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Word of the Year 2024
This will be my 10th year of having a word for the year, rather than resolutions. I heard about this idea of choosing a word to focus on for the next year during my first year living as a missionary in Honduras, and it has since become an annual practice. If you are not familiar with…
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The Christmas Story: From Sarah to Mary
Matthew begins his telling of the Christmas story with a genealogy that most people probably skip right over. He starts with a summary: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). The family line was traced through the males, but for us ladies, I want…
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Christmas Reading and Prayer Calendar
If you used the prayer calendar I created for November, I hope you’ve enjoyed it and it has brought you closer to God! (And if you missed it, you can find it here and use it any month!) For December I have created another calendar that includes alternating days of reading from the Christmas story…
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Breath Prayer
Have you heard of breath prayer? These are typically short, one or two sentence prayers rooted in Scripture that you can focus on and pray as you simply inhale and exhale. To be totally honest, I am not sure where this idea came from originally, or when I first learned about it, but it is…
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The Holy Spirit’s Role in Prayer
Have you ever had a time where you wanted to pray for something, but just didn’t have the words? Or maybe you weren’t sure if the thing you wanted and were praying for was really what God wanted for you. I can think of countless examples in my own life that fit these two scenarios,…
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A Month of Prayer
This past month a did a prayer challenge from Val Marie Paper that helped my prayer life get a little refresh. Her prompts had me praying for different things in different ways, and I want to keep that prayer momentum going! So I created a prayer calendar of my own for the month of November,…
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God is Faithful to His Word
When I was in college, I went with my home church on a week-long mission trip to Honduras where we did Vacation Bible School type programs in some villages, and I loved it. Long story short, I got connected to a school in a different area of Honduras that provided free Christian bilingual education to…
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Book Rec: God of All Things
I recently finished a book called God of All Things: Rediscovering the Sacred in an Everyday World by Andrew Wilson. This was the first book I have read by this author, but it has rocked my world. I think I first heard of it on a podcast I listen to, and the forward was written…
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Don’t Despise Discipline
This summer I am leading a group through my Wise Worship study on the book of Proverbs, and in reading back through, these two verses from chapter 3 have stuck with me. If you are familiar with the book of Proverbs, you know it is all about wisdom, and these verses deal with the wisdom…
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Delighting in God’s Word
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 This is one of those “feel good,” often quoted, coffee cup verses. But what does it mean REALLY? Is David, the author of this Psalm, really saying God will give us everything we could ever want, as this…
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