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When Life Throws You a Curveball

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when everything is humming smoothly along and you know what to expect? It’s like landing on that sweet spot on the Candy Land path that gives you a shortcut to win the game. Or, how about a time when things have been the same for so long, you actually pray for a change? Those can be good times full of solidarity, security and simplicity. Just when you think nothing in your life will ever change…Life throws you a curveball. Someone who you love suddenly dies, or you lose your job unexpectedly, or how about when a good thing happens to you like …

Don’t Hit the Panic Button — All Is Well!

2 Kings 4:26. “. . . ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’ And she answered, ‘It is well.’” How do you respond when things in your world fall apart? The natural reaction is to panic when disaster strikes, but what if there were another response? Raising godly children in this culture is not an easy job. The distractions of the media, school requirements, reading material, dress styles, and even the influence of friends and peers can wreak havoc on our attempts to keep them safe and God-focused. In considering …

When Your Husband is Snared by Sexual Sin

When our husbands are snared in sexual sin, where do we go for answers? Click To Tweet Cassie’s life reflected peaceful perfection. Three beautiful young kids, a stylish new home, all topped off with her handsome husband she adored. They met and fell head-over-heels in love at the young age of eighteen, and now ten years later were joyfully living out the American dream. Until, that is, venomous pictures popped up without warning early one morning. Images spilling from the screen, forgotten to be deleted from the computer’s history, reached out tearing into this sheltered young mother’s soul. Her tranquil, in-control …

Paddling Against the Current

Have you ever tried to paddle a boat upstream? It’s extremely difficult. When I was twenty-two-years-old, I was kayaking with a friend down south in the Keys. I was paddling as hard as I could upstream to get back through the inlet and to the boat landing. We had been paddling for several hours, and I was wiped out and dehydrated. I could feel the muscles in my arms burning. I was like a salmon coming home to its nesting grounds, pink, sunburnt and haggard. I reached a moment during that paddle that I didn’t think I could make it any further. I could see …

When the Christmas Season Hurts

What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Usually just saying the word Christmas brings up a bounty of fun family memories – snow, family, the smell of a fresh cut tree and yet this year, for many people just the thought of the Christmas season brings tears to their eyes. What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Practical tips to make it through this Christmas. Click To Tweet It’s a powerful parallel, on one hand there are millions of people everywhere that are full of the Christmas spirit. You know who they are, they just can’t help themselves, they have …

Pointing Our Children to Jesus This Season

God gave us the best gift in Jesus Christ. Sometimes I think we miss it. We miss the Gift. We miss Him, forgetting to point our children to Jesus. Rather, we get caught up in the gifts we want to give and get this year–the best one ever to fill up perceived needs. Commercialism has sold us a bill of goods that tells us we must give our children what they want, what they ask for or they will be scarred for life. Well, I can tell you truly. We have gone several years NOT getting them what they asked for, …

Be Still and Know That I am God

Stop! Slow down! In this crazy, busy holiday season, try to take time to be still with Jesus. In all of the running around, parties, and all of the holiday commitments we keep, I think we often forget what we are celebrating and why we are buying gifts for others….remember Jesus’s birth. Remember the reason for the season. Don’t let the BUSYNESS of the holiday season steal you away from the real joy of Christmas. Try to take time out to spend with Jesus first and your family here on earth second. God commands us to “Be still, and know that I am God. …

5 Things You Can’t Buy on Black Friday (or any other day)

It’s here. Black Friday! The day when stores are bursting at the seams with bustling shoppers searching for the deal of the day for that special gift for someone they love. Advertisers are well aware of the Black Friday frenzy, so they seize the season as an opportunity to get their client’s piece of the multi-billion dollar pie. Although I’m not a shopper, I’m definitely a Black Friday fan. But while we are all out there thinking about the things we want to get for our family and friends, let’s be sure to remember some of the things that you can’t buy …

Why I Wrote Please God Don’t Let Me Screw This Up! by Guest, Lyette Reback

Twenty-one years old, I sat holding my six-day-old baby. I realized that, quite frankly, I had made a mess of my life up to now. The only thing I had gotten right so far was convincing this wonderful man next to me that I was a catch worth keeping, and somehow got him to marry me! I was a handful as a kid—smart-mouthed and cute enough to talk my way out of most scrapes. I had walked through life about as gracefully as a bull in a china shop. Politely “released” from boarding school in 7th grade, I figured out …

Limitless Wisdom

James 1:5-6 “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.” Parenting is a job that takes infinite wisdom. From the moment our babies our born, our experience, patience, and endurance are taxed to the limit. Even all the books that are out there cannot help us with every situation we will face in the …

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