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Bringing Good from Evil in Afghanistan

8/28/2021

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​This summer in Vacation Bible School we reenacted Saul’s conversion. We made gray paper chains and carried them to “Damascus.” We circled the room muttering threats against those awful Christians who kept preaching that God wanted us to trust in Jesus rather than follow a list of rules. 

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Giving Thanks to our Generous Provider

11/29/2020

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Yesterday I took a long walk in the woods, stopping to pray attributes of God at various benches, stumps and logs along the way like the one at the site of this photo. This entry on "God, our Generous Provider," from Honey from the Comb seemed especially appropriate for this week after Thanksgiving. After all our gratitude  should be greater than what one day a year can contain. With no one to see me there by the lake, I threw back my head and opened my mouth like a baby bird as I prayed, ready to receive from God all the blessings he has for me.

GENEROUS PROVIDER
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As great as God is, he reaches out to us generously and meets our needs beyond our imagining. As you meditate on these verses, thank him for his generosity to you and open your mouth like an infant to be filled.

 
I am the LORD your God, 
who brought you up out of Egypt. 
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. Psalm 81:10
 
Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all. 1 Chronicles 29:12
 
How abundant are the good things
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you bestow in the sight of all,
on those who take refuge in you. Psalm 31:19
 
The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Psalm 34:10
 
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; 
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold 
from those whose walk is blameless. Psalm 84:11
 
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! 
2 Corinthians 9:15
 
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32
 
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6: 33
 
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
 
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:7
 
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:7-11
 
What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived--
the things God has prepared 
for those who love him--
these are the things God has revealed to us 
by his Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:9 -10a
 
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9
 
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21
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Honey from the Comb

8/6/2020

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​Pandemic. 

Economic disaster. 

Social injustice. 

Fighting in the streets. 

​Not to mention personal struggles with relationships, 

health problems 
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and feelings of failure and inadequacy.


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To the Class of 2019

5/18/2019

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​​I’ve been teaching Sunday school to fourth through sixth graders for seven years now. The first kids I taught are graduating from high school this spring. Perhaps they won’t be thrust out into the world this week as they leave the auditorium, but by fall they will be more or less “on their own.”

​It’s a pretty scary world between #MeToo and 

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When Research Hits Home

4/3/2019

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​​My current WIP (work in progress) is about anger with God from the standpoint of a Bethlehem woman who loses her child in Herod’s massacre of the innocents. I’ve been doing a lot of reading about first-century Palestine, and having fun tracking down connections and the impact of the historical context on my characters. I am also on the lookout for books that deal with my theme. The first one I turned to was Philip Yancy’s Disappointment with God.

It’s a book worth multiple readings.

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Let's #Meetathisfeet Again

3/12/2018

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​This Wednesday, March 14, 2018, thousands of students and teachers plan to walk out of class at 10 AM for 17 minutes to mark the one-month anniversary of the shootings at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that took the lives of fourteen students and three staff. The walk-out is also a cry against gun violence and a call for legislators to “do something” to protect our communities.
 
Let us make Wednesday a day of prayer for God to open hearts to honestly talk about this problem and seek solutions that will protect all without infringing on the legitimate rights of any.

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Praying in Unison

2/22/2018

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​Did you join us in prayer on Wednesday, February 21? Maybe you didn’t choose to fast or dedicate the day to prayer, but I hope you spent some time holding up this broken nation before the God of the Universe.
 
I watched the morning news with the pause button in hand, so that I could stop and pray about individual news stories. My instinct was to curl up with a bowl of cereal or stick in a piece of toast as I watched; I wasn’t yet hungry enough to remember I was fasting.
 
I even found myself thanking the Lord for a stand by President Trump. He is calling for strengthening background checks and a ban on accessories that turn legal guns into assault weapons. So common sense that it should be bi-partisan.


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Being Still

11/15/2016

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​​I recently attended a women’s retreat sponsored by my home church at Country Lake Retreat Center, Underwood, Indiana. I went, thinking it would be a chance to see lots of old friends. There were a few, but mostly it was a time of meeting new friends—younger women who are picking up the torch of encouraging women in their walk of faith and running with it.

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Beth Moore Comes to South Korea (Sort of)

9/24/2015

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When I went to Korea to visit my daughter, I wasn't expecting to attend the Beth Moore Living Proof Simulcast, but a friend agreed to take Simeon for the day and we went. 

We were about 40 women in the conference room of the "Supergym", the largest gym on base. The local Protestant Women of the Chapel had invited the groups from other bases on the peninsula. A bus came from Yongsan in Seoul. They all wore little hats to identify themselves as a group. Erika will be moving to Yongsan in a few months so she was eager to meet them.

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A King Worth Serving

4/20/2015

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Ruins of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall.
I fell in love with King Arthur and the Matter of Britain (the whole cycle of stories that come out of that legend) in high school when we read Idylls of the King. The language of Tennyson, the mystery of a baby hidden away to be later revealed as the rightful ruler, the promise of his return in the hour of Britain’s greatest need all tugged at my imagination and made me desire more than anything that it be true.

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