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  • Crumbling Air Castles…How I Started Dating Divorcees

    Not long ago it had never occurred to me to date a guy who had been married before.  Honestly, I had just never given it a thought.  Of course, I would end up marrying a wonderful Christian guy who had waited his whole life just for me!  Why in the world would I ever think God might have something different for me?  I had dreams of my future marriage built up in beautiful gilded air castles.

    But that all changed several years ago, when I met Rick.  We met through mutual friends and after several months of getting to know each other in group settings, it became clear that we were attracted to one another.  It seemed like everything was headed in the right direction.  Then it all changed…

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  • How to Live in True Community as the Body of Christ {Part 2}

    This is part 2 of the article “How to Live in True Community as the Body of Christ.” Be sure to read part 1 here.

    As God is teaching me to be more attentive to the rest of the body, I would like to share with you some simple steps we can take.

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  • How to Live in True Community as the Body of Christ {Part 1}

    I confess. I am living as an island.

    Many of us do it. We go to church with plastic smiles and act like everything is ok.  We don’t want to admit that our lives are messy or overwhelming or sinful, so we cut ourselves off and don’t allow anyone to connect with us.  What’s more, we don’t make much of an attempt to connect with others either.

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  • Lift Your Eyes

    Do you ever feel hopeless and defeated?  Like you’re in the middle of a battle, blindly throwing punches into the darkness at some unknown enemy?  If you are a child of the King, you are in a fight…in a war, in fact.  Because of your relationship with God, you have a fierce opponent who is throwing all he’s got at you, wearing you down.  Satan wants your spirit to be stone-cold dead.

    Sisters in Christ, don’t let that happen!  As much as we would really prefer to be pampered princesses in a crystal palace, God is calling His daughters to be warriors.

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  • A Walk to Star Hill :: Cultivating a Relationship with God

    I miss Star Hill.

    Back in college, a dear friend would often ask me to go on evening walks. Usually I would beg off, already settled in for the night … or just too lazy to bother. Every once in a while I would go with her. We lived in a tiny college town in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, KY, so it didn’t take long to walk past campus to the quiet neighborhoods. As dusk set in, we would wander past sleepy homes and head to the top of a small rise where the town suddenly came to an end. Here, on a clear night in a dark, empty field, we would stretch out and explore the night sky. Our meager knowledge of constellations would soon give way to talks about life, family, and friends. And then we would just lie there in the cool grass and breathe in the beauty of the galaxies.

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