Category Archives: Bible Study

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How a Glass of Water Can Cool Down a Heated Argument

Is every conversation you have with your family members perfectly calm, controlled and pleasant? Or does a steady temper rise from warm to heated to boiling tend to be a typical pattern in your interactions?

"Beat the Heat" | Enid Martindale (StuffNThings). http://www.flickr.com

Photo credit: “Beat the Heat” | Enid Martindale (StuffNThings). http://www.flickr.com

Married women: Ever had one of those conversations with your husband where you get heated, he gets heated and then … bang! It turns into a full-blown fight?

Moms: Ever had one of those conversations with your teenager where you start yelling, she or he gets mad and then … explosion! You’re both pulling your hair out and not one closer to a resolution?

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Remember, He is With You – Mandisa [Video]

In Missing Pieces, I write about the importance of recognizing that “God is with you” in both your darkest and most joyous times. As we latch on to this truth, the missing pieces in our blanket of faith become places where we experience the absolute fullness and goodness God.

Listen to these beautiful words performed by my girlfriend and sister-in-Christ, Mandisa. I met and worked with Mandisa before her debut on American Idol. I love her music, but more importantly, I dearly love her heart for the Lord. Mandisa’s testimony rings true through this song! Always, always, always remember He Is With You.

Check out Mandisa’s music! This girl can sing.

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How to Lighten Your Load by Trading Places

I unloaded my frustrations to my friend Karen while talking on the phone the other day. Sometimes blindness makes me so tired that it just scrapes against the bottom of my soul, and it was one of those days.

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I bet you know what I’m talking about; we’ve all had “one of those days.” You know, when you’re so overwhelmed that you can’t even put your jumbled feelings into words?

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Layers of Pain Require Levels of Healing

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I’ve been on the phone a lot lately with a friend who is going through the messy aftermath of a hurtful break up.

The man she thought she was going to marry wasn’t close to the man he turned out to be.

Not only is she dealing with the grief of a lost relationship of a future husband, but also the loss of the man she thought she loved, a man she now has to accept as a fraud. Isn’t that hard? Have you been there?

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God Gives What He Expects

When I was a little girl, my Dad would give me and my brothers some money to buy Christmas presents for my mom and him. It was never much but just enough to find something we could wrap and present to them.

I remember the year I picked out two coffee mugs for them. It was probably 1972, and my Mom had a Mug Tree on our gold counter top in the kitchen with the orange beads hanging as curtains above the sink! The mugs weren’t expensive; they weren’t the height of mug fashion either! But, they weren’t tacky, and they were purchased with thoughtfulness, and I used everything my Dad gave me to buy them for him and my mom.