over again? Join me this week…
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I have always been struck by the inclusion of “those not yet born” in God’s call to His people to “go and tell” about His…
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Jesus spoke the beatitudes as a pronouncement of blessing for the present and a storehouse of trust for the future. Blessed gems they were,…
Isaac understood contention, having experienced it within his family among his parents, with his wife, and between his twin sons, and outside…
Abraham had first heard God’s promise of a son by Sarah 24 years prior. Was this walking and waiting command after 13 years…
Jesus entered the city and made His way through, measured and purposeful. Zaccheus was almost frenetic, his desire…
Streaked and flocked clouds, suspended, hold their shape in predawn stillness, hovering. The measure of time passing is the new…