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Letting God Work, Even When You Feel “Un-Spiritual”
If you remember, I have suffered through a pretty dark depression all summer. To be honest, my relationship with God was dry because I was living in this fog of self-loathing and pity. Every virtual...
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Christmas Is Full Of Grace And Truth
The truth about Jesus’ birth was that it was perfectly divine and yet perfectly earthly. On the one hand, you have glorious angels proclaiming the arrival of Messiah. You have God come in the flesh...
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Others Before Self
I have a problem. I suspect that you have the same issue in your life, although you might not be eager to admit it. When you get to the deep down inner me – I am horribly selfish. Shocking? Well,...
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Adjusting Well – It Hasn’t Hit Me Yet
Even though I look out over a vast city every time I peer out the window, it hasn’t hit me yet. Even though I use a different language, currency, and transportation method – it still hasn’t hit me yet....
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Classroom Of Life: Learning From Disagreement
Knowledge is basically just an agreement with the world on a set of truths. In order to truly learn anything new, you must push past agreement into the realm of disagreement. You must push and prod,...
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Who is to blame? Our immodest rape culture.
Rape has been all over the news and social media this week. And rightly so – because it’s an issue that is often thrown under the proverbial bus in both popular and Christian culture. You have probably...
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Family Ministry – Caring For Our Neighbor
Jesus said that we would always have the poor and needy among us (Mark 14:7). While that is not an uplifting thought that I like to dwell on, we have been faced with that reality at almost every place...
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Letting God Work, Even When You Feel “Un-Spiritual”
If you remember, I have suffered through a pretty dark depression all summer. To be honest, my relationship with God was dry because I was living in this fog of self-loathing and pity. Every virtual...
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When you can’t process grief well
Things have been quiet on the blog this month. We’ve gotten one message after another informing us of events going on back home in the states. Both Jay and I lost a close family member in the past 2...
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Why the Lego Movie Was (not for lack of a better word) Awesome!
If you and your kids come over to our house to play and hang out, you will quickly realize that we love legos. But we don’t love them in the “I have this set built and you can never touch it or take it...
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Understand These 5 Things About Me: A Military Spouse
I was messing around on the backside of the blog yesterday and decided I would go through the draft posts I had started but never finished. Usually an idea comes from a conversation or a thought and I...
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Saying Goodbye to Korea, Saying Hello to Oklahoma!
Hello again my friends! The past couple of months have been a roller-coaster ride of emotions. If you didn’t already know, our time in Korea was cut short due to Jay being selected for a job at Fort...
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Christmas Gift Ideas (Under $20) for Scouts, Campers, Backpackers, and...
Gadgets and gear for people that love the outdoors This past year both of the girls have become involved in scouts, which means that I have stepped up to help. We’ve had an exciting year of camping,...
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