When I received this article assignment, I never imagined that before I even started writing the article, my dad would move to the land of…
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Finding Rivers in the Bottom of Valleys
I never knew a valley could be this deep. It doesn’t seem like a valley anymore, more like a pit. These past months I have…
View More Finding Rivers in the Bottom of ValleysCelebrity or Servant?
Our culture worships celebrities. Whether they are notorious for doing good or evil, we spend so much of our time scanning the tabloids in the…
View More Celebrity or Servant?Learning to Love Prayer Meetings
“But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way…” 2 Corinthians 6:4a I don’t love prayer meetings. Am I allowed to say that? …
View More Learning to Love Prayer MeetingsDouble-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted Cake
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 It was my 12th birthday and my mom’s 50th. (Yes, we share a…
View More Double-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted CakePrerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
View More Fruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual GiftsThe Results of Your Ministry are Unknown-So Pray
“This just in, friends – the results aren’t in.” To the one with an exploding church, trying to build a bigger building, trying to keep…
View More The Results of Your Ministry are Unknown-So PrayPraying for What is Lost
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10 Have you ever used the self-checkout lanes in Walmart? I…
View More Praying for What is LostPit Prayers: Tears & Triumph in Transition
Proverbs 14:13, “Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.” “Denna, did you forget your coffee? The mug…
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