Words of Hope: Immeasurably More

I love Ephesians 3:14-21 and try to pray it every day. I love to go slowly through each verse imagining the person I am praying for. It is such a beautiful prayer. Each time I start I get secretly...

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Words of Hope:  Immeasurably More 

I love Ephesians 3:14-21 and try to pray it every day. I love to go slowly through each verse imagining the person I am praying for. It is such a beautiful prayer. Each time I start I get secretly...

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Words of Hope: Servant Leadership 

Leading up to Easter, our church participated in a foot washing service in remembrance of Jesus washing the feet of His disciples. I was selected to be one of the main people washing feet or assisting as members washed...

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Words of Hope: Helpless Take Heart

Hope is helpful if you find yourself in a position much like myself, helpless take heart are words that speak loudly. This sun-filled, blue-sky May morning inspired these words gleaned from David in Psalm 33 and 34. No one delights...

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Words of Hope: How to be Uncommon 

At a group I attended, a woman shared her story of hatred toward her stepfather. She said he verbally and emotionally abused her and made her teen years miserable. Now, as a mother of older children, she still cries...

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Words of Hope: A Teen’s Four Most Enemies

Military battles, sports, and music competitions all demand mind management and self-regulation skill training and development. It is said that elite, world-class stars in sports or the arts practice more than 10,000 hours. Soldiers also endure much practice. Yet, every...

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Words of Hope: In Celebration of Marrying Young

Shann and I will be married for thirty-five years this June. A young man asked us if we were glad we married young in light of so many people feeling they made mistakes by marrying too soon. Shann and...

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Words of Hope: Divine Imagination

In the Bible study Shann and I are part of, this week’s task is to spend time with a 10 year vision of what God is doing in your life and what He is asking of you. My dad...

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Words of Hope: A Simple Choice

Near Lidice, the town razed by the Nazis, the Children of Czechia invited the children of Germany to plant a rose garden. Fifty-one counties sent roses for them to plant, over 100,000 roses.   What am I bitter about right...

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