Five Minute Friday: Long

Five Minute Friday

This is my first attempt at 5 Minute Friday: Long means something different to each person. When we are young: –long is waiting until our parents are done talking –long is driving a few miles (Will we ever get there?) –long is waiting for supper when you’re hungry, especially when Mom tells you no snacks…

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Chocolate Soldiers or Soldiers of the Cross?

This week Christians are celebrating the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These events that happened thousands of years ago still have an incredible impact on our world. Jesus died so that every person who repents of his or her sin and asks for salvation is able to receive it. Jesus conquered the power…

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Pursuing Holiness, One choice at a time

This morning I read Ephesians 4:14-24. Here are a few thoughts that “jumped out” at me as I read: I am not to be like a child who is easily tricked and led astray (vs. 14) I am to allow God’s truth to ground me (like an anchor) and help me mature in my faith…

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Rainbows and Remembrance Day

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the Remembrance Day service at Ardmore School. I was especially touched by two events in the service. The first was a student who sang lyrics to a Remembrance Day poem her mother wrote more than twenty years ago. The second was the slideshow which depicted soldiers in the…

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