Years ago my teenage daughter proudly announced “Mom, did you know the Lord’s Prayer is in the Bible?” I gave her a very puzzled look and wondered why this was suddenly a revelation. She had grown up in the church, gone to Sunday School since she was a baby, attended…
Read more“You don’t give yourself enough credit.” She said it quietly, without much emphasis, simply stating what she considered a fact. Before I could respond she continued, “I haven’t tasted anything you cooked that wasn’t good.” My friend visited me for the first time a few summers ago. It was a…
Read moreMy friend, Cathy, showed up one day sporting an eye patch. She’s a stellar athlete who has triumphed over hard-hitting competition, but thanks to a tiny grain of sand that scratched her cornea, she was kept on the sidelines, out of the action. A microscopic irritant grated against the delicate…
Read moreThis past weekend, I spoke at a women’s conference about “Facing Your Lions”. Lions, as you know, is likened in the Bible to that of the enemy, because the enemy seeks its prey like a lion. Lions are quick to pounce on their prey, and they have one motive for doing…
Read more“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and…
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