Tag: Week 1 // Monday

Famous Last Words

I was just nineteen years old when my mum died after a very short illness. Although it has been a long time now, I still remember our conversation and the final words she spoke to me on the night before she died. They are precious words that I treasure. They

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Temporary vs. Eternal Treasures

Over in the Blink of an Eye Have you ever spent a lot of time and money on planning and executing an event such as a wedding, a work event, a birthday party, etc.? How did you feel when it was over? Did you feel like it measured up to

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Waiting, Hoping, Trusting

The Main Characters One of the things I really look forward to every Christmas season is the annual nativity play with the kids in church. Of course there are the main characters, Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus, but then you add in a few shepherds, wise men, angels, the inn keeper,

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The Master Potter

As God Sees Fit When my kids were young, they loved playing with play-doh and Perler beads. I love watching the things they would create! Plates full of pasta, rainbows, super heroes… but sometimes they didn’t like their own creations. They were stuck. They would get frustrated, upset, and mad.

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The Last Days

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

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Thankfulness in Motherhood

God’s Design Motherhood was God’s idea. Before it was a dream in a little girls’ heart, it was conceived by our Creator. In fact, it was the way that He designed humans to build His kingdom, by filling the earth with children!  In Genesis 1:27-28, we read that God created

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The Best is Yet to Come

Friend, living in the brokenness and sin of our world is hard. I know there are days when our hearts long for heaven, and our minds need rest. Rest from the “what ifs,” rest from the fears, and rest from the unknown. Learning to navigate through seasons of uncertainty, change,

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Attuned to Christ

In a culture that is all about making sure your needs are met, choosing to fast and deny yourself seems contrary to how we’re told to live. Yet, it also reminds us that this world is not our home. Jesus calls us to deny ourselves and follow Him, which was

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Making God’s Word a Priority

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good

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The Zeal of the Lord Will Accomplish This

I am so excited to begin this new study with all of you today! Advent is upon us. With the first Advent Sunday coming this week, I cannot think of a better way to prepare our hearts for this season than by diving into God’s Word with like-minded women from

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