Let me set the scene for you. Pastor Chip walked into my office and closed the door. This is one of those moments in life when I'll never forget the details. I said to him…
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When I was in college, I went on a student-led mission trip to Nicaragua to partner with a local ministry that planted churches and trained pastors. We decided that we were going to take as many suitcases as our fundraising would pay for, and we filled them with gifts: toys, clothes, and candy. The house we used to stage our charitable efforts looked like…
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The other day I read a news article about a 5th grader named Ruby that came up with an idea to bless the residents of the nursing home where her mother works. One day, when…
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Despite what many of us tend to believe before we enter into a marriage relationship, marriage is not “warm and fuzzy feelings” all of the time. I realized this important piece of information nearly seventeen years ago as I was standing with my husband of less than two weeks in the middle of a grocery store in Northern Virginia fighting over…
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At the start of the new year, you probably made a list of resolutions filled with health goals and things you hope to achieve by the end of 2019. Somewhere on that list, you wrote down “Have a better quiet time” or “Read my Bible more,” and just like with the other resolutions on your list, you started strong, with new enthusiasm…
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Let's talk about two words that keep flying around my head like a relentless gnat: fascination and wonder…
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