Refreshing Our Perspective on Prayer
October 24, 2023 by admin
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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.
Do Not Worry
October 19, 2023 by admin
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By Kristy Hullett
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear…who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25, 27, 33-34
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What Is Conceived In Her
October 14, 2023 by admin
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By Marty Norman
Matthew 1:20 “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit…”(NIV). Can you imagine Joseph’s surprise and horror when he discovered Mary was pregnant -and not by him. I often wonder what his family said? What they thought?
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The Distant Harvest
October 9, 2023 by admin
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By Sarah Onderdonk
Vincent Van Gogh, the legendary artist whose paintings fetch astronomical amounts of money today, went to his grave having sold just one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles which resides today at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. I was reminded of this escalating "momentum" of one's life work following death as I consider the life of Abraham.
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The Very Hairs on our Heads
October 5, 2023 by admin
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By Jane Thornton
I thought it would never happen to us. In spite of my lack of diligence in housekeeping, our family took personal hygiene seriously. So, several years ago, when my daughter’s head itched madly, lice never occurred to me—until I saw a bug skitter through her hair.
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