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May 6, 2012

THE FROSTING PARTY

Change is frightening. Good stuff happening still means letting go of something. I had a dream about a party in which the frosting and eating of frosting was the end all… I was afraid of getting caught up in the fluff of life…God has strange ways of gettin my attention sometimes… feel free to chuckle… Continue reading

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March 26, 2012

Are You Sure About This?

Everything changes all the time. So, why, when God sends along a new BIG change, the first thing we do is panic? Continue reading

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March 16, 2012

Update from Jo

If in your busy life you have noticed I’ve not communicated lately, here is the reason. Continue reading

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January 30, 2012

Crawl Over the Rubble

Who says Sunday School Lessons are not important? The lesson on Nehemiah rebuilding the walls got me to thinking about the rubble in my life, and the courage it takes for us to climb over the feelings and left over hurts, quit keeping score and let God take care of it all. Then we can… Continue reading

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December 5, 2011

Staying Out of Trouble

Why do some people seem to live without getting into all the scraps and brushes with trouble adn terrrible consequesces of life’s decisions? I believe we can ask God to give us wisdom to see what the end result of our actions will be… while we are in the process of making the decision. Maybe… Continue reading

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November 29, 2011

Don’t Touch My Christmas

This is my half-humorous, mostly serious declaration of why Christmas is not just for kids. It’s not, you know. Continue reading

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November 27, 2011

Forever and Always In God’s Presence

In this devotion from my second novel, The Twins of Zae, I record my fascination with our concepts of being in the presence of God, yet having the presence of God within us. Continue reading

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September 26, 2011

Satan’s Ammunition

“Satan can only use what we try to hide.” A lady named Sondra Redmon said that to me lately. I liked it. Continue reading

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September 6, 2011

Prelude to A Ministry

A new school year.The beginning of the kids and teens of the chuch will begin this week. My prayer is for us to be able to help our kids how to make God part of their entire life, not just one compartment. Continue reading

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August 23, 2011

A Stress Dream

As the disciples reacted in fear in Matthew 17:5-8 when Christ’s majesty was confirmed by God. We call it Christ’s tranfiguration. Things were changing in front of their eyes, and they didn’t know what to do except fall back to regroup. They felt overwhelmed. Enough said? It’s almost trite in this culture to talk about… Continue reading

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