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The Most Important Thing
Greetings, Friends! It’s a beautiful but busy season. Our schedule and our mind is often full. We can get distracted during the holiday season and neglect the most important thing, when perhaps we need it the most. Sometimes it’s hard to sit still to pray, let alone even to think of what to pray. But…
Read MoreA Labor Day Prayer
It’s another Labor Day weekend to celebrate the American worker. Labor Day also signals the end of summer with, ironically, an extra day off from our labor. But let’s not take a day off from prayer, even though it can sometimes feel laborious and tedious. Perhaps you’ve felt this way as I have at times.…
Read MoreWhat Are You Wearing?
We women often ask each other, “What are you wearing?” We spend so much time, money, and effort on what we wear. What we wear often makes us feel good about ourselves. But what does that really accomplish? Our little girls sing along with Sophia the First that they have the shoes and they have…
Read MoreThe Lord’s Prayer for America
One day, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). He then taught them what we call “The Lord’s Prayer.” Yet people today still wonder how to pray, even though the Lord’s Prayer has been recited for centuries. Could we have missed something? Did Jesus really mean for us to recite this…
Read MorePeace on Earth is Not Cancelled
A wall hanging at Hobby Lobby gripped my attention last week. The round, six-inch plaque simply said, “Peace on earth.” A cynical part of me scoffed, yeah right. What peace? Is peace on earth even possible? We see anything but peace today – political unrest, rebellion against the things of God, religious liberty threatened, heightened…
Read MorePrayerdemic Prayers – His Commandments Are Not Cancelled
Have you ever been in an airplane on a cloudy day? You can’t see a thing as the plane soars through dense clouds. It’s as though the clouds cancel the sun. But once you rise above them, there it is – the sun in all its brilliance. We are living in a time when some…
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