What Do I Do With My Fear?

It seems in nearly every circle of people I am a part of, there is a palpable anxiousness right now. We are watching things unfold that are frightening. We don’t know who to believe. We are asking ourselves lots of questions…maybe not even uttering them aloud because somehow that seems to make them more viable.…

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What You Have Seen in Me…

Someone asked me the other day, what scripture had been on my heart that week. Well, I’ve been thinking about what I’m thinking. How I’m thinking. How I’m modeling how to think to our kids. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,…

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Beating First World Syndrome

Do your kids ever manifest symptoms of First World Syndrome? Recent generations of young people have been groomed to have a certain sense of entitlement about them. That something is owed them. That they deserve more. An expectation of accolades, convenience, and ease. It is grievous and unkind to cultivate this. Suspect there are some…

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The Calm of Christmas

Diane Heeney This is a busy, busy time of year. It seems we can become so inundated with “things to do, places to go, and people to see” that our spirits become disheveled and our nerves frayed. Make time in the coming weeks for the calm of Christmas. Turn off Bing Crosby and the Grinch…

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Loving God’s Way

Dianne Heeney If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the lord shall reward thee (Prov. 25:21-22). Unselfishly, unreservedly, unconditionally . . . this is how God loves. A Jewish lawyer once…

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God’s Quiver Full

Diane Heeney As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. Psalm 127:4, 5a Miscarriages and stillbirths are common occurrences in this world of ours. After you have “entered the arena,” you soon discover just how many…

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