By Lyneta Smith Planting new seeds is exciting, and harvesting the bounty is gratifying. But what about all the in-between work of weeding, watering, fertilizing, and pruning? Gardening can be hard, thankless work with no guarantee of yielding a good return on our labor investment. The same could be said for kingdom work, whether we’re […]
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By Maureen Miller I scan my yard. Drat! Too many weeds! Bending, I take hold and yank. But rather than pulling out a single strand of green, the tug reveals more than I could see. The plant didn’t break away from its roots. Instead, the intricate underground system comes up with the weed. I pull
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Article by: Sarah Koontz, Founder of Living by Design Ministries Recently, I resolved to curb my nasty habit of offering unsolicited advice. Unfortunately, I’ve got decades of experience giving unwanted advice, so it wasn’t easy to wean myself off. If you have a problem, I have a solution. It’s how my brain works. I know
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Why did God rest on the seventh day? I mean, really?!? He’s God—the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth—surely He doesn’t need to rest? Yet, Genesis 2:2 tells us, “By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.”
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Article by: Sarah Koontz, Founder of Living by Design Ministries For many years, I mistakenly believed grace is a New Testament—or New Covenant—concept. In my mind, it was almost as if Jesus’ death and resurrection unleashed God’s grace on mankind for the very first time. How very wrong I was! The concept of grace—unmerited favor—is
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Article by: Sarah Koontz Is there a person in your life whom you esteem as a scholar in God’s School? Someone who seems to have unique access to God, supreme wisdom in every circumstance, and an uncanny ability to weave God’s truth into each conversation? I know several of these scholars, and their depth of
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In this week’s blog, we will dig deep into John’s Epistles. I found this particular section of Scripture to be edifying and convicting. I am confident that you will be blessed and encouraged by the many transformative truths we can learn from John’s letters to the early church. If you have never read John’s epistles,
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By Leslie Jones Shuffling through my “people to pray for” notecards one morning, I sensed God’s holy invitation to add the name of a woman who’d deeply wounded me. “How can I pray for her,” I questioned, “when it’s impossible to forgive what she did to my family?” Offering forgiveness felt unreasonable. I’d harbored hatred
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By Dana Kinion “I keep six honest serving men,They taught me all I knew.Their names were What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.” – I Keep Six Honest Serving Men, Rudyard Kipling This is the first part of a poem by Rudyard Kipling. I learned it from my high school writing teacher
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By Angela Meer Like most women, I could barely squeak in the time for a shower, let alone a consistent self-care routine. Rushing through the daily grind, I was far from creating sustaining habits that would infuse my body and mind with health and hope. In the madness of my go-go-go without any rest-rest-rest lifestyle,
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