So Grateful for this Beautiful Family!
Nell, Grace, Rebekah, Naomi - a long line of awesome moms
how I approach worry and heavy burdens
the beauty of life, and the truth that God loves us with such generosity and grace.
“Random photos that make me smile” day!
Today's random photos come from Uzbekistan, Dunn, Florida, Richmond, and Wake Forest. What they all have in common is that they make me smile.
the absolute inclusivity of the Good News
The amazing redemptive power of hope is literally saturating the air around us, infiltrating the trees and penetrating the soil.
A Thanksgiving Meditation – our intention to be Grateful People
once activated, gratitude seems to take on a life of its own...
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God’s huge capacity to love – listening to a teenager pray…
Feature image (above): “Passing the peace at WFPC” But if we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from everything we’ve done wrong. – 1 John 1:9 This morning, with the echoes of hate and confusion still ringing in our ears, I’d like to encourage all…
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God’s Wide-Open Love (out of the mouths of babes…)
today I'd like to invite the rest of us - the adults who tend to complicate the message - to allow the beautiful blessedness of God's wide-open invitation to light our countenances too.
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Living with enthusiasm and joy! (The Grandaddy Letters)
This is what, in the grownup world, we call a paradox. A paradox is when something looks like it should do one thing, but it turns out to do something quite the opposite.
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“and hope does not disappoint…”
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering…
a letter to my grandson on his first week at school
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” – Matthew 19:14 Monday, with one more significant turn of the time machine, our grandson, David, went to preschool for the first time. “Bye, Mommy! I love you!” he…
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