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Sleeping in Church

This was a hard season for our marriage.  Alcoholism was a large part of the problem, but I had my role in the dysfunction as…

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Spiritual Glasses

This is a different kind of blog post.  There was nothing significant going on that I remember, and I had just started writing in my…

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Posted in Christian Living Emotions Parenting

When Their Pain Becomes Your Own

When your kids grow up and get married or settled in a career they are happy with, You rejoice for them and sigh in relief….

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Posted in Bible Christian Living Share Your Faith

What’s in a Name?

Many of you may recognize this banner from our church or maybe from some other place. It was in our sanctuary for many years and…

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Posted in Christian Living Prayer Relationships

Imperfect is Okay

My oldest son got a paper route when he was about twelve. Every morning before school he would deliver the newspaper to the neighbors on…

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So Glad to Be Home

I had been in the hospital for four days from a gallbladder surgery complication.  While under anesthesia my heart rate dropped to about 25 so…

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Posted in Christian Living Parenting Share Your Faith Teaching

Love the People, Hate the Sin.

By the time our children were ready to go to school my husband and I were both believers. We wanted their teachers to have a…

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Would I Be Better in a Different Church?

This entry is sort of a part two to my last post, “A Time of Blah.”  I was still feeling sort of blah and wrote…

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A Time of Blahness

It feels sort of sacrilegious to use the term ‘blah’ in connection with God but the blahness has to do with me, not God!  I’m…

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Posted in Christian Living Family Parenting Prayer

Get the Verses ~ Pray the Verses

I had been talking to the Lord about whatever was going on with me on this Saturday afternoon in 2013.  I was happy because I…

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