Redemptive Ramblings
Seeing the faithfulness of God even in the hard things of life.
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Part 1 – Torn Curtains and Sin’s Defeat Before that moment, there were sacrifices and separation; after that moment, there was atonement and communion. No wonder the Earth shook! Angela Lewis Of the over 600 stories in the Bible, no more than a dozen earthquakes are recorded. Actually, there are more predictions and prophecies of…
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Twenty-six years ago, I had a very bad Good Friday. I was 16 weeks pregnant and so excited to be a mom. On that Friday morning in 2000, I woke up and realized I had started bleeding. After a call to the doctor, I headed out for the Emergency Room. On the drive there, I…
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Nearly 20 years ago, I preached for the first time. The day before I was supposed to preach, I still had only gotten a general topic from God: Courage. At the same time, we were in the middle of our second adoption and had felt called to change our paperwork to say we wanted to…
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Ten years ago, my husband of twenty-one years, nineteen of which were spent in ministry together, said something that changed my life. We were on an anniversary trip when he looked at me and said, “I’m done with all of this.” I was so confused. All of what? “This. All of it. I don’t want…
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Young women will dance and be happy, young men and old men will join in. I’ll convert their weeping into laughter, lavishing comfort, invading their grief with joy. Jeremiah 31:13(MSG) I will always remember the day my husband told me he was leaving as the worst day of my life. I can’t even begin to…
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One of the most famous shipwrecks in history, the Titanic, had an obvious navigational problem when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. But the fascinating series of events that led there are less well-known. The navigator, who was supposed to be the First Officer on the ship, was removed from the roster…
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Why Wrestling with God is a Good Thing Recently, I shared my story with the ladies in a trauma recovery class that I teach. As I described my responses to miscarriage, infertility, and divorce, one of the ladies made a statement that made me think. “You’ve really wrestled with God.” She said it like it…
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