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Making All Things New

I’m not one to make a big deal about New Year’s resolutions, but there’s something about a fresh start that appeals to me. I appreciate the prompt to refresh and renew. I enjoy setting new goals and working toward new challenges. This year I want to get rid of stuff. Somehow more stuff keeps finding its way into our lives and our home. It adds up quickly, and soon I feel overrun by all the stuff around me. Some days I can look beyond it and keep going...

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Resources for Growth in the New Year

With the kick-off of a new year, I LOVE looking for different things to learn and different resources to provide help in that learning. This is a great time to look back to assess areas of growth and development. It is also a great time to set goals for the physical, mental and spiritual growth that we would like to see in the year ahead.   “Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened...

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The Unwelcome Welcomer

"The unwelcome have become welcomers in the house of their God.”  - Strahan Coleman, Prayer Vol. 2  "God has a way of making city planners out of exiles. When prodigals become elders they share more wisely, lead with more humility and judge with greater compassion. When the unwelcomed are given the invitation to share, they tend to give more freely and with less care for differences because they know what it’s like to be isolated and alone, to be...

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