Tag: God
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Overwhelmed?
“God’s peace be with you.” She ended the phone call before I could respond, “What? Wait a minute.” The words caught me by surprise. This week of baking, purchasing gifts, rushing children to practices and games, working, and all the activities of the Christmas season had exhausted and overwhelmed me.
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What Hope Looks Like
The first week of advent calls us to hope. Nothing spells hope more than observing someone remaining faithful after being passed over for years or experiencing great loss. That’s the story of the priest, Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. Zechariah prayed so many times for a son. A son would bring joy and honor, carry…
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Peace
How can we find peace when peace can’t be found? Wonderful calm peace!
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Somebody to Listen
The rock group Queen used to sing a song called, Somebody to Love. That’s true, we all do want somebody to love, but many times we just want somebody to listen. This amazing thing! God tells us that He wants to listen. He says to call on Him and He will show us great and…
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Getting to Know Him
In his book, Prayer, Tim Keller says we cannot pray until we understand the One we are praying to. In fact, he says all prayer is responding to God. God is the initiator. If we find ourselves wanting to pray, God is drawing us, It follows that we have some knowledge of God to even…
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Solution For the Troubled Heart
Wisdom from a Country Preacher series (Because of the high interest in my dad’s sermon notes, I decided the first Faith Friday post…
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The Gift of Pondering
Originally posted on Faithpondering: Ok, so it’s been way too long since we have posted. Maybe we (I) haven’t been doing what our blog name implies, pondering faith. Got too busy, too distracted, to take time to ponder. Today is a good day to begin again. It’s so good that God doesn’t condemn when we…
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Rolling stones
Rolling stones is a really interesting thought. Stones in and of themselves normally stay put , are used for bases for roads, foundations for homes, fireplaces and so much more. But when a stone starts rolling it takes on a life of it’s own. Did you ever kick a stone down the road? I like…
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