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Friday Focus
- A Blooming Rose
- A Lasting Mark
- A Message to Be Believed Pt8
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 10
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 4
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 5
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 6
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 7
- A Message to Be Believed, Part 9
- A Message to Be Believed: Part 1
- A Message to Be Believed: Part 2
- A Message to Be Believed: Part 3
- A Message Worth Believing
- A Parting Gift
- Accepting the Words
- All-sufficient merit
- An Upright Versus A Wicked Population
- Are you still grateful?
- Avoid Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
- Be an Overcomer
- Be Diligent in Seeking Good
- Beware of Crooked Speech
- Binge Remorse
- Binge Remorse
- Bless
- Bound by Steadfast Love and Faithfulness
- Choose Today
- Christmas Fog
- Christmas Fog
- Comfort in the Darkness: 1 – Glorified
- Comfort in the Darkness: 10 – Do You Love Me?
- Comfort in the Darkness: 11 – Unacceptable
- Comfort in the Darkness: 12- Because He Lives
- Comfort in the Darkness: 13- Shown to the Ones Who Love
- Comfort in the Darkness: 2 – As I have, so you must
- Comfort in the Darkness: 3 – Will you really?
- Comfort in the Darkness: 4 – Trouble vs. Trust
- Comfort in the Darkness: 5 – A Place for You
- Comfort in the Darkness: 6 – The Way
- Comfort in the Darkness: 7 – What’s Enough for You?
- Comfort in the Darkness: 8 – The Evidence
- Comfort in the Darkness: 9 – Greater Things
- Comfort in the Darkness: Conclusion
- Commit Your Plans to God
- Conclusion: Remember, Lest We Forget
- Confident Walking
- Consequences of Refusing God’s Wisdom
- Darkness before the light
- Desire of nations
- Doing what’s possible
- Fever or Fervor?
- Finding Peace with Your Enemies
- Focus Forward
- Focus Forward
- Focus in the Frailty
- Focus in the Frailty
- Focus on His Names
- Folly: The Opposite of Wisdom
- Forgetfulness and the Need to Forget
- Friday Focus
- Friday Focus Collections
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 1
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 10
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 11
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 12
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 13
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 14
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 15
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 16
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 17
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 18
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 19
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 2
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 20
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 21
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 22
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 23
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 24
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 25
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 26
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 27
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 28
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 29
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 3
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 30
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 31
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 32
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 33
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 34
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 35
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 36
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 37
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 38
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 39
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 4
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 40
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 41
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 42
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 43
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 44
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 45
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 46
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 47
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 48
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 49
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 5
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 50
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 6
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 7
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 8
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 9
- Gems from Genesis: Conclusion
- Gems from Genesis: Introduction
- God Remembers His Enemies
- God Remembers His People, Part 1
- God Remembers His People, Part 2
- God Remembers Past Events
- God Remembers People, as Should We
- God Remembers Those Who Fear Him
- God Remembers Us in Our Weakness
- God Remembers Us with Mercy
- God Remembers What He Has Said
- Gravestones and Social Security
- Guard Your Heart
- Guard Your Tongue
- Harmonious Living
- Have You Forgotten God?
- He Goes, We Stay
- He Prayed for Me
- Heaping coals
- Hold Marriage Dear
- Honor and Devotion
- I Am Forgotten
- Imprinting God’s Word on Your Heart and Mind
- In Finding Wisdom, We Find Christ
- Is Jesus God?
- Jesus, Another Name for Wisdom
- Learning from the Past Wrap-Up
- Learning from the Past: Eight
- Learning from the Past: Eighteen
- Learning from the Past: Eleven
- Learning from the Past: Fifteen
- Learning from the Past: Fifty
- Learning from the Past: Fifty-One
- Learning from the Past: Five
- Learning from the Past: Forty
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Eight
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Five
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Four
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Nine
- Learning from the Past: Forty-One
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Seven
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Six
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Three
- Learning from the Past: Forty-Two
- Learning from the Past: Four
- Learning from the Past: Fourteen
- Learning from the Past: Introduction to Lessons from the Old Testament
- Learning from the Past: Nine
- Learning from the Past: Nineteen
- Learning from the Past: One
- Learning from the Past: Seven
- Learning from the Past: Seventeen
- Learning from the Past: Six
- Learning from the Past: Sixteen
- Learning from the Past: Ten
- Learning from the Past: Thirteen
- Learning from the Past: Thirty
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Eight
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Five
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Four
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Nine
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-One
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Seven
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Six
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Three
- Learning from the Past: Thirty-Two
- Learning from the Past: Three
- Learning from the Past: Twelve
- Learning from the Past: Twenty
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Eight
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Five
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Four
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Nine
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-One
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Seven
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Six
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Three
- Learning from the Past: Twenty-Two
- Learning from the Past: Two
- Lessons from Mountainside 13
- Lessons from the Ant
- Lessons from the Mountainside 11
- Lessons from the Mountainside 14
- Lessons from the Mountainside 15
- Lessons from the Mountainside 16
- Lessons from the Mountainside 17
- Lessons from the Mountainside 18
- Lessons from the Mountainside 19
- Lessons from the Mountainside 21
- Lessons from the Mountainside 22
- Lessons from the Mountainside 23
- Lessons from the Mountainside 24
- Lessons from the Mountainside 25
- Lessons from the Mountainside 26
- Lessons from the Mountainside 27
- Lessons from the Mountainside 28
- Lessons from the Mountainside 29
- Lessons from the Mountainside 30
- Lessons from the Mountainside 31
- Lessons from the Mountainside 32
- Lessons from the Mountainside Review Part 2
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 1
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 10
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 12
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 2
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 20
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 3
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 4
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 5
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 6
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 7
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 8
- Lessons from the Mountainside: 9
- Lessons from the Mountainside: Review Part 1
- Lessons from the Mountainside: Review Part 3
- Letters to Help Us Remember
- Look at Your Life and Remember
- Loss of Focus
- Making It Clear: 1 – A Time Is Coming
- Making It Clear: 2 – Three Areas of Conviction
- Making It Clear: 3 – The Guide to Truth
- Making it Clear: 4 – Hush, and I’ll Tell You
- Making It Clear: 5 – The Day Prayer Changed
- Making It Clear: 6 – Understanding and Peace
- Making It Clear: Conclusion
- Man Forgets Past Events
- Man Needs Visual Reminders
- Man’s Way Has a Pre-Determined End
- Markers for Remembering
- Moses Reminds the People to Remember God
- Names of Places Remembered
- No Answers
- O Death, Where is Your Victory?
- Our Shield of Righteousness
- Patience, Really?
- Perspective
- Praying for Those You Remember
- Rejoice and Mourn
- Remember God’s Name
- Remember God’s Word for a Full Life and Well-Being
- Remember the Feasts
- Remember the Sabbath
- Remember You Were Slaves
- Remember Your Sin and God’s Grace
- Remember, Lest We Forget: Introduction
- Remember—He’s Told Us Already
- Remembering In the Good Days and the Bad
- Reminders for God
- Right vs. Evil
- Saying No to Sin
- Sincere Love
- Six Things the Lord Hates
- Taking Time to Pray
- TGIF
- That Name
- The Antidote to an Anxious Heart
- The Benefits of Listening and Repenting
- The Big Payback
- The Bitter Consequences of Sin
- The Blessings of the Righteous
- The Do Nots of the Wise
- The Final Request
- The God Who Forgets
- The Good Shepherd: 1 – Hearing His Voice
- The Good Shepherd: 2 – Shepherds
- The Good Shepherd: 3 – Called by Name
- The Good Shepherd: 4 – The Gated Community
- The Good Shepherd: 5 – Abandoned
- The Good Shepherd: 6 – One Flock
- The Good Shepherd: 7 – The Sole Authority
- The Good Shepherd: Conclusion
- The Light of Godly Teaching
- The Partner of Wisdom
- The Power of a Soft Response
- The Prophets Remember God
- The Psalms Call Us to Remember God
- The Refuge I Build for My Children
- The Role of the Ears and Tongue in Living Out Righteousness
- The Soul Capturer
- The Time Has Come
- The Transformed Life
- The Unshakable Root of Righteousness
- The Way of Temptation
- The Way of Wisdom
- The World Must Learn
- Traits of the One Who Loves God
- Unobtrusive
- Vine Life: 1 – The Vine
- Vine Life: 2 – The Proof’s in the Fruit
- Vine Life: 3 – Complete Joy
- Vine Life: 4 – Friends not Servants
- Vine Life: 5 – Chosen for a Purpose
- Vine Life: 6 – Keep in Mind
- Vine Life: 7 – No Excuse
- Vine Life: 8 – The Counselor
- Vine Life: Conclusion
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 1
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 10
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 11
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 12
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 13
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 14
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 15
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 16
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 17
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 18
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 19
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 2
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 20
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 21
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 22
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 23
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 24
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 25
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 26
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 3
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 4
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 5
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 6
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 7
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 8
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 9
- Walking in Wisdom: Introduction
- We Forget God’s Word
- We Have a History of Forgetting God
- We Remember at the Altar
- We Remember Jesus
- We’re Taught to Share
- What Is the State of My Heart?
- When Darkness Comes
- When the Answer’s No
- Will God Forget Me?
- Wisdom at Creation
- Wisdom in the Home
- Wisdom Is Calling: Are We Listening?
- Wisdom that Wins a King
- Your Psalm 23
Mission Monday
- A Christmas Poem
- A Christmas Poem
- A Cord of Three Strands
- A Different Kind of New Year
- A Family for Eternity
- A Family of the Word
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Store
- A Healthy Distance
- A Helping Hand in Service
- A Lesson in Grace
- A Life in Passports
- A Lion
- A New Book Is on the Way
- A Shift in Confidence: From Me to Christ
- Above All These
- Accepting the Seasons of Life
- Aches and Pains
- Am I Less Than?
- America: The Good, the Bad, and the Exceptional
- An Afternoon Off?
- An Answer Found
- An Answer Found
- An Easy Dessert in a Pinch
- Antioch Stories
- Being an American Missionary in a Presidential Election Year
- Being needy
- Birthday Blues
- Blessed Are the Networkers
- Blink and It’s Gone: Use Your Time Wisely
- Body Parts
- Building Bridges with Art
- Burnout
- Children Change Things
- Christmas in a War Zone
- Christmas Old, Christmas New
- Cleaning House
- Clearing the Clutter
- Closed Doors
- Cooking in Ministry
- Corona Lessons
- Created for Relationship
- Crisis of Faith
- Daily Rhythms
- Daily Surrender
- Debriefing as We Go
- Did God Really Say: A Crisis of Faith
- Did I Blow It?
- Did I Hear You Right, God?
- Discipleship Malaise
- Disowned
- Do Missionaries Get PTSD?
- Don’t Forget the Church
- Don’t Forget the Wives
- Don’t Pack the Past When Leaving for the Future
- Echoes of God’s Voice
- Eggs and Pastrami
- Expectation Check
- Family Fights
- Family Life in a New Missions Reality
- Feeling Guilty
- Finding Balance
- Finding Friends in Service
- Finding Inspiration for Service
- Finishing the Race
- First Impressions
- Floating Anxiety
- Food Finds and Failures
- For Further Medication
- For or With?
- Freedom Days
- Frustrated Mothers
- Get Out Fast!
- Getting Along
- Getting Used to Goodbye
- Gifting or Training?
- Give a Gift to Bless the Nations
- Giving Up
- Go Experience. Go for Good.
- God’s Call
- God’s Economy
- Good news from a distant land
- Goodbyes Are Hard to Do
- Grateful Memories
- He Gives Us a Song
- He has plans
- He Is Risen Indeed
- He Sees What We Don’t: A Lesson in Trust
- He was God’s Yes
- Holding Down the Fort
- Home in Christ
- Houses and Homes
- How Can I Pray for You This Week?
- How Long, O Lord?
- How much can I do?
- How to Get Past Regret
- I Can’t Relate
- I Disagree
- I feel their pain
- I Need Some Space
- Identity Over Faith
- Imposter Syndrome
- In Christ Alone
- In this together
- Instant Promotion
- Internal Bleeding
- Interrogation
- It’s a Small World
- It’s Their Turn
- It’s a Messy Business
- It’s Not Fair!
- It’s Too Hot to Cook
- Jars of clay, willing vessels
- Jesus Loves Me
- Just Another Day or a New Opportunity?
- Lay My Burden Down
- Leaving on a Jet Plane Ain’t What It Used to Be
- Leaving Well
- Lessons Children Teach Us
- Lessons Learned
- Let Not Your Heart Be Hardened
- Listening and Learning
- Longevity
- Looking Forward
- Losing It All
- Losing Self in Contextualization
- Love to a wife
- Loving on Single Teammates
- Loving the Differences
- Making Disciples
- Making Disciples
- Marriage and Ministry
- Marriage Evangelism
- Ministry Under Lock and Key
- Missionaries Vacation Too
- Mode of Transportation or Witness?
- More With Less
- Mr. and Mrs. Flexibility
- Multiplication
- My Go-To Cake
- My Go-To Cookies
- My Go-To Main Dish
- My Missions Partner
- My People
- Never Miss an Opportunity
- New Devotional for Missionaries
- New Novel Explores the Christian Experience for Former Muslims
- New Year, New Life
- No Clocking Out in Missions
- No Is Not a Dirty Word
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go
- One Door Closed, Another Door Opened
- Outdated
- Packing Up
- Paperwork
- Patriotism: Right or Wrong?
- Paying Attention
- Perfection Defection
- Pets in Ministry
- Pots and Pans
- Practice Makes Perfect?
- Provoked
- Pull of the Heartstrings
- Questioning Doubt
- Raising Up a New Generation of Missionaries
- Ramadan
- Ramadan Kareem
- Request for Topics
- Rethinking Long-term Missions
- Returning to Serve After Loss
- Rockin’ the Gray
- ROI in Missions
- Running Out of Juice
- Sailors Brownies
- Scraps
- Seasons in Service
- Sex
- Sharing Christmas Long Distance
- Sharing the Podium
- Singing in Prison
- Sitting on the Edge
- Small Groups Big Support
- Speaking for Christianity
- Springs of Service
- Square Peg in a Round Hole
- Stand Your Ground
- Staying Battle Ready
- Staying Grounded
- Staying in Tune
- Stepping Stones in Ministry
- Stop and Smell the Roses
- Summer Mission Trips: Next Steps
- Take action in prayer
- Talk, talk, and talk some more
- Teaching the Word
- Team Players
- Tell the children
- Telling Your Stories
- Tent Living
- Thankful for the Hard Places
- Thanksgiving: Ivory Coast
- The Battle for Sexual Purity
- The Blessing of Perspective in Service
- The Captured Released
- The Extended Family
- The Gift that Keeps on Giving
- The God of details
- The Guilt of Leaving
- The Hero of My Story
- The Importance of Hobbies
- The Lamb in the Bush
- The Last Week
- The Living Word
- The Maiden Voyage
- The Many Shades of Calling
- The Nations
- The Oasis
- The Outsider
- The Poisoned Soil of Bitterness
- The Power of a Thankful Heart
- The reality of the call
- The School of Experience
- The Sending Celebration
- The Sweet Reward
- The Testimony
- The Ties that Bind
- The Women’s Retreat
- The Year of the Cancer
- Thinking Back
- This is Love
- To Be or Not to Be
- To Speak or Not to Speak?
- Too much of a good thing
- Transformed
- Treasures
- True Fasting
- Trusting God in the Going and Sending
- Tunnel Vision
- Undeserved Titles
- Vernacular
- Vernacular
- Volunteer
- VR Meets the Gospel
- War
- Wars and Rumors of Wars
- Watching Your Country From Afar
- We come, they go
- We Grow Old While Serving
- Weather: Up-close and Personal
- We’re Fighting a Battle
- West African Groundnut Stew
- What Comes First: Christ or Culture?
- What did Jesus say?
- What in the world?
- What will He do?
- What’s in a Number?
- What’s Your Plan?
- When Bad Things Happen
- When Disaster Strikes
- When Doors Close: My New Book for Those in Cross-Cultural Ministry
- When He Spoke: Verses of the Call
- When History Affects Life
- When Home Changes
- When Home Is Not Where Your Heart Is
- When Looking Back Is Painful
- When Missionaries Take Sides
- When Sex Matters
- When the Dust Stirs
- When Trust Is Broken
- When You Know It’s Time to Go
- Where there is no Christmas
- Wherever He Leads I’ll Go
- Who Am I?
- Who Will Pray?
- Who’s Got Mail?
- Who’s Your One?
- Whose baby is that?
- Why I Write Fiction
- Why Is There So Much Evil?
- Work While It Is Day
- Work with what you have
- Working for the Infallible God Through Fallible Organizations
- Working While We Can
- Worse-case Scenario
- Worth the Cost
- Worth the Effort
- Writing Home
- You Are Not Forgotten
- You Need a Friend
- You should write that down!
The Grief Walk
- 150 Days
- A blooming stick
- A Colorful Testimony
- A Life in Passports
- A Life Marked
- A Lunch of Shared Grief
- A Mother’s Legacy
- A spacious place
- A Well-Placed Poem
- A Woman’s Glory
- Accepting both Good and Bad
- After a not-so-easy day
- Alone in a crowd
- Always His Day
- An Undivided Heart
- Another Good-bye
- Are you prepared?
- Becoming like him
- Bloom where you are planted
- Brother wonder
- Called by Name
- Celebrations
- Changing channels
- Clearly grieving
- Comfort in the Darkness: 12- Because He Lives
- Death and Taxes
- Does anyone understand?
- Doing Hard Things
- Doors
- Eternity in your heart
- Exhausted from Sorrow
- Finding Motivation
- Finishing Well
- From Father to Son
- Going Back to Church
- Going First
- Gravestones and Social Security
- Gravestones and Social Security
- Grief: It’s Not a Spreadsheet
- Hanging on by a Thread
- He chose me!
- He still speaks
- He was God’s Yes
- His mother was a widow
- His Touch
- Houses and Homes
- Humming
- I can identify…
- I feel for him
- I know Who Holds Tomorrow
- I Must Decrease
- I remember
- I spoke in his place
- If Walls could Talk
- It doesn’t count
- It really hurts
- Leaving the Door Open
- Let’s Have a Hootenanny!
- Lib a little, love a little
- Loss Deferred
- Loss Suspended
- Love to a wife
- Meanwhile…We suffer
- Memories of Place
- Missing Fathers
- My Blessings have Names
- My cloud is growing bigger
- My Memorial Stone
- My Missions Partner
- Naming Rights
- Never Grown Up
- No Answers
- No longer two, but one
- No longer two, but one
- No One to Call
- Not alone in this journey of life
- O Death, Where is Your Victory?
- O Death, Where is Your Victory?
- One more lost tie
- Ordination
- Pity Party
- Rainy Days and Mondays
- Reigning over our Emotions
- Reliving the day
- Remembering the man
- Remembering the Reason for the Season
- Returning
- Seeking the ancient paths
- Selfless Acts of Kindness
- Sister Widows
- Some stains are hard to remove
- Spring
- Stepping Out in Faith
- Sticking Together
- Still Thankful…a Year Later
- Stuff
- Tatts and Tears
- Thankful for Role Models
- The 11th month…
- The 52nd Wednesday
- The Annual Physical
- The Best Gift
- The Bridge Builder
- The God of the Living
- The Good Outweighs the Bad
- The Importance of Taking a Break
- The Joy of Pain
- The Life Event … Missed
- The Lights Still Burn
- The List
- The Note
- The offered hand
- The Other Woman
- The picture under the picture
- The ring on the chain
- The Secret Things of 2020
- The Security Blanket
- The Sting is Gone
- The sun through the shadows
- The Testimony
- The Wedding and the Proposal
- There is a time for us to wander
- This is the Day…
- This Time Last Year
- This was my husband
- Three days in a row in love and loss
- Three Funerals and a Baptism
- Towels
- Trusting
- Trusting
- Two Faces
- Two Timothies
- Undeserving Favor
- Unveiled Faces
- Waiting on the dead to arrive
- Watching from afar
- We did it to ourselves
- What Defines a Life?
- What’s Next?
- When emotions collide
- When Grief Catches Up
- When loneliness strikes
- When the Answer’s No
- When the House is Quiet
- When you give a banquet
- When your mood fits the weather
- Where are you walking?
- Who do you go home to?
- Words of Comfort and Love
- Yet…
The Library Life
Uncategorized
- A blooming rose
- A blooming stick
- A good day
- A Lesson in Grace
- A Life Marked
- A Lunch of Shared Grief
- A Message to Be Believed: Part 1
- A moment of peace
- A Mother’s Legacy
- A person not a cause
- A spacious place
- A special breed of kid
- A Well-Placed Poem
- A Woman’s Glory
- Accepting both Good and Bad
- Accountability
- After a not-so-easy day
- Age-old Wisdom
- All-sufficient merit
- Alone in a crowd
- Always His Day
- Another Good-bye
- Are you prepared?
- Are you still grateful?
- Be an Overcomer
- Becoming like him
- Before and After
- Being Wise with our Days
- Bless the children
- Block of writers
- Bloom where you are planted
- Born upside down
- Brain Food
- Brain Surgery, Heart Attacks and Floods
- Brother wonder
- CAROL FOR THE THOSE ON THE FRONT LINE: A Quarantine Carol
- Celebrations
- Changing channels
- Characteristics of Wise Words
- Choose Today
- Christian men — Rejoice!
- Christmas
- Christmas Fog
- Citizenship
- Clearly grieving
- Come on, Ya’ll!
- Common-ism
- Counting Life
- Created for Relationship
- Crystal and China
- Darkness before the light
- Defying the odds
- Desire of nations
- Detox
- Distractions
- Do not shrink back
- Do you trust Jesus?
- Does anyone understand?
- Doors
- During an otherwise calm day…
- Eternity in your heart
- Evaluations
- Exhausted from Sorrow
- Families Reaching Families
- Fever or Fervor?
- Finding Motivation
- Finishing Well
- Focus in the Frailty
- For and Against
- Freedom Days
- From Father to Son
- Games
- Gates of Hell
- Gems from Genesis: Chapter 1
- Get Out Fast!
- Glory Exchange
- Glory!
- Go and tell it
- God’s Call
- Going Back to Church
- Going First
- Good Day, Bad Day
- Good News
- Good Tired
- Gravestones and Social Security
- He chose me!
- He still speaks
- Heaping coals
- Helpless against our Prayers
- His
- His Last Day of School
- His mother was a widow
- His Touch
- Holding Hands
- Honor and Devotion
- How do I show love?
- How great’s your joy?
- Humming
- Hush and Rest!
- I can identify…
- I feel for him
- I know Who Holds Tomorrow
- I Must Decrease
- I remember
- I spoke in his place
- If Walls could Talk
- In His Hands
- In my mind I’m gone to Carolina…
- Is Jesus God?
- Is there room in your heart?
- It doesn’t count
- It really hurts
- It’s not the date that matters
- It’s Their Turn
- Jars of clay, willing vessels
- Joyful Reunion
- Knocking on doors
- Learning from the Past: Three
- Leaving the Door Open
- Leaving the field
- Lessons from the Mountainside 18
- Let the little children
- Let’s not have any quarreling
- Lib a little, love a little
- Life In Exile Overview
- Life Interrupted
- Longevity
- Loss Deferred
- Loss of Focus
- Love Them So They Ask Why
- Love to a wife
- Loving the Differences
- Making it their own
- Marriage and Ministry
- Marriage Evangelism
- Me and Jesus
- Meeting Needs
- Meetings, Muslims, and a Movie
- Memories of Place
- Missing Fathers
- My Blessings have Names
- My cloud is growing bigger
- My hometown
- My Memorial Stone
- Naming Rights
- Never Grown Up
- No Answers
- No exemptions
- No hashtag needed
- No longer two, but one
- No One to Call
- Not alone in this journey of life
- O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL: A Quarantine Carol
- O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL: A Quarantine Carol
- O Death, Where is Your Victory?
- Oboe and French
- Odd Man Out
- Old Friends
- One more lost tie
- Ordination
- Packing Up
- Pain Understood
- Paperwork
- Patience, Really?
- Pets in Ministry
- Pity Party
- Post tenebras lux
- Promises
- Pruning
- Published: The Writing Journey #2
- Purposeful Prayer
- Put your songs to work
- QUARANTINE: A Quarantine Carol
- Rain on the Righteous
- Rainy Days and Mondays
- Raising Up a New Generation of Missionaries
- Reigning over our Emotions
- Reliving the day
- Remember You Were Slaves
- Remembering the man
- Remembering the Reason for the Season
- Returning
- Seeking the ancient paths
- Selfless Acts of Kindness
- Shades of Dying
- She made a difference
- Shredded
- Siblings
- Signs of Devotion
- Sincere Love
- Singing in Tongues
- Sister Widows
- Sitting Back in Wonder
- Some stains are hard to remove
- Spiritual food for thought – Check your appetite
- Spring
- Stepping Out in Faith
- Sticking Together
- Still Thankful…a Year Later
- Stripped Naked
- Stuff
- Take action in prayer
- Taking Offense
- Tatts and Tears
- TGIF
- Thankful for Role Models
- The 11th month…
- The 52nd Wednesday
- The Annual Physical
- The Best Gift
- The Big Payback
- The Bridge Builder
- The Extended Family
- The first and only one
- The God of the Living
- The Good Outweighs the Bad
- The Hood
- The Importance of Touch
- The Joy of Pain
- The language doesn’t matter
- The Last Week
- The Life Event … Missed
- The Lights Still Burn
- The List
- The Little Details …
- The Nature of Love
- The Note
- The offered hand
- The Other Woman
- The picture under the picture
- The Prayer Equation
- The proof’s in the pudding
- The Real Question
- The Relationship that Satisfies
- The ring on the chain
- The Road Trip
- The Salt Life
- The Security Blanket
- The Sign Spoken Against
- The Sting is Gone
- The sun through the shadows
- The Top 10 Posts of 2023
- The Transformed Life
- The Wedding
- The Wedding and the Proposal
- The Whole Picture
- The Writing Journey
- The Writing Journey #3: Why I write
- There is a time for us to wander
- This is my story
- This is the Day…
- This Time Last Year
- This was my husband
- Three days in a row in love and loss
- Three Funerals and a Baptism
- Top Ten Posts of 2020
- Transition
- Treasures
- Trusting
- Two Faces
- Two steps forward
- Two Timothies
- Undeserving Favor
- Unless the Lord builds the house
- Unnatural Disasters
- Unobtrusive
- Unprepared
- Unveiled Faces
- Wait, don’t fret, it’s not over yet
- Waiting on the dead to arrive
- Walk the Talk
- Walking in His Love: A Study of John’s Letters, 26
- Walking or Stumbling?
- Watching from afar
- We all need a little exhorting
- We all need prayer
- We can wear our boots
- We’re Taught to Share
- We’re Fighting a Battle
- Weekly Wrap-up 11.9.19
- What Defines a Life?
- What if following is hard?
- What if I ask wrongly?
- What if I can’t be bothered?
- What if I can’t be trusted?
- What if I can’t believe?
- What if I can’t deny myself?
- What if I can’t forgive?
- What if I can’t hold on?
- What if I cause another to sin?
- What if I don’t choose God’s will?
- What if I don’t like being last?
- What if I don’t obey?
- What if I find feet stinky?
- What if I get smacked?
- What if I heard but don’t hear?
- What if I let a blind man lead?
- What if I lose a lamb?
- What if I stumble?
- What if I think too much of myself?
- What if I want people to like me?
- What if I want to be perfect?
- What if I’m a Pharisee?
- What if I’m fruitless?
- What if I’m not able to stop worrying?
- What if I’m not thirsty?
- What if it’s your eye’s fault?
- What if my blindness blinds me?
- What if my enemy walks in?
- What if my faith is sprinkled with doubt?
- What if my left hand finds out?
- What if my sheep lands in a pit?
- What if someone does me wrong?
- What if the debt is too great?
- What if your brother’s mad at you?
- What if…
- What sets you apart?
- WHAT TIME IS THIS? A Quarantine Carol
- What will He do?
- What’s the Secret?
- What’s your redemption story?
- What’s your response to Easter?
- When Bad Things Happen
- When Grief Catches Up
- When judgment comes
- When loneliness strikes
- When love came down
- When the Answer’s No
- When the pews are empty
- When the song is mocked
- When the Word penetrates
- When Writing meets Reality
- When you give a banquet
- When you’re weary
- When your mood fits the weather
- Where are you walking?
- Where it all makes sense
- Where pondering gets you
- Who do you go home to?
- Why such gifts?
- Why the angels sing
- Wisdom of the Ages
- Words
- Words of Comfort and Love
- Work with what you have
- Working Through the Loneliness
- Worth remembering
- Worth the Cost
- Writing Home
- Yet…
Wednesday Wisdom
- 7 Lessons God Taught Me From Cicadas
- A Clean Slate
- A Donkey and a Prophet
- A Feast
- A Glimpse of His Wrath
- A God of Compassion
- A Heart Set on Pilgrimage
- A Man of God
- A Purpose for the Pain
- A Son
- A Table in the Desert
- A Time for Awe
- A Woman of Influence
- A World Gone Mad
- A Year of Blessing
- Acts of Fine Linen
- Age-old Wisdom
- An Invitation
- And after everything
- Appreciating the Silence
- Apprentice for Christ
- Are You a Floater or Scuba Diver?
- Are you marked?
- As For Me
- Authentic Christianity
- Author Carol B. Ghattas Asks the Question Christians Fear to Voice with Latest Book
- Be Counted!
- Be Prepared
- Before and After
- Behold!
- Biting and Devouring
- Blemishes Within the Body
- Blended
- Blending In
- Born to Die
- Breaking the Habit
- Broken
- Broken Levies
- Building Bridges
- But Not
- By Faith
- Can You Explain It?
- Cancelled
- Casting Stones
- Catching Up with Friends: A View of Heaven
- Ceaseless Prayer
- Christmas: From the Beginning
- Circumstantial Awareness
- Come, Buy Without Money
- Comfort Zones
- Coming Through the Trial
- Common Sense Versus Supernatural Sense
- Common-ism
- Compassion from Unlikely Sources
- Compelled
- Confession Is Good for the Soul
- Consider How
- Count Your Blessings
- Cracked Pots
- Crossed paths for a purpose
- Cups
- Damaged but not destroyed
- Deep Roots and Grace
- Distracted
- Divesting of Self
- Do You Believe?
- Do you care?
- Do you trust Jesus?
- Does prayer matter?
- Doing Hard Things
- Don’t Set Grace Aside
- Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater
- Doubt
- Education
- Embrace Suffering
- Empty Pedestals
- Engaged in Battle
- Eternity
- Evil Days
- Exhausted from Sorrow
- Faithful Saints
- Fallow Fields
- Flabby Faith
- Flooded with emotion
- Floundering
- Follow Me
- Following Jesus with Blinders On
- For Every Crisis
- Forty Days
- Free Indeed?
- Freedom and Accountability
- Fringe Benefits
- From bad to worse
- Futile Faith
- Gaining Focus
- Gates of Hell
- Get Ready for Different
- Getting Noticed for the Wrong Reasons
- Gift Giving
- Giving Him the Right of Way
- God-Alzheimer’s
- God’s Poem
- God’s Word: The Antidote to Deception
- Grace
- Gracious Uncertainty
- Great Gain
- Grief: It’s Not a Spreadsheet
- Handwritten Letters
- Hanging on by a Thread
- He Kept His Scars
- Heartaches
- His
- Hollow Philosophies
- Hope Does Not Disappoint
- How Can I Say Thanks?
- Impatient
- Impulsiveness
- In it to win it
- In Our Work
- In the Thick of It
- Inspired and Profitable
- Is God Enough When I’m Hurting?
- Is Sin Real?
- It takes effort
- It’s the Little Things
- Jet Lagged
- Keep in Shape
- Keeping Sharp
- Keepsakes Worth Keeping
- Killing Education
- Less is More
- Lessons from Bad Examples
- Life Interrupted
- Life out of Mess
- Light and Momentary
- Light Versus Darkness
- Listening for Truth
- Live Such a Life
- Living a displaced life
- Living by the Highlights
- Living for Righteousness
- Living With the End in Mind
- Losing Patience
- Losing Touch
- Loss Deferred
- Loss Suspended
- Lost in the House of God
- Love Them So They Ask Why
- Love Turned
- Lukewarm and Safe
- Made to fail
- Maintaining Power
- Make me lie down
- Making an impression
- Making Sense of Suffering
- Marked Safe
- Meeting Needs
- My theme song
- My Times, His Times
- My Way or the Highway
- Need versus Me
- New Advent Devotional Coming Soon
- New Book Release: A Cozy Mystery Entitled Archived by Death
- News Hog
- No longer two, but one
- No Thanks Needed
- No, I’m the Worst
- Noise
- Not Alone
- Not guilty
- Not your typical college students
- Nothing by chance
- Number our days
- Odd Man Out
- One Church, Multiple Expressions
- Pain Understood
- Paradigm Shift
- Paradox
- Passing the Test
- Perspective
- Philothea
- Pillar and Ground
- Practice what you preach
- Prayers All Over the Place
- Praying the Psalms ALL CAPS
- Prone to Wander
- Puddles
- Purposeful Prayer
- Questioning the Abundant Life
- Rejoicing and Mourning
- Relief
- Repaired
- Resolve
- Respectable Sins
- Rules for Living
- Saving Face versus Honesty
- Scattered Seed
- Seasoned with Salt
- Seeing Through the Masquerade
- Serving the One They Want to Kill
- Shades of Dying
- Shaken, Not Stirred
- Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
- Shredded
- Signs of Devotion
- Skilled Workers
- Sore Feet
- Soul Repair
- Standing Fast
- Standing Firm
- Stay in Touch
- Stewarding Our Influence
- Stewards
- Stumbling Blocks
- Tents
- The Bitter and the Sweet
- The Case You Make
- The Certainty of Christ versus the Fallibility of Man
- The Courage to Go Against the Tide
- The curse of debt
- The Danger of Resignation
- The Devil’s in the Complications
- The Ecclesiastical Orchestra
- The Escape
- The escape home
- The Final Stage
- The Gates of Hell
- The God of Our Imaginations
- The God Over All
- The Good Fight
- The Grace of Humble Pie
- The Greater Glory
- The Happy Trap
- The highest expression of devotion
- The Importance of Taking a Break
- The Irony of it All
- The Jesus Test
- The Journal
- The Last Surprise
- The Masquerade of Evil
- The Melody in My Heart
- The Message of Death
- The Morning After
- The Persistence of Evil
- The Priesthood
- The Purpose of Discipleship
- The Purpose of the Church
- The Question
- The Question that Guides
- The Question that Guides
- The Real Question
- The Relationship that Satisfies
- The Requirement
- The Response to Suffering
- The Result
- The Root Cause of Community
- The Scattered
- The Sign Spoken Against
- The Sin of Self
- The Source
- The Theme of God
- The Two Seals
- The Unrealized Influence of Books and Media
- The Whole Picture
- The Year in Review
- Things we can’t avoid
- Thoughts on the Middle East
- Throwing Stones
- To Join or Not to Join?
- Tough Love
- Transformation Over Knowledge
- Trust in the Beloved
- Trusting
- Trusting His Plan
- Two steps forward
- Vain Cures
- Validation
- Very Odd Indeed
- Visible Fellowship
- Wait
- Walk in Good Works
- Walk Not Talk
- Walking or Stumbling?
- Watch How You Live
- Watch Out for Pride
- Weeding
- What do we have to prove?
- What do we know of persecution?
- What Gives Me Chills
- What God Has Joined Together
- What I might have done
- What if they hadn’t waited?
- What Keeps You from Resting?
- What Stops You from Seeking Jesus?
- What the Church Is Not
- What would they say?
- What’s the Connection?
- What’s Your Ministry?
- When Faith Hits the Fan
- When Faith Is Crushed
- When God speaks
- When God Speaks Through the Mundane
- When Grief Catches Up
- When it happens, what then?
- When life hurts
- When memory leads to sin
- When Our Faithfulness Seems Futile
- When the Props Fall Out
- When There are No Answers
- When things are upside down
- Where Our Loyalties Lie
- Where will you turn?
- While It Is Day
- Who Do You Trust?
- Whoa or Woe
- Who’s Right on World Events?
- Wisdom of the Ages
- Withdrawing
- Witness Protection Program
- Working Through the Loneliness
- Writing Backwards
- You Are in a Story
- Your Rights
What If
- What if following is hard?
- What if I ask wrongly?
- What if I can’t be bothered?
- What if I can’t be trusted?
- What if I can’t believe?
- What if I can’t deny myself?
- What if I can’t forgive?
- What if I can’t hold on?
- What if I cause another to sin?
- What if I don’t choose God’s will?
- What if I don’t like being last?
- What if I don’t obey?
- What if I find feet stinky?
- What if I get smacked?
- What if I heard but don’t hear?
- What if I let a blind man lead?
- What if I lose a lamb?
- What if I stumble?
- What if I think too much of myself?
- What if I want people to like me?
- What if I want to be perfect?
- What if I’m a Pharisee?
- What if I’m fruitless?
- What if I’m not able to stop worrying?
- What if I’m not thirsty?
- What if it’s your eye’s fault?
- What if my blindness blinds me?
- What if my enemy walks in?
- What if my faith is sprinkled with doubt?
- What if my left hand finds out?
- What if my sheep lands in a pit?
- What if someone does me wrong?
- What if the debt is too great?
- What if your brother’s mad at you?
- What if…