I've never chosen "a word" for a year. Sometimes I think the Lord points me to a word as the year unfolds; it always feels a little presumptuous to choose a word before I even know what the year holds. But this year Compassion challenged its bloggers to choose one word 2016, and I think it's time. ...
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The start of this particular new year comes loaded with more change for me. After slogging through a season of transition already, you would think I would have this "change" thing down by now, but every "new thing" is a beast all its own. I can always use helpful tools. God has a way of giving us ...
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There was no shortage of the Christmas spirit that day. In my red sweater and red car, I mentally reviewed my holidays shopping list and hummed carols with the radio. I entered the lot according to the directional arrows, delighted to see a slanted slot opening up in front of Hobby Lobby. As if my ...
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I want to have a Christmas that is a success in God’s economy. So I take my wish list of “must have’s” and “do this every year’s” and I give them up to the Baby who gave Himself up to come down. Christmas in the eyes of our King is a season of worship. True worship leads away from our usual, ...
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This is a very noisy Christmas. Maybe it's because I have quiet in my life right now, or maybe it's because our world been confronted by a stream of tragedies in a short time. Christmas comes even when the world cries.
While we watch images of suffering and listen to the drone of rhetoric, our ...
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