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When You Want to Know What To Do

25 March by Hariette Petersen
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Last week I was really sick with a stomach virus.  I couldn’t seem to bounce back and felt despondent.  However I was far more troubled about some of my friends who are struggling.  One friend has a two year-old grandson just diagnosed and undergoing treatment for leukemia.  Another has a new-born daughter with spina-bifida.  Another learned of his mother’s sudden death.  My granddaughter’s father-in-law [...]

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Running Interference

22 March by Hariette Petersen
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In football, a receiver catches the quarterback’s pass, secures the ball, then runs for the goal line.  His teammates legally block defensive tacklers to protect and make way for their ball carrier.  The opposing team does all it can to catch that receiver and keep him from meeting his objective.  Sometimes a confident ball carrier is blindsided and taken [...]

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Seeing God’s Glory In the Valley

15 January by Emily Riley
Seeing God in the Valley Devotional

“let me find Thy light in my darkness, Thy life in my death, Thy joy in my sorrow, Thy grace in my sin, Thy riches in my poverty, Thy glory in my valley.”  A Puritan prayer Every human being experiences valleys at one time or another during his or her life.  Even though as Christians [...]

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God Will Keep You from Stumbling

11 October by John Starke
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“To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy.” Jude 24 Jude’s epistle calls his readers to persevere in belief. His great effort is contending against false teachers who had crept in and were defiling “the faith that was once [...]

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