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When the World Changed

It was March 11, 2020 when the world changed.

That was the day a basketball game made the coronavirus pandemic real.

The Utah Jazz were in Oklahoma City getting ready to play the Thunder in a regular season game. The game never even started. Players were on the court, and tip-off was about to take place. Both teams went back into their locker rooms and the crowd was told the game had been postponed and asked to leave in an orderly fashion. We found out afterwards, it had been discovered that one of the Jazz players tested positive for the virus. About an hour and a half later, the NBA suspended the rest of the season.

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Distracted Into Darkness

You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.

Matthew 13:14-15
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So Loved

 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

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Right Where You Are

Little did I know the blessings God had in store for me when I decided to rejoin the workforce about two years ago. Oh, I knew full well His Divine intervention is what placed me here, although it seemed unlikely to me that I would be much good to my colleagues, not to mention how I could glorify God in this new line of work. That was all I wanted to do though – glorify God and in some way be a blessing to those I work with. Odds felt pretty slim Broadcast News would be the place the Lord would need me.

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A Real Crisis

You may have been in a store sometime in the last few days, or seen a story on the news, and discovered that there’s a shortage in toilet paper. Amid the outbreak of the latest Coronavirus incarnation, COVID 19, a public panic over toilet paper found fertile ground in social media and has since spread faster than the virus itself. The shelves are empty everywhere. People have been seen in big box stores with mountains of toilet paper in their carts. The more pictures and stories showed up on social media, the more shoppers rushed to the stores to stock up on toilet paper. Fueled by fear, people fight each other over the last package.

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The Power of Pride: Part 3

Is Pride Really a Problem for Christians?

Pride can affect the most spiritually sound and mature Christian. Its dangers are real, and it’s alive and thriving in our world.

It can create deep wounds that leave ugly scars.

Pride can have destructive repercussions that change your life and/or the lives of those around you forever.

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The Power of Pride: Part 2

To see Part 1 of this series, CLICK HERE.

In Part 1, we began to look at the power of pride. I asked you to complete a Self Examination to help expose any areas in your life where pride might be hiding. The exam was based on only 5 areas I chose to focus on. Pride can be hiding in many other places in your life. This examination was meant to provide you with food for thought.

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The Power of Pride: Part 1

Powder Puff Pride

Powder puff football is dangerous.

But, not nearly as dangerous as pride.

Combine the two, and you get a 40 year-old woman enduring the first surgery of her life to repair a meniscus and totally reconstruct the ACL in her knee.

Yeah, yeah…powder puff football sounds safe. Everyone thinks it’s just this fun, easy-going, quasi football game for girls. I mean, any sport with the word PUFF in its very name couldn’t possibly be dangerous. The moniker conjures visions of sweet little girls running around in pig tails and doggy ears adorned with fluffy hair bands and eye black in soft pink and made of glitter. These teams sat around before the big game braiding each others’ hair and painting their fingernails to match their jerseys. Continue reading The Power of Pride: Part 1

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The Work of Our Hands

I left teaching – for the second time – about two years ago. I was writing a lot on the blog and for a book, with a couple of other books stewing around between my brain and my husband’s. I was very passionate about my relationship with God and devoted to enriching that with study. I told my co-worker, Misty, that I felt like my job was getting in the way of my work. After praying about it, discussing it, and with the support of my husband, I quit my job in education with full intentions to… “Work full-time for Jesus,” as I responded to all who inquired.

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God Before Cowboys

John Wayne was my hero when I was a little girl. His charisma made him larger than life. He was distinctly masculine, courageous, strong, good, right, honest & sincere. A true-blue American hero, but he wasn’t a hero for just America. The whole world loved him. I desperately wanted to be Mattie Ross. For years, I dreamed I could somehow play that role and reshoot True Grit with John Wayne and all the world would be right. I cried and cried when they shot and killed his character in The Cowboys. I thought they really killed the Duke! My dad explained that he wasn’t really dead – he was just an actor and it was just pretend. What a relief!

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