Is this rude awakening preparing the way for a Great Awakening?

I’ve been wondering about this. I’ve heard a few people mention that they believe this is true. I suspect it is! Great Awakening refers to 4 movements in our history when people “woke up” from spiritual slumber, experienced a profound sense of conviction and spiritual revival and became increasingly devoted to Jesus as Lord. The […]

The Secret to Giving in Uncertain Times

Dear friends, Can you identify with feeling that no matter how much you give to someone or to a cause you believe in, it will never be enough? I’m not just talking about money, I’m thinking about giving of yourself, your time, your efforts, your resources of any kind. I confess that sometimes I don’t […]

Turn Your Trials Into Treasure

Dear friends, I’ve been thinking about you, wondering how you are doing as this pandemic and all the trials related to it continue on. It has been several weeks now and we don’t know how much longer we will be in quarantine. It is an Easter like no other! Are you feeling weary, discouraged, tempted […]

12 Things that Build an Unshakeable Life

Dear friends, Can you feel the shaking going on? When so much change and uncertainty comes upon us so suddenly we can’t help but feel jostled by it. Like an earthquake suddenly shakes the ground under your feet, so these times are shaking us and our world. Listen to the words of this verse of […]

Is it Hard for You to Rest?

Dear friends, Many of you know the Biblical story of creation in Genesis. In the midst of all the doing, God demonstrates a very fundamental concept: BEING. He rested, and just WAS on the 7th day. It can be hard to “just BE”. If you try to take a time of rest, your mind can start […]

How to Win the War Against Peace

Dear friends, Did you know that we are in a war against peace? I see it everywhere. The enemy troops of fear and dread are marching on the warriors of peace and gratitude. In this international state of emergency we find ourselves in with the coronavirus people are falling prey to those enemy troops. There’s […]

Even though…Yet I will!

Dear friends, I’ve been thinking today about you all today as we face this nationwide, worldwide crisis with the coronavirus. This verse of Scripture has been coming to me, one where people from another era would have been experiencing some unusually difficult circumstances. Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no […]

Love Your Enemies

Dear friends, The passage of Scripture below is a challenging one. It’s something that doesn’t come naturally to us, something only God can help us do. 27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.  Luke […]

Million $ Lessons from $10 Mistakes

Dear friends, My husband Michael and I had the privilege of raising 5 wonderful children, now all grown, married and all but the youngest of them raising their own children. We feel so proud and blessed by them and our 12 grandchildren. There is a particular prayer we prayed from the time they were little. […]

Million $ Lessons from $10 Mistakes

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