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Addiction effects the entire family. After recovery or even during recovery, the family will face consequences of the addict’s poor choices such as financial difficulties and health problems due to the chronic stress of dealing with an addict. When a family member who is in recovery comes back into the ...
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March, 2016
- 2 March
Is Your Default Setting One of Attitude or Gratitude?
Sometimes I just hate computers and everything that involves computers! I spent all of the last week going around and around with three different computer/program-related problems. First off, I was having trouble with my e-mail that was venting off somewhere into cyberspace after I transferred my domain name from one ...
Read More » - 1 March
I Just Want To Testify: Simple as 1, 2, 3–My Personal Story (Part 2)
In my last article, I posted a user-friendly list of questions (suggested by Shannon Ethridge) that make telling your HIS-tory with Jesus a simpler process. Plugging your specific details into the answers to three easy questions makes for a beautiful testimony of God’s redeeming power. I know it will give ...
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February, 2016
- 28 February
The Word of God is Never Void
God’s Word was here before the beginning of time. God and His Word are so intertwined that God honors His Word above His name. His Word is very important to Him because He cannot lie and every prophetic Word He has ever spoken will surely come to pass. (Prophecies that ...
Read More » - 28 February
Where’s The Doctrine?
The older generation may remember a television commercial decades ago when hamburger fast-food chains were opening. It featured an elderly lady driving up to the window and yelling, “Where’s the beef?” Today, many Christians should be asking, “Where’s the doctrine?” To call oneself a Christian, doctrine does matter. But sometimes ...
Read More » - 26 February
Fear: A Treasure?
False Evidence Appearing Real Often, this is what fear is: something vague, somewhere in the distance, something deceptive that seems so real to our emotions. We fear the very thought of so many dreadful things that could happen, though most will never materialize. The thought “what if” often brings with ...
Read More » - 24 February
Take a Step Back and Breathe in the Holy Spirit
This last month of my life has been like a whirlwind. I have had major changes come into my life–good changes but they have disrupted my normal routine. I have tried so desperately to connect to God this month, but I have been consumed with the cares of this life. ...
Read More » - 24 February
God’s Got Your Back!
Have you ever had a Bible verse or passage jump out at you? I certainly have, and most of the time, it’s a verse or passage that I know I’ve read a hundred times or more. And I find myself wondering, How in the world did I miss that? It’s ...
Read More » - 23 February
Are You Flogging the Donkey?
In the Bible, Numbers 22 carries a very powerful story about a seemingly stubborn donkey. You see, Balaam was summoned by a mighty king to come over and lay a curse on the Israelites. God advised him not to go, but he insisted on going anyway. He stood to gain ...
Read More » - 23 February
I Just Want To Testify–As Simple As 1,2,3 (Part 1)
As the curtain opens, an individual humbly approaches the podium. This one begins to testify; reporting the astounding details of the mighty moves of God in their life. Often their story consists of insurmountable, seemingly impossible circumstances gripping them so tightly they assume they will never break free. The audience ...
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