Christmas, it’s just around the corner! Everything in town is getting festive and Christmas parties are on the calendar. I love all the visiting and the wrapping of gifts (seriously, send me your packages and I will wrap them!). My husband and I have several Christmas movies we watch each year and we’re slowly making our way through the list! It seems easy to turn eyes toward Bethlehem and that stable where Christ was born when songs like O Come Emmanuel play over the radio. Mid November through that first week of the new year, the birth of Christ is…
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“I don’t know how to walk through this, Lord.” How many times has my heart whispered these words in prayer? Too many to count. Has your own heart ever whispered these words? If you answered yes, I don’t think we are alone in this experience. Sooner or later, situations arise where we find ourselves out of our depth. It doesn’t matter how much experience we have or which seasons we’ve weathered. The question can come out of many circumstances- times of uncertainty, a season of stillness, or even a season of joy. Walking through the day-in/day-out routines of our lives,…
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“And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered…