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Responding to “false doctrine”
Recently, one of my favorite Christian authors, Glennon Doyle Melton, announced that she had divorced her husband of 14 years and is now in a relationship with a woman. This, just a few months after another of my favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Evangelism, Fear, Love, PERSONAL, Serving Others
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Faith Unraveled
. I thought salvation [meant] having the right opinions about God and that fighting the good fight of faith [required] defending those opinions at all costs. I was a fundamentalist because my security and self-worth and sense of purpose in … Continue reading
Posted in Consecration, Daybook, Evangelism, Faith, Love, Perfectionism, PERSONAL, Salvation, Victory Journal
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How can they know if no one goes and tells them?
One question particularly troubled me after each suicide bombing, one I’d been asking for years: Did anyone present Jesus to that young person who blew himself up? Who was going to the terrorists? Was anyone prepared to confront them and … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Fear, Love, Salvation
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The Syrian Refugee crisis: we all have a choice to make
(photo source) At various times in our lives, my husband and I have looked at the decisions other families have made in their walk with Jesus and said – “NOPE.” Not us. Not ever. To our friends who left the … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Faith, Fear, Love, Parenting, PERSONAL, Serving Others, Spiritual Warfare
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Greater Love
“I could have got more. I could have got more. I threw away so much money. You have no idea…” 780 million people around the world lack basic water sanitation, which results in disease, death, wastewater for drinking and loss … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Love, PERSONAL, Stewardship
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I Miss Him
Those may be the most powerful words I’ve ever heard anybody say. I was speaking with a friend of mine, a friend who had introduced me to Jesus years ago but was now claiming to be agnostic (or athiest, or … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Faith, Love, PERSONAL, Salvation
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What I Want
I went digging through some old articles tonight and came across this one, from the blog Kisses from Katie, written by a woman who left her home in Tennessee when she was just 18 years old to travel to Uganda. … Continue reading
Posted in Consecration, Evangelism, Faith, Inspirational, Love, PERSONAL
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