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He Still Reaches Out to Touch Us with Healing

He Still Reaches Out to Touch Us with Healing

Lent starts February 14, and so does the RESCUED Blessed is She Lent devotional. This year, you’ll be receiving an excerpt from the Lent devotional every day in your inbox (in...
February 10, 2024
Don’t Let Your Suffering Go To Waste

Don’t Let Your Suffering Go To Waste

When Jesus began his ministry he was about thirty years of age. // Luke 3:23 I’ll be honest, chemotherapy terrified me. I knew I needed to prepare for it. So,...
January 05, 2024
The Author of Beauty Made Me

The Author of Beauty Made Me

For from the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author, by analogy, is seen. // Wisdom 13:5 During chemotherapy, my long, thick hair decided to take an extended...
November 16, 2023
Be the Sign For Your Generation

Be the Sign For Your Generation

“This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it.” // Luke 11:29 I had to have major surgery and would need some...
October 15, 2023
Trusting this God of Fire, Fire, Fire

Trusting this God of Fire, Fire, Fire

His throne was flames of fire, with wheels of burning fire. A surging stream of fire flowed out from where he sat. // Daniel 7:9-10 In 1990, my sister and I went...
September 28, 2023
7 Things To Do While Waiting For the Biopsy Results

7 Things To Do While Waiting For the Biopsy Results

 “Take courage.” // Matthew 14:27 1: Vow before God and your women’s prayer group that you will not allow fear to rob you of one more precious moment of your...
August 07, 2023
Help Us to Hear The Cry of the Poor

Help Us to Hear The Cry of the Poor

Those who seek the Lord want for no good thing. // Psalm 34:11 Years ago, I wrote an article about the book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy....
July 04, 2023
A Rest That Surpasses All Understanding

A Rest That Surpasses All Understanding

The LORD set his heart on you. // Deuteronomy 7:7  My spring was unusually full, traveling nearly every weekend, January through April, to speak and lead retreats. And these were...
June 15, 2023
Be in One Place Together

Be in One Place Together

The Spirit enabled them to proclaim. // Acts 2:4 My prayer group meets every two weeks. Just seven of us, we meet faithfully over video conference to discuss our prayer...
May 27, 2023
Set Your Seal Upon Me

Set Your Seal Upon Me

“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” // John 6:28 My sister was trying to make a difficult decision. She went back and forth, weighing the consequences...
April 23, 2023
Multiply

Multiply

“I will demand an accounting for human life.” // Genesis 9:5 A few years ago, my older brother, now in his sixties, married a lovely woman, a widow somewhat younger,...
February 15, 2023
Lighting Up the Nation that Lives in Your House

Lighting Up the Nation that Lives in Your House

I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. // Isaiah 49:6 My father, 94, and mother, 89, make...
January 15, 2023