Second Half Strategies

By Nancie Carmichael – …This part of the journey does not require tools for building as much as it requires tools for letting go. Our family loves watching football—and we especially love “our” Oregon Ducks. I’m intrigued to see that in many games, the Ducks come out to play the

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So He Says…

By Janelle Alberts – Over a woman’s prayer breakfast the other day, I asked around the table for input about the power of God’s word. Specifically, did anyone want to comment on powerful verses they turned to in times of need? “Yes!” said one friend. “The one about how God

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Listening to the Spirit

By Peggy Lester – In the beginning of my missionary travels, I went to Mexico many times to the remote hill villages. Some of the projects were building churches, different stages in the building projects, i.e., from foundations to painting and/or reconstruction projects. Children’s ministry was usually a part of

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Giving Thanks

By Leona Salazar – I have lots to be thankful for and consider myself a very lucky lady. I’m married to the “bestest husband in the entire universe” and have a fantastic sister-in-law who’s more like a sister to me, her three children and their spouses, and my four grandnephews

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The Life-Changing World of Salvation

How to Receive Spiritual Healing-Excerpt By June Hunt – No one is “born” a bulimic, no one starts life a sex addict, no one comes into this world an alcoholic or a compulsive gambler, eater, or spender. Yet somehow along life’s tumultuous journey, we can become hooked on harmful, addictive

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Loss or Blessing?

By Lynn Mosher – Thanksgiving. Do we really give thanks? Maybe we should do as Robinson Crusoe did. In searching for something new to write about for Thanksgiving, I came across the writings of Daniel Defoe and his classic, fictitious character Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719. Defoe based

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The Wise Men…Star Witnesses

By Kathy Bruins – What do we know about the Wise Men? During the Christmas season, we are surrounded by images of three wise men or Magi visiting the baby Jesus in a stable. The Bible doesn’t tell the story this way. The false beliefs we have of the Magi,

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Guilt, Shame, and Grace

By Susan Lawrence – When a person changes and follows the Lord, guilt and shame is taken away. The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Our faces, then, are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to

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The Cause of Righteousness

By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, Jesus Christ is riding forth for the cause of righteousness because God’s solution for all our woes is to give us the gift of righteousness (Rom. 3:21-31). The last beatitude in Jesus Sermon on the Mount gives us a

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When Life’s Not Turning Out Like You Expected

By Marcia Moston – “This was not the life I had pictured for myself.”- Gladys Alyward, on becoming a mule handler and foot inspector in China. Ha! Hardly the outcome a young missionary would have envisioned for herself— and for some of us, the life we are living is not

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Ways to Success: 1st Step – Stop Procrastinating

By Olga Hermans – Many times I have heard people tell me they are just “waiting on God.” While it sounds very spiritual, self-sacrificing and honourable, I also find that more often than not it’s just a politically correct way of procrastinating or justifying indecision. Instead of gathering information, creating

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Never Stop Praying

By Peggy Lester – The young man stood far off in the distance just watching the activity. He was there, by the trees, every time we began our day. Some of our men had tried to approach him; but each time he would run. We discussed this young man as

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The Find

By Marcia Rotella – On this very typical Saturday bursting with creative energies, my perk seemed to have out-perked me a little sooner than expected. Price tag after price tag unloaded disappointment unto my sad little empty shopping cart and I started to sink in mid hunt. Are you familiar

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Can I Get A Boost?

Taken from, This is for YOU!: 31 Days of Life Changing Discoveries By Katrina Spigner – MY SON BEGAN his first year of college in mid-August. Although he was able to take many items with him from home, he was not able to take his car. As a result, it

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Following Through: What’s Your Excuse?

By Karen Jordan – “ … I refuse to sit around and wait for someone else to do what God has called me to do myself” (Josh Wilson, “I Refuse”). Are you ever tempted to just sit back and wait for someone else to do something, instead of doing it

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Are You Living Your Destiny?

By Peggy W. Lester – What does it mean to fulfill your God given destiny? I have shared several incidents that have made an eternal impact in my spiritual walk; maybe you have a few questions about your destiny. I thought I would share a few things that might help

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I’d love to but I can’t… I’m just too busy

By Erin Casey – What would you do if you weren’t too busy? If you had a free hour… or even a free day, what would you do with it? You may imagine that you’d read all the books and magazines that have been collecting dust in your home. Or

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Forgive and Forget?

By Brenda Neary – Forgive and forget…..Easier said than done isn’t it? However, since I know for sure that this chick has needed forgiveness from family, friends and most of all Our Heavenly Father, I have had to learn all about this challenging reality. When I look at the first

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Who is Your Nathan?

By Karen Lembo – One of the highlights of my summer was completing Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed: A Study of David by Priscilla Shirer, Beth Moore, and Kay Arthur with some Bible loving women at my church. How refreshing to be in the Word throughout the summer, when most everything else

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Beatitudes: Lesson 2

By Deborah Bateman – Matthew 5:5-6 Blessed [are] the meek: For they shall inherit the earth. Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: For they shall be filled. As Women of Wisdom, it is beneficial for us to study the Bible and see what God has to

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