What Distinguishes the People of God?
Exodus 33 is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. At the bottom of the page in the Bible I read for my daily devotions I noted, “It is the Presence of God—the ‘with-ness’ of God—that distinguishes the people…
Getting Used to It
Throughout my life those milestone birthdays never really bothered me. I took 30, 40, even 50 in stride. In fact, I found my 50s to be the best decade I’d ever had. But when my husband, who is a few…
Divine Discomfort
If you’ve ever been in athletics or fitness you know that there are different kinds of pain: the kind you push through and the kind that means STOP! If we give into the first kind, we will not progress very…
Where Joy and Sorrow Meet
A new development is going in near us. As I walked past what until quite recently had been a wooded area, I was saddened at the loss of trees, but the pile of bulldozed broken and bruised trees was giving…
The Miracle of Salvation
When I was a teenager and young adult it seemed like the youth groups I was in were very keen on getting us to share our testimonies and to listen to the testimonies of others. Some people had very dramatic…
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