By Deborah H. Bateman – Proverbs 31 questions the reader, “Who can find a virtuous woman”? The scripture is talking about finding a wife, but
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By Lynn Mosher – We live in an older neighborhood. It’s your average-middle-class-built-in-the-’70s-typical-ranch-at-the-end-of-a-quiet-cul-de-sac kind of house. The houses sit fairly close together, so our side-door
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By Heidi McLaughlin – Giorgio perfume was the craze of the mid eighties. The perfume manufacturer was savvy in its marketing techniques and only produced
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By Amy Layne Litzelman – “You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me
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By Lynn Baber – Do you ever get distracted? Is multi-tasking more difficult than it used to be? I used to believe there was some
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By Deb DeArmond – While my parents made a comfortable living, they were not beyond middle class. College for my brother required an annual visit
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By Rita Schulte – Have you ever felt lost and alone? Ever asked yourself where God is during those dark nights of the soul? It
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“But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.” Psalm 3:3 David wrote these words
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By Rita Schulte – Our world is in constant turmoil today. Everyone seems to be defending a cause or fighting a battle of some sort.
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By Olga Hermans – Have you ever been in a situation in which standing up for your rights meant stepping out of the will of
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Mission work over the years has been such a joy for me. Visiting places, seeing unimaginable things at times… some funny, some not so funny.
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By Deb DeArmond – The month of April is in fact, the time set aside to celebrate a good chuckle, a guffaw or a hearty
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By Nancie Carmichael – What quickens my pulse now is the stretch ahead rather than the one behind, and it is mainly for some clue
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By Karen Jordan – Have you ever wanted to hold on to a moment in time and savor the amazing experience a little longer? The
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By Courtnaye Richard – Today, in our modern society as young women, we have so much pulling at us. We have the pressure of the
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By Claire Vorster – “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author, 1905-1956 Have you noticed
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By Lynn Mosher – In the chilly dampness of the early morning hours, the woman gropes her way through the dark city streets of Jerusalem.
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By Lynn Baber – If you could make your life more peaceful, productive, and rewarding by making just one simple choice between two options –
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By Deborah McCarragher – Imagine visiting your local cemetery and suddenly you discover the grave you’re approaching is not only unearthed – but the coffin
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By Olga Hermans – This week for some reason I was into this thing of looking up favorite things for this and for that, have
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By Lynn Mosher – “And there came a lion.” (1 Sam. 17:34 KJV) Sneaking. Craftily. Slithering through the underbrush, like a fat snake. Gingerly touching
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By Karen Jordan – The Prayer. How do you pray for a couple, intensely focused on having a baby, but face continual disappointment? That question haunted me
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By Anita Estes – The kids are gone. There’s no toys on the floor and less laundry, but they’re still bills to pay, groceries to
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By Norine Rae – As you walk into our hall bathroom hung over the throne is a simple sign displayed for all to see. It’s
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By Carol Doyel – AS I set looking out the window watching the sun come up my heart leaps at the beauty of creation. I’ve
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By Lynn Mosher – Whipped…lashed within an inch of His life. Mocked…crowned with thorns. Slapped…beard ripped from His face. Bound…nails pounded into His flesh Ridiculed…garment
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By Heidi McLaughlin – I could hardly breathe. The memories in the house were chocking me. I had to get out. Only twenty-four short days
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By Marcia Rotella – Contrary to the dictates of this world, we don’t have to do it all; we don’t even have to be the
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By Peggy W. Lester – The little girl, not quite two years old, sat on top of the donkey. The water buckets tied securely on
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By Shari Johnson – Galatians 2:22-26 ~ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such
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By Janet Perez Eckles – I messed up. Ugh! “So, sorry,” I said to the producer. The inspirational videos we filmed this past Saturday needed
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By Deborah Bateman – We can’t even imagine how much God loves us. He loved us so much He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ
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By Lynn Baber – Hindsight is 20-20. Each of us will look back at the end of our life and clearly see the results of
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By Olga Hermans – The philosopher Plato wrote an allegory in which he compared people to prisoners chained in a cave. The only reality they
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By Peggy Lester – I love new beginnings. I must say the first of the year is my favorite time of the year. It is
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By Shari Johnson – Surely I was justified, I’m the Jesus Chick…From Whining to Winning! I read about an interview in years gone where Barbara
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By Katrina Spigner – “Your hands are too small to fix what only God can.”—Katrina Spigner I HAVE GROWN accustomed to receiving daily updates on
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By Lori Kempton – I originally had Reflections of a 50 Year Old Woman as my title, but since I want to hang onto the
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By Lynn Baber – Change your habits and you will change your life. These 15 simple ways to create new habits are easy and completely
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By Shahina Lakhani – This post is for those 99% of the people who set goals but find that the road to follow through is
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By Deborah Bateman – Have you started thinking about setting your goals for this year? What would you like to accomplish? Have you prayed about
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By Janice Davis Steele – Have you been experiencing losses lately? Have you and your spouse been robbed of the love you once shared? Have
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By Maryann Ehmann – I love the energy of the New Year. Each year, no matter how our previous year has gone, we are freshly
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By Laurie Neumann – I love the title of this website, Living Better at 50+. What better way to say it? However, do you always
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By Susan Lawrence – You can do it all, have it all, and be it all!  At least if you believe all the hype bombarding
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By Marcia Moston – I know she’s around here somewhere, and beautiful as she is, I don’t want to inadvertently stumble on her. Her fat,
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By Deborah McCarragher – Are you weary and disillusioned about a promise God made to you? Are you burdened for a loved one or a situation
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Submitted by Katherine Swarts  – IT IS WRITTEN HYMN It is written in the heavens, In each star that decks the night; It is written
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By Peggy W. Lester – After several adult mission trips to Mexico, some of us who had children decided it would be great to introduce
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By Deborah McCarragher – As I cautiously approach my fifty-fifth birthday, (or as some affectionately refer to it as the “double-nickel”) I am amazed at
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By Lynn Mosher – Ebenezer? Who is that? No, not Scrooge. This Ebenezer was a what, not a who. In the Bible, Ebenezer means stone
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By Karen Jordan – Stressed out by all of the holiday activities? The day after Thanksgiving, I found myself overwhelmed by the approaching holiday season.
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By Deborah Bateman – It’s interesting to see what other people have as some of their family Christmas Traditions. I am going to share some
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By Deborah H. Bateman – Matthew 5:9-12 Matthew 5:9-12 9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed
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By Kathleen Gibson – Grief is an unruly visitor—and even more so, when it drops in near Christmas. Surrounded by the mirth of others, the
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By Peggy W. Lester – We have just celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving here in the States. At this time of year, people express more
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By Nancie Carmichael – A year ago before Christmas I wandered the shopping center, looking at sweaters… books…games. Gift-giving can be such a delight, but
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By Marcia Moston – It was a small country church in northwestern New Jersey—tiny, by Southern church standards, but the clanging Sunday morning bell did
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By Olga Hermans – We have a beautiful painting in our living room from Ron DiCianni. It’s called “Simeon’s Moment”. It is one of my
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By Janelle Alberts – I love the bombardment of this season’s cheery props – Advent wreaths and Christmas trees and chimney stockings and of course
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Submitted by Deb DeArmond at http://mypurposenow.co/ By Mona Shriver – Do you ever mourn that you’ve disappointed God? You made a wrong choice. Responded in a way
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By Beverly Lewis – There’s been a revolution in my head. I’ve become increasingly aware that my intellect typically leads when I’m in “business mode”.
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By Karen Lembo – Do you remember that sappy song Kodak used in their old ads: “Good morning yesterday…you wake up, and time has slipped away…”?
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By Shari Johnson – I Corinthians 11 vs. 3 “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the
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By Shari Johnson – Job 13:15-16 ~ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before
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By Carol Doyel – We all love Thanksgiving and all that it represents; the dinner, family gathering together, the turkey, the beauty of a fall
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By Maryann Ehmann – As a very accepting, adaptable and patient person, not wanting to be demanding, controlling, or ungrateful, I have often crossed over
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By Olga Hermans – One of the things that all of us know about an eagle is, that they are always up in the air
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By Lynn Mosher – What is one of the best elements about Christmas, aside from the obvious of Jesus’ birth? The presents? The tree? The
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By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, When I was a young believer a prophetic minister was giving words of knowledge to
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By Susan Lawrence – I regularly travel, and since I live 90 miles from the airport, I usually stop close to the airport on my
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By Karen Lembo – (References taken from NIV) Last year, shortly before Thanksgiving, I purchased two amaryllis bulbs, prepared the prepackaged soil as instructed, and
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By Deborah McCarragher – As Christmas approaches I began thinking more about His mother Mary, and what she might have been thinking as she awaited
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By Deborah Bateman – Matthew 5:7-8 Blessed [are] the merciful: For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed [are] the pure in heart: For they shall see
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By Nancie Carmichael – …This part of the journey does not require tools for building as much as it requires tools for letting go. Our
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By Janelle Alberts – Over a woman’s prayer breakfast the other day, I asked around the table for input about the power of God’s word.
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By Peggy Lester – In the beginning of my missionary travels, I went to Mexico many times to the remote hill villages. Some of the
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By Leona Salazar – I have lots to be thankful for and consider myself a very lucky lady. I’m married to the “bestest husband in
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How to Receive Spiritual Healing-Excerpt By June Hunt – No one is “born” a bulimic, no one starts life a sex addict, no one comes
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By Lynn Mosher – Thanksgiving. Do we really give thanks? Maybe we should do as Robinson Crusoe did. In searching for something new to write
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By Kathy Bruins – What do we know about the Wise Men? During the Christmas season, we are surrounded by images of three wise men
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By Susan Lawrence – When a person changes and follows the Lord, guilt and shame is taken away. The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit
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By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, Jesus Christ is riding forth for the cause of righteousness because God’s solution for
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By Marcia Moston – “This was not the life I had pictured for myself.”- Gladys Alyward, on becoming a mule handler and foot inspector in
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By Olga Hermans – Many times I have heard people tell me they are just “waiting on God.” While it sounds very spiritual, self-sacrificing and
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By Peggy Lester – The young man stood far off in the distance just watching the activity. He was there, by the trees, every time
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By Marcia Rotella – On this very typical Saturday bursting with creative energies, my perk seemed to have out-perked me a little sooner than expected.
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Taken from, This is for YOU!: 31 Days of Life Changing Discoveries By Katrina Spigner – MY SON BEGAN his first year of college in
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By Karen Jordan – “ … I refuse to sit around and wait for someone else to do what God has called me to do
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By Peggy W. Lester – What does it mean to fulfill your God given destiny? I have shared several incidents that have made an eternal
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By Erin Casey – What would you do if you weren’t too busy? If you had a free hour… or even a free day, what
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By Brenda Neary – Forgive and forget…..Easier said than done isn’t it? However, since I know for sure that this chick has needed forgiveness from
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By Karen Lembo – One of the highlights of my summer was completing Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed: A Study of David by Priscilla Shirer, Beth Moore,
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By Deborah Bateman – Matthew 5:5-6 Blessed [are] the meek: For they shall inherit the earth. Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after
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By Lynn Mosher – Maple trees stand ready to burst forth with golden-bronze highlights. Beechnuts tickle the leaves as they fall to the ground. Red
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By Deborah Bateman – Lesson 1-Matthew 5:3-4 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed [are] they that mourn:
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By Marcia Moston – Surely there are instances when it is impossible to hold your tongue; I mean, after all, who could control herself when
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By Maryann Ehmann- 10 years ago when NYC was under attack, our grandson, at just 10 years old, experienced first hand the devastation and terror
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By Chris Wave – I hate snakes. Snakes are no friend to Homo sapiens. Achilles knew this. Cleopatra knew it and Eve knew it with
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By Grace Fox – Sometimes our lives change in a nanosecond. One minute the sky’s blue and the weather’s balmy. But in an instant—without warning
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By Karen Lembo – Although people say we look alike, my teenage daughter has a passion for adventure that bears little resemblance to my relatively
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By Kathy Bruins – The water splashed along the basin as the High Priest cleansed his hands, praying that his heart was cleansed, too. He
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By Leona Salzar – Well, maybe that’s easy for Sophia Loren to say, but what I’ve read recently about some women’s obsession to attain the
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By Peggy W. Lester – Our mission team had arrived in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. I was overwhelmed with the little village and my new
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By Maryann Ehmann – A few years ago, I was feeling quite down in the dumps. God was teaching me about His favor because He
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By CarolMarie Smith – A friend shared a dream in which she was awakened changed and I believe it is for us all! In my
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By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, I had a conversation with a young man who had lost his confidence concerning
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By Marcia Rotella – Through the automatic doors and into the lavish chair I lose myself in the cherished tranquility of the morning, and this
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By Shari Johnson – Rest does not come easy for me. Sleep comes easy, rest; not so much. I fall asleep somewhere between pulling back
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By Vonda Skelton – You may not believe this, but I know it for a fact: God talks on the telephone. Many years ago, I
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By Laura Petherbridge – Angela knew she needed to forgive Leslie but she didn’t know how. After all, Leslie had betrayed their friendship by sharing
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By Deborah H. Bateman – As 50+ women we can understand that there are different Seasons of Our Lives. There is also a time for
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By Karen Lembo – We just had the most wonderful vacation–our first cruise. One of the best things was just sitting on our balcony staring
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By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, While I was in Korea I was given a gift, a tailor made suit
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By Olga Hermans – Would you say “YES” to the following statement? “We are created by God for progress, accomplishment and fruit bearing”. Ok, so
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By Sandra Glahn – Excerpted from Sumatra with the Seven Churches (AMG). Two summers ago I joined a group on a Journeys of Paul tour
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LivingBetterat50+ invites you to meet our prayer partner Polly. We want to share prayers that Polly has video taped as she has been lead by
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By CarolMarie Smith – “When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, He saith unto Philip, Whence shall
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By Marcia Rotella – Have you spent the past 25 years or so taking so much care of others that you forgot how to take
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By Shari Johnson – I have been told for years, long before I understood it, that I have an old soul. Now as I approach
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By Nancie Carmichael – My husband Bill and I decided to celebrate our Big Birthdays by going with friends on a “Footsteps of Paul” journey.
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By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God: In these changing times we may lose some stuff and more importantly, some relationships.
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By Janelle Alberts – My husband picked out the names for each of our kids. I just didn’t have insight as to what we should
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By Karen Lembo – For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature.
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By Janet Daughtry MDIV, CBC, LBC – When we are children we love to dream. We have no problem envisioning all the various possibilities of
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By Chris Wave – Gen 28  (NECWT)  New English ChrisWave translation. Lance Armstrong wrote a book about his life called, It’s Not About the Bike…I
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