Category: Bible Reading
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Keeping the Joy
My son and his wife and daughter from Florida are here this week, and we’re filling our days with all the touches of love that we can – from siblings, aunties and uncles, great-grandparents, and more. We’ve played Frisbee on the beach at Florence, popped in to see old friends from church, visited family in Portland, and sat…
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After Easter – How to Hang On to the Positive
Scrolling through Facebook Sunday afternoon, I ran into a gazillion happy faces of Easter celebrants with their friends and families. Then there are the memes, those artsy pictures with slogans, sayings or verses printed on them, all over social media. I wondered with the elevated emotions during the holiday weekend, how do we hang on to all this positive energy?…
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Two Things to Consider Before Marriage
Interested in being married? Here are a couple things to think about. In an earlier post I mentioned that I often pray with my hands open. This is to show I’m ready to receive from God, and also willing for him to take something away. To me it’s a perfect posture of faith, like I’m demonstrating the prayer, “your will be done…
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Marriage Tip #3 – How to Get What You Want
What do we really want from marriage? Isn’t it more than those first thoughts that pop into our heads like sexual fulfillment, companionship, life purpose, a stable home, etc.? I Need Love. “What a person desires is unfailing love” (Proverbs 19:22 NIV). Though other translations interpret this verse differently, it’s still true that what we need and…
