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Is your Heart Fertile Ground? Reflection on the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13)
The garden at our house exploded with produce last year. The difference fertile ground makes is truly incredible! The year before we were using the same soil that we had been using for the previous 4 years. The desperate lack of nutrients remaining in the soil was...
Human Weakness – The Secret to Super-Human Strength!
We are all too familiar with our human weakness. Do you get frustrated by failure? Do you feel that all too often your best efforts and best laid plans are thwarted by irritating nothings that somehow have the power to ruin everything? I'm pretty sure most human...
To the Christian Struggling to Accomplish their Goals
Every year you make all these amazing new goals... but, how often do we accomplish them? What is the problem? Is it that we aren't committed enough? Do external obstacles really play that big of a part? Or, maybe, just maybe, we don't know how to set the right goals?...
10 reasons to Seek a True Relationship with God this New Year
Are you still debating whether or not your relationship with God needs a little TLC this year? My guess is that you already know the answer to that question... the real question is whether or not YOU are ready to give a your relationship with God the effort and...
What God wants from YOU this Advent – The Perfect Gift
What God wants for Christmas... The Advent season culminates in a day filled with gifts... Gifts for everyone but the ONE we are celebrating. Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent Advent preparing to give the Christ Child the ONE gift He truly desires from us? But what...
How to Offer God the Gift of your Presence
Presence is a powerful thing... Every morning I wake up and my husband is gone to work already. At 6:30 I get the kids breakfast on my own and begin the day, usually with a lot of grandiose plans. However, as the hours pass, I begin to lower my standards to survival...