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John Mark Miller: The Real Deal
Recently I had the privilege of interviewing John Mark Miller, a musician and writer who leads worship at First Baptist Church of Sunset, Texas. John Mark inspires and encourages other Christian...
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Is This Your Year of Freedom?
We’re continuing our series on becoming free… I recognize women who have tried to protect themselves by denying the truth of their past sexual abuse, domestic violence or a spouse’s sexual addiction....
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What Is Joy?
2014 was a rough year. Continuing illness from our house with mold, landlord issues, lack of employment, moving across country, saying goodbye to friends and family, and then a job loss took its toll...
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Farewell 2014
In the distance, fireworks staccato an overture to 2015. As this year comes to a close, I’m reflecting on all the difficulties, the challenges and the blessings of the previous year. Through it all,...
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Water Anyone?
We continue our series on deliverance from spiritual bondage… In our trouble, there is hope. Jesus is always waiting for us with open arms. And he finds ways to draw us to himself so we will want to...
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Why Pray?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? I don’t mean in a skeptical, it-won’t-do-anything kind of way. What I’m talking about is that deep searching of what prayer means. It’s not like God needs us...
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What’s Your Perspective?
Last week I slipped out for a morning walk as the sun crept up into the morning sky. Birds called, lizards skittered across the sidewalk and a couple squirrels chased each other up and around a tree. A...
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Mold Sickness continued…
The lab results came back positive. I did more research and found that the mold in my system is the same type used to kill people in biological warfare. So scientists know enough about mold to use it...
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How Can I Have Joy When My Life Stinks?
It depends on where your focus is. Every year, right after school lets out for the summer, our church hosts a week long day camp called VBS. Or as we affectionately call it “vibs.” In most parts,...
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Homosexuality – How Do We Handle Other’s Choices?
This post is my response comment on Diana Rasmussen’s site. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk – photo from Google Images My eleven year old son was on a field trip to a local amusement park with his class...
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Becoming Mary in a Martha World
Today I visited a friend. I dropped my daughter off to ride horses and ambled through country roads under marshmallow studded cerulean skies. Pastures rolled across the landscape embellished with the...
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What’s An Author to Do?
I confess I don’t have time to write a blog post today. The truth is I am in the final pages of my first novel and all the good stuff is happening. Since I never know what my characters may do,...
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God’s Not Dead, but Maybe “Christianity” Should Be
Are we shouting “crucify him?” Finally, after decades of complaints, prayers, token support and watching “B” Christian movies barely funded and with the best intentions, but not always much in the way...
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Who ARE You?
How many of us really know who we are? Most of us have been shaped by words spoken to us in anger or impatience or from another person’s broken perspective. Who of us didn’t have some kid or kids at...
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Missing In Action
The saga continues. Almost five years ago, within months of becoming a newlywed, I began to feel sick. Flu like. Tired. Nauseated. Dizzy. Headaches. At first I wondered if I could be pregnant. I mean,...
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Why Do You Write?
Yesterday, I opened an email from a follower of this blog and a reader of my new book, The Miracle of Us: Confessions of an Online Dater. My tears of joy could not be contained as I read how this...
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What is Intimacy?
Closeness. Familiarity. Seeing into the depth of someone. Allowing ourselves to be seen. Vulnerability. Who are you intimate with? A significant other? Your best friend? How intimate are you? Do you...
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Does This Mean War?
My daughter is studying the Civil War for history. As I’ve prepared her lessons, read books, directed her projects and watched Gone with the Wind and Shenandoah, I’ve been struck by the analogy to the...
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Dater Beware
The Miracle of Us: Confessions of an Online Dater has been so well received. I’m grateful, blessed and a little amazed at all the positive comments. People have said (or written) the following: “…great...
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What Does Your Spirit Long For?
I’m captivated by a song. Initially I heard it on the Christian radio stations I listen to, Air1 and K-Love. The chorus haunted me and each time I heard it, another part of the lyrics would grab my...
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