Dear Daddy, Happy Birthday! Today was the day you made your appearance in this world ninety years ago. Isn’t it interesting that in our English language, “birth” rhymes with “earth?” While May 14th means a lot to us as we think about you today, your birthdays as recorded by time in this earthbound realm of …
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The Resurrection Means We Have Eternal Life
RESURRECTION! R is for redemption. E is for eternal life. In a few days, it will have been three months since my Daddy took his last breath in this world. As you can imagine, the word “death” has taken on a whole new meaning for my immediate family. While we’ve experienced the death of other …
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Two Paths
Have you ever thought about how many times the Bible uses words like way, path, or steps to describe our lives? From the moment of our birth, we are on a journey. We seem to understand innately, whether or not we believe in God, or the Bible, or sin, or the cross, that life consists …
Encouraging Promises When A Loved One Is Dying
Psalm 85:7 – Show us Your mercy, Lord, and grant us Your salvation. God brought this verse to my husband’s mind as my family daily gathered around my father’s hospital bed. We knew he would never return home with my mother, and that his day of promotion to heaven was drawing ever nearer. Such mixed …
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Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts: The Gift of Eternal Life {Day 1}
My husband has a favorite saying. He likes to ask, “How do you know you’re in love?” He gets a variety of answers, but his go-to answer is, “If you truly love someone, you give,” according to how God loves us: For God so loved the world, that He gave… (John 3:16) The love of …
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The Way Of The Word 