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Bible Teachings

What’s the Good Word?

Psalm 119: 98-100 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me. I have more understanding that all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts. I love those promises. As I read Psalm 119 yesterday, I [...]

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Life Lessons from Bounce Dryer Sheets

About five years ago I found myself on a Scottish summer’s day, inside a grocery store, and in tears over dryer sheets. You heard me right. Dryer sheets. I think I need to back up a bit. I had just moved to Edinburgh a few weeks before and getting started in a new country brought [...]

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When It’s Time to Get Real

When’s the last time you just laid all the cards out on the table and got real with God? Can you remember the last time you were just as honest as you could possibly be with Jesus and with yourself? Maybe you were at rock bottom, literally laying on the floor, and you found yourself [...]

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Do you got a boat?

This is an excerpt of an email reply I felt prompted to write a few weeks ago. I thought I might just drop it into a post, because for some reason I thought it might also be a word for a few of you, friends. It is amazing how a word that is in season [...]

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What Won’t Get Done on Facebook

In case you’re wondering, the Bear had a delightful birthday yesterday! Thanks for all the well-wishes! I hope to have some pictures from the fabulous event here for you, soon! Early one morning a few weeks ago, a little interaction went on inside my brain that has had me thinking for a while. The Bear [...]

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I Struggle with My Privileges.

Sometimes there is so much discontentment in me I find it disgusting. And I feel like what I let you see, anyone see who sees my life, is the exterior where I pretend to be content and thankful and happy. But beneath the surface, I am less than who I want to be in Jesus. [...]

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Do You Know How to Dig a Well?

I’ve been mulling over a story from Genesis 26 lately. Abraham just died, Esau sold his birthright, and because of famine, Isaac went to hang out with the Philistines in Gerar, since the Lord told him not to go to Egypt. After being tricksy with Abimelech about Rebekah being his wife, Abimelech tells everybody to [...]

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There’s No News Like the Good News and No Word like The Word

It has been really exciting to share the good news about what’s happening in our lives at the moment. (If you missed all this…where ya been?) But I sometimes find at the moments when life feels the most like a whoosh…..swoosh…roller coaster, where everything is tilting around a curve while you’re looking for a new [...]

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Staying the Course or Fweaking Out

At the beginning of this year, Hero Hubs and I looked our financial situation square in the face, and had no idea how we were going to make it. We were still figuring out the cost of living in South Africa and the amount of income committed to us by our monthly partners did not [...]

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Jesus, My Rubbish Collector

I was following along with a conversation on a friend’s website about entitlement the other day. And I began to recognise something that has been changing in me without me being fuly cognizant of it: I’m becoming aware that there is more (and more) “rubbish” in my heart, and I need help taking out the [...]