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Prayers of Thankfulness

Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with a glad heart. I am so pleased that you have continued on in this with us, believing and proclaiming God’s Message, from the day you heard it right up to the present. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day...

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Heroes of Faith

Boo Heflin, Bettye Simms, Charles McIlveene, Helen Waldrop, George Steere, Darryl Totten and Mark Cook. If I were to write a personal version of Hebrews 11, each of these names would be on the list as heroes of the faith. Hebrews 11 is often referred to as “The Faith Chapter.” The writer puts together a long list of the heroes of the Christian faith, listing a name followed by how their faith was displayed. For example, “By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he...

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The Beauty of Community

On September 1, we celebrated my mom’s 91st birthday – ice cream, cake, BBQ and kale salad. (Who could ask for better than kale salad?) Truthfully, I love when I see so many generations in one room enjoying the presence of each other. Watching so many gather around my mom and lavish love on her and watching those same people gather around her great grandbaby of 13 months and lavish love on him was certainly a highlight. Watching that gentle, abundant love across the generations...

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