Category: Faith
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Summer Reading List: What’s On Yours?
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Oh Summer. Pause for affectionate sigh. Pools. Water balloons. Late nights catching lightening bugs, grilling out, and movies at the park. Just feeling the sun against my face makes summer quite glorious, but reading–books on my beloved summer reading list–is like the cherry on top of this season. This year…
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Fearless Faith: Lesson Learned from a 3 Year Old
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Fearless Faith? Isn’t faith void of fear? Maybe for you, but for me, faith is more like looking down at a canyon bottom knowing the only way to cross is to jump, believing I can make it–if I can work up the courage, but so scared to try. As…
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Freedom: Our Best and Worst Enemy
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln I couldn’t help but throw in a historical quote. Sometimes it’s better to let the historian in me get its way from time to time.…
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A New Creation: More Than Your Pinterest Worthy Self
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Something Old, Something New. Something or Someone Refurbished, Maybe…Like You? “You want me to what?” My Dad listened as I tried to explain the vision I had for an old window found in my in-laws attic. “You know, Dad. Make it look old.” Not to brag, but my Dad’s a…
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A Fighting Faith Video Blog: Justified War from a Christian’s Perspective
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There was a time in my life when I thought being a Christian, and a soldier seemed like an oxymoron. It was hard to mesh the idea of taking a life in a war situation, and still be a Christian. Yes, I know there are many occasions when God mandated war…
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First World Problems…I got too many!
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http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/gXCsRlpbqPM&source=uds Complaining. Yes, I’ve done my share of it. The lady at Starbucks put sugar in my coffee when I specifically asked for NO SUGAR! My neighbor’s yard looks way better than my lawn. Ugh. Birthing two children sucked the calcium from my teeth, and now I have to use…
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Stronger Than We Think: Encouragment for Moms
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“I don’t know how you all do it.” Many civilian women/moms say to me. “I could never be without my husband for that long. I’d go insane.” Ha! What makes them think I’m not insane? There are days I teeter on the edge of insanity. I’m sure my kids would…
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Held Hostage: The Martin & Gracia Burnham Story
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pic from mannaexpress.com I’m patriotic. It kind of comes with the whole Army Wife/Life deal. For God and Country, yes, but I have to admit, push come to shove, it’s God who I’m siding with. Nations come and go, but God’s kingdom lasts forever. I’d fight along side my husband…
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It’s a Great Weekend to Free Slaves: Spotlight on The International Justice Mission
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Our Nation May be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, but Slavery Still Exists Around the World. Sex trafficking or the sex slave trade is a growing pandemic around the world. In a letter to our President, the International Justice Mission states, “an estimated 27 million…
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Biblical UNICORNS!!
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Taken from http://www.bbspot.com/news/2005/01/tsunami_relief.html What did I MOST want as a little girl?? A UNICORN!! I seriously begged God for a Unicorn!! Good grief those creatures are crazy beautiful! May I ask, what young girl wouldn’t want one? My precious one horned stallion would have been named Bellerella, after all of my two…