Something Musta Happened
By Ronnie Wyatt
A story is told of an old pioneer that traveled westward across the Great Plains until he came to an abrupt halt at the edge of the Grand Canyon. He gawked at the sight before him: a vast chasm one mile down, eighteen miles across, and more than a hundred miles long! He gasped, "Something musta happened here!"
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The Christmas Nest
By LaWanda Bailey
Shattered. Caroline's life lay in jagged pieces on Christmas Eve. She had dressed her young children in party clothes and handed them over like wrapped gifts to their father for the holiday. Alone, she thought. With the kids gone, even Santa won't stop by.
Refreshing Our Perspective on Prayer
October 24, 2023 by admin
Filed under Family Focus
By Sarah Onderdonk
desensitize vb: to make insensitive or non-reactive to a sensitizing agent (1)
Familiarity with things can desensitize us. I used to be fearful of the highway commute from my suburban Texas home to downtown Dallas where I attend seminary. You could shoot a Dirty Harry movie on stretches of Dallas roadway and years spent cruising around lazy-river-like suburban roads with the kids had not prepared me for a 75-mile round trip alongside commuters who drive like they're going after blinking Pac Man fruit. After, ahem, a number of years now spent in slow pursuit of my degree, the fangs of the highway commute have sanded down a bit. Today, it's just a long drive in a car and, to be honest, some days it might seem like I'm going after the fruit. You see, I've been desensitized to the fear because it is now familiar to me.
Christmas Rush Brings Super Specials
October 23, 2023 by admin
Filed under Faith, Faith Articles
By Pam Kumpe
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
(Isaiah 52:7 NIV)
Do you love Christmas? Is it a time of joy and enjoying family, or a time of stress for you?
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