the friends you choose determine your success
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The Friends You Choose Determine Your Success

 By Stephanie Scheller– In early 2012 I attended two wealth-building/personal-growth seminars back to back in my hometown. While the information I learned at both seminars was great, I actually learned something more valuable when I realized that many of the attendees at the first seminar were also in attendance at

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What's the name of your fig leaf
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Lynn Mosher

What’s the Name of Your Fig Leaf?

By Lynn Mosher– Do you hide behind a fig leaf as Adam and Eve did? Life in the garden! An opulent home for earth’s first inhabitants. The garden of creation was God’s kingdom on earth, which contained health, wealth, welfare, safety, prosperity, peace, all God’s plan of provision. Of all

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home - why we need it more
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HOME – Why We Need it More Than Ever

By Nancie Carmichael – “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door…”–inscription on the Statue of Liberty I stopped in the middle of

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finding a selah moment
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Finding the Selah Moment

By Nancy Kay Grace – Selah, a Hebrew word is regarded as a musical term indicating a pause or interlude. Beyond its musical implication, it can be a pause or rest for us in the activity of life. A Selah moment would be a time to pause and reflect in

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Wade and Vicky Mears
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Love Again After 50

By Wade Mears – On November 23, 2010, I lost my beloved wife of 27 years to pneumonia. God became closer to me than I had ever experienced before in my lifetime. It was through Him and the love and support of our church family at Lighthouse Baptist Church in

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living the warrior wife life
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Heather Duzan

Living the Warrior Wife Life

By Heather Duzan–    Today, just three days beyond my 42nd wedding anniversary, my husband dropped me off at my Aunties to live for a few months. He then returned to our home of 30 years to work a bit and prepare us financially for an interstate move.  He wants to live in

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Don't Bite Into the Apple
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Kim Chaffin

Don’t Bite Into the Apple

By Kim Chaffin – Some of the biggest lies we believe start with a little bit of truth. If you don’t believe me just take a look at Eve. Thanks to the serpent, Eve bit into one of the biggest lies in the history of the world.   Now the

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Empty Nest Syndrome
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Empty Nest Syndrome – Life After the Kids Leave

By Lysa Barry – What is Empty Nest Syndrome? Definition: Is it a real psychological condition to be reckoned with or just a natural process of life? Empty Nest Syndrome refers to feelings of depression, sadness, and/or grief experienced by parents and caregivers after children come of age and leave their childhood

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whom shall I fear
Faith
Marta Greenman

Jehovah Sabaoth

By Marta Greenman – The Lord of Hosts – The Lord of Angel Armies Have you ever thought you really wanted something, yet when you received your heart’s desire you realized this was not what you expected? That was me in May 2013. It was my second trip to Albania

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Love letter from heaven
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Stop Struggling to Find Acceptance or Recognition

By Mari Plank –As a Life Coach I believe most Christian women struggle with believing God’s unconditional love and acceptance resulting in insecurity and depleted worth and value. The evidence is in all the ways we try and fill that deep need for affirmation, recognition or approval.  Get out of the

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3 simple ways to reconnect with your spouse
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3 Simple Ways to Reconnect with Your Spouse

By Judith R. Barnes − Between hobbies, friends, and obligations at work or home, carving out quality time with your significant other can easily fall by the wayside. Even those couples whose children have already flown the coop often experience an absence of connection with their partners, despite having the freedom to

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this time - a clock on city street
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Sarah Meece

This Time…

By Sarah Meece – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 When I opened the local newspaper recently the headline stated: HEROIN USE UP BY 68% OVER LAST YEAR. In the article, a desperate mother

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Triumphing Over a Legacy of Unforgiveness

By Deborah Smith Pegues – When I was a child, I heard my mother and father argued frequently about things that happened or had been said in the far, far distant past. They served faithfully and sacrificially inside and outside the walls of the church. Nevertheless, a spirit of unforgiveness

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How will you want to be remembered
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Kelli Parisian

How Will You Be Remembered?

By Kelli Parisian– When you reach a certain age, and attend enough Memorials/Celebrations of Life, you begin to ponder the topic of death more often, and more seriously. People will say death is a part of life, but when it hits close to home, this statement seems sadly insufficient.  

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List fatigue
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Katherine Swarts

List Fatigue

By Katherine Swarts – The dictionary definition of “fatigue” is “extreme tiredness, typically resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.” In today’s society, fatigue seems an illness in its own right. And like cancer, it has sufficient notoriety and versatility to rate subdivision into multiple categories: one hears of compassion fatigue,

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loving others
Faith
Kim Chaffin

Don’t Hold Back

By Kim Chaffin – Growing up we spent a lot of time at our family cabin in Priest Lake, Idaho. My great grandfather had a vision of a place where generations in the future could come and relax. Since 1947, our family has been enjoying my great grandfather’s cabin. At

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wander out of the way
Faith
Lynn Mosher

Wander Out of the Way

By Lynn Mosher− Sometimes, a verse of Scripture stops me in my tracks. I sit in silence, staring at it and allowing it to soak deep within me. I search my Bible program, concordances, Lexicons, and commentaries to collect what I can for deeper understanding. One of my recent ponderings

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An Interview with Kim Vogel Sawyer, Author of When Grace Sings

Bestselling author Kim Vogel Sawyer believes in the power of second chances – a theme she’s captured with poignant grace in her new book, When Grace Sings (WaterBrook Press/March 17, 2015/ISBN: 978-0307731333/ $14.99), which follows the CBA  bestseller When Mercy Rains in The Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy. Sawyer says the series

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Whole hearted creative artists
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How to Become a “Whole Hearted” Creative Artist

By Kathleen Cooke – It takes guts to be creative in today’s culture. That nagging little voice in our head is always telling us we aren’t good enough, talented enough, or trained enough. One of my favorite writers on the subject is Brene Brown. She is a brilliant researcher and

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