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Offerings of Faith

Living in a country that’s not (yet) in lockdown, I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of love and faith in our daily lives. When the coronavirus outbreak started...

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

Less than the best?

A short devotional on giving God the place He deserves in our hearts.

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

When the pigs went swimming...

The story of Jesus and the Gerasene demoniac has always puzzled me. Why did Jesus give the demons what they wanted? There are a few possibilities...

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

Variety: The Spice of Life...

We all go through periods when our devotional lives feel stale, we struggle to pray with passion, and we long for deep, meaningful connection with our Heavenly Father...

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

Cherished Crumbs

Reading devotions in the book of Mark, I recently came across the story of Jesus and the widow with two coins...

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

Our Common Addiction

As 2019 comes to a close, we are saying goodbye not only to a year, but to a decade. The past ten years have been chock-full of learning, but as I cast my mind back over all those lessons, there’s one that stands above the others...

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

Manageable?

Today I want to take a moment to share a thought with you that seems especially profound to me right now. It concerns a memory of a time when we still lived in Canada permanently.

by Valerie

Ministry

Learning from Concussion

If you’re like me, you love learning—especially from experience, whether your own or others’.

During this time when I’ve been healing from my concussion, I’ve been learning loads about how the brain works. I thought that today I would share some of these things with you, in case you’re interested.

by Valerie

Ministry

Concussion Update

We plan to keep updating this post on health progress until we're able to return to Japan.

by Valerie

Spiritual Insights

The Ideal Woman

If you’ve attended church for more than a year, you’ve probably heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. Along with King Lemuel (her husband), pastors around the world hold her up as a paradigm of feminine virtue. And why not? This is one impressive lady!

by Valerie

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