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Trusting God in All Things – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act. (Psalm 37:5 ESV) Friend to Friend A few seconds seemed like an eternity as I tapped my fingers on the bathroom counter. Would the line be a plus or minus? Waiting on a few

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What You and Wonder Woman Have In Common – Daily Devotional

God, knock the teeth out of their mouths. (Psalm 58:6) Friend to Friend In the first few moments of the movie we watched her light up and ask hard questions as her beautiful mama told her stories at bedtime. Brave curiosity and fearless adventure twinkled in her eyes as she

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A Shameless Audacity – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever (Psalm 136:2, NIV).  Friend to Friend I want it all. I want everything God has for me. However, I don’t believe my life really reflects that attitude. I tend to settle for so much less than

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Moving T-H-R-O-U-G-H Your Scars – Daily Devotional

So, the other disciples told [Thomas], “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks [scars] in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side [scar], I will not believe” (John 20:25, NIV)>  He was

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Trading In Your Green Stamps – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV).

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It’s All About Who You Know – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Before I made you in your mother’s womb, I chose you (Jeremiah 1:5, NCV)  Friend to Friend We adopted Miss Becky and she adopted us. My husband was the pastor of a church in South Florida and our family lived in Texas. Miss Becky became a grandmother

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Miracles and the Making of Real Faith – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – When He had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, He broke them and gave them to His disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so … The people ate and were satisfied. (Mark 8:6, 8a, NIV). Friend to Friend The Gospel of Mark says

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Giving Thanks in All Things – Daily Devotional

Dail yDevotional – “These (trials) have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (1 Peter 1:7, NIV).  Friend to Friend I

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Silencing Voices of Division – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy. (Psalm 67:4) Friend to Friend I’m obsessed with gymnastics and figure skating. Obsessed. For two weeks, every four years. You know… like everyone else in America… when the Winter Olympics games come around. Pour me a bowl of

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Learning to Listen – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – “Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord; open your ears to what He has to say.” (Jeremiah 9:20a, NLT) Friend to Friend For many years I led a small group of sixth-grade girls, and we often talked about issues going on in their middle-school lives. One

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The Scab You Just Won’t Stop Picking – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – “One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:5-6 NIV) Friend to Friend Five-year-old Brooke was sitting in

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I Wish I Could’ve Stopped It – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – He has preserved our lives and kept our feet from slipping. (Psalm 66:9, NIV) Friend to Friend Church camp helps young hearts feel held, healed, loved, and seen by an immortal, invisible God. It did for me as a teen and for my children as well. There’s just something

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Jesus Is on Your Side – Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional – Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail (Luke 22:31-32, NIV). Friend to Friend If I made a list of all the things that I want to thank Jesus for, this

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The Gift of Giving – Part 2 Daily Devotional

I will provide for their needs before they ask, and I will help them while they are still asking for help (Isaiah 65:24, NCV). Friend to Friend Despite a very shaky start, the weekend could not have gone any better! (If you have not read yesterday’s devotion, stop where you

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The Gift of Giving – Daily Devotional

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you (Luke 6:38, NIV).  Friend to Friend My requirements for a car are simple and

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Get Over Yourself, Already! – Daily Devotional

Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border…” (1 Chronicles 4:10 ESV) Friend to Friend Years ago I worked with a woman in Nashville named Cindy. She was a no-nonsense publisher for a major music company. Each month she listened

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Our God of Second Chances – Daily Devotional

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him” (Luke 15:20 NIV).  Friend to Friend Perhaps one of the most memorable and heart-touching stories of grace

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An Unlikely Servant

The Lord answered him, ‘I will be with you. It will seem as if the Midianites you are fighting are only one man’ (Judges 6:16, NCV).  Friend to Friend I was born to be an elementary school teacher – period. So, when a total stranger tapped me on the shoulder

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Generosity is a Privilege

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor. (Proverbs 22:9, NKJV)     Friend to Friend It was a generous act that got my attention. After I was done speaking at a conference, a teenage boy asked to speak with me

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