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Fear… it has gripped my heart at times, making me feel helpless and hopeless. I remember the day that my husband of 21 years told me he was leaving me. I remember the knot in my stomach, the shallow breathing that was all I could do, as though my lungs had collapsed under the weight…
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I spent most of this month in southern Africa, one of my favorite places in the world. We spent time in Zambia and South Africa, but I really want to focus on the first week of our trip, the part in rural Zambia. One thing that is hard to wrap your head around until you…
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Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his…
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A true unsung hero of the Biblical narrative is Joseph of Nazareth. As Jesus’ adoptive father, think about the effect this man had on the salvation story! Yet he is often, in our nativity scenes, indistinguishable from the shepherds. Having raised three children who aren’t biologically mine, I understand the depth of love and care…
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I am a self-proclaimed adventurer. As an Enneagram 7, I thrive on novelty and experiences. Boredom is actually frightening and a little painful. Unsurprisingly, then, I love stories of people who live extraordinary lives for God: Esther, who became queen; Sampson, who saved Israel; David, the shepherd king; and Paul, spending his life fighting opposition…
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Family is a strong emotional word. That’s true whether the emotions you experience when you hear it are positive or negative. That’s because we all spent our formative years in one, and either it was great or it was bad. Shakespeare’s line, “He is not worthy of the honeycomb who shuns the hive because the…
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If you’ve read part 1 of this series, you know that earthquakes aren’t commonly mentioned in the Bible. If you haven’t, I’ll put the link to that here. We are looking at a weekend bookended by earthquakes, the weekend that Christ was crucified. The first was when He conquered Sin, and the Earth shook at…
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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…
