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The Land Between

As I’ve been going through this period where energy is elusive, a friend of ours recommended a sermon series called “The Land Between”. Whether you’ve lost your job, you’re having problems with your kids or spouse, or you’ve encountered health problems...

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The Skill of Thankfulness

What we do now affects our future.

Whole books and movies, TV shows, plays, poems, and philosophy classes have been dedicated to those seven little words.

Most of us recognize them as true, at least from an intellectual standpoint, but are we living them right now?

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by Valerie

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Bearing Up?

A meditation on the true source of our strength, no matter what our circumstances.

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by Valerie

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The Hope of Heaven

“Priming” is a word used by psychologists to describe how exposure to one word, image, or idea can influence how people respond to related words, images, or ideas that they encounter later. For example...

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by Valerie

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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...

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by Valerie

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Less than the best?

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

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by Valerie

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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...

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by Valerie

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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...

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by Valerie

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Cherished Crumbs

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

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by Valerie

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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...

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