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Karen DeArmond-Gardner

Chaos to Castles

By Karen Gardner DeArmond – Come. Come away with me. Listen to my voice. Pulling her into the desert, he begins speaking softly to her, pouring out his heart. O’ how I have loved you, even as you gave yourself to other men. You turned your eyes from me and

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Andy & Janine Mason

Three Keys to Win in Life (Part 2)

Last week we started on Three Keys to Win in Life. Life and going after your dreams is like running a race. You are the only one who can run your race. So how do you run to win, to obtain your prize? How do you win in life? Do

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Kathy Howard

Battle Against Excess – Tune Out!

I have become a bit of a recluse. The writing ministry started it and I let it happen. I spend tons of time working at home alone. I communicate with people through email, Facebook, and Facetime. I do more “relating” online than I do in real life. For a while,

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Lynn Baber

Live, Laugh, Love, and Always Be Prepared

Each day is a gift to be opened with expectation, joy, and love – unless you just aren’t a morning person and would rather rip into the day with a scowl as you wipe goop from the corner of your eyes and have no higher hope than to make it

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Mona Shriver

Is God Disappointed in You?

By Mona Shriver— Do you ever mourn that you’ve disappointed God? You made a wrong choice. Responded in a way that you know did not glorify Him. Didn’t read your Bible or pray enough. I have. More times than I’d like to admit. Last week as I was leaving Bible

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Poppy Smith

You Can Thrive Emotionally – Part 1

By Poppy Smith – Be Alert to Your Emotions When Regina Brett of Ohio turned 90 years old, she looked back over the years and wrote a list of 45 lessons life had taught her.  Here are seven of them: Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Your

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Nadia Comaneci
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My Purpose Now

Training To Win!

By Jayme Hull— As a child my family loved to sit in the family room night after night and watch the Summer Olympic games on the television. Do you recall the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal? One of my favorite categories then and now is the Women’s Gymnastics. Exactly 37

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Janet Denison

Obesity. Should We Keep Our Mouths Shut?

By Janet Denison – I just finished reading a CNN editorial about the American Medical Association’s decision to label obesity as a disease. It was an interesting, well researched article but it made me wonder – what is the appropriate Christian response to the issue? Should we even speak of

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Kathy Howard

They Are Watching You

You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. These lines open the CBS Thursday night show “Person of Interest.” I don’t know anything about a secret government machine, but you are being watched. Every hour of every

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Carolyn Henderson

In the Body of Christ, Are You a Toe, Mouth, or Elbow?

By Carolyn Henderson – This may be hard to believe, but sometimes I go weeks without thinking about the big toe on my left foot. And then one day, a wrenching pain will originate at the toe and shoot its way up nerve pathways to my brain, and everything with

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Poppy Smith

Inspiring You to Thrive: 4 Essentials for Spiritual Health

After my diagnosis of pneumonia, I received lots of advice. I was told to rest. To relax. To sleep. To eat nourishing food. And above all, to be patient!  I’m still being patient—full recovery seems a bit far away, but I’m definitely better than I was. If there are basic

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Sandra Glahn

How to Influence the “Secular Media”

By Sandra Glahn – A Gallup Poll revealed last September that “Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this year.” A full 60% of us have “little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Mostly, it’s conservatives (47%) thinking the media is too

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Thistle Cove Farm

Ponder This

Someone said, “My idea of hell is the thought that I have to live in the world you seem itching to put together.” “We have become increasingly an audience waiting to be entertained. Never before have we been able to live in a world with so many forms of unreality.”

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Kathy Howard

Loose Lips Sink Ships and Ruin Lots of Other Stuff Too

By Kathy Howard – During wartime, soldiers and sailors have to carefully watch what they say. Sometimes what they think are harmless, casual remarks can give the enemy information to use against them. For instance, sailors on shore leave can get too chatty and accidentally spill facts that lead to

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My Purpose Now

Profiles in (RE)Purpose-Eunice

By Cheri Cowell— We first hear of Eunice during Paul’s second missionary journey. We don’t learn about her directly, but indirectly through Paul and her famous son, Timothy. In Scripture we read that a young man named Timothy “who was the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but

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Poppy Smith

You Can Thrive – Take Care of Yourself!

“Poppy, I’m sorry to tell you this,” said my doctor, “but our tests show you’re no longer considered glucose intolerant. You’re officially a diabetic. This means you need to pay attention to your diet. You absolutely must exercise, watch your stress, and get adequate rest.  And, by the way, watch

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My Purpose Now

Profiles in (RE)Purpose-Phoebe

By Cheri Cowell— Phoebe is only mentioned once in the Bible. It is believed that Phoebe was entrusted with the task of hand-delivering Paul’s Letter to the Romans. In Romans 16:1-2 Paul recommends that the leaders of the Roman church receive Phoebe with the respect accorded a minister of the church.

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Andy & Janine Mason

What If You Just Did It?

I am persuaded that it is not lack of information or education or even desire that is hindering us doing something with our lives. To quote a friend: “Most of us are educated beyond our level of obedience” (Mike Frank). What if you just did it? What if you stopped

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Mending My Soul

I expected an interesting season as I walked through my 59th year, heading towards the next decade like a bullet train. The last thing I anticipated was to walk back through my past. Yes, my past. The ugly past. I have walked through so much healing, but quite frankly most

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Living In The Temple

She was married for only seven years, and had lived as a widow for forty-four. Denied motherhood, she spent all her time in the Temple, probably holding the place of a deaconess. She lived apart from material things and “served God with fasting and prayers night and day,” (Luke 2:37)

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