Spiritual Growth
A Mother’s Worst Nightmare
Twelve days after celebrating her son Jordan’s wedding, Shirley Thiessen got the phone call every parent dreads. Her son, just 23 years old, had died in a workplace accident. Hours before the phone call that changed her life, Shirley purchased a beautiful black dress. Shirley said, “To think that the God of the universe would take care of...
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Waiting: A Passionate Pause At age 12 years and 11 months our middle son, Clark,...
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Gems Upon His Heart Did you know you are a precious gemstone upon the heart...
When the Holy Spirit is at work in our lives He speaks to us. But does that mean that every thought that runs through our heads is from God? Sometimes God asks us to do some pretty unusual things and we are to obey, but other times we may be hearing the voice of God’s enemy who wants to lead us away from God’s path. How do you know when a prompting...
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"Call to me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) As a Breakthrough Prayer team for our children's high school, we were privileged to have a little room inside the school where we could meet for prayer. We actually laid hands on our door and prayed, "God please bring the most...
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It’s her eyes and innocent face that first grab your heart. At least they grabbed mine. Annika, a delicate young girl, has been unwittingly handed into virtual slavery by her homeless father. She faces a bleak future of sweatshop labor and sex-for-sale . She seems precious, blameless, so undeserving of this hell, but life is cheap for an...
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Easter is not a day - it is a season. This year begin your Easter preparation with Holy Week because without the crucifixion, there would have been no resurrection. Had Christ not hung on the cross, taken on our sins, and then spent three days defeating Satan’s power, His rising again would not have been so meaningful. Starting on Sunday,...
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The other day, I watched one of favorite old movies, the original 1944 version of The Canterville Ghost. It takes place in England during World War II and stars Charles Laughton, Robert Young, and a very young Margaret O’Brien. Margaret was so endearing and spoke so beautifully as a child. In the film, the phrase “noblesse oblige” arises...
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I’ve been a Christian for a long time. The weirdest thing to me about being a Christian is how often I forget the miracle of God’s love. I forget the power of it. I forget how wonderful it is, that a holy God should pursue me. It stops being such a big deal. It stops feeling so amazing. I fall out of love with Him a bit. For a long time...
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Think of it as Survivor: Earth As reality TV host Jeff Probst might say (cue theme music; roll panoramic video), “This … is the planet Earth - a spectacular paradise that can become a perilous jungle. Two people – a man and a woman – are about to begin the adventure of the ages.” “Their progeny will encompass vastly different...
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