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how to be intentional about building our best word-robe
This woman’s blog was one of the first I ever read and she’s never stopped being a mentor to me. Karen Ehman and I have prayed for and cheered each other on as neighbors across the Canada/Michigan...
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What Are You Paying Attention To?
You’re warmly invited: a gentle peek into our 40+ Day Audio Lenten Journey, available as a daily audio devotional, directly emailed as a gift of sincerest thanks and friendship to all who subscribe,...
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The One Practice to Get You Through Hard Seasons, and Why It’s Important
Our 4 little boys, what we called “the future men” – have become men, growing up right here, story after story, year after year, and I literally could not be more excited to hear our oldest son, Caleb...
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How to Slay Fear
Can I read to your heart, slay some fear, while your hands tend to something else? Just click the audio player above for a gentle peek into our 40+ Day Audio Lenten Journey, available as a free daily...
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Palm Sunday’s Key of an Unexpected Way to Find Healing Peace on the Hardest Days
Can I read to your heart this Palm Sunday?Just click the audio player below to listen to a special Palm Sunday peek into our Audio Lenten Journey. I confess, it can be real easy to be the one who...
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What Your Holy Week Tenderly Needs: Meaningful (Free!) Tools for a Memorable...
It’s only a couple of days since we waved our pine branches found in the woods — yeah, no exotic palm fronds here on the farm — and we sang our Hosanna! Hosanna! — literally Save Us! Save us! And the...
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Why Holy Week Wednesday Really Matters: How to Have a “Silent Wednesday”...
It’s just a few days before Easter, a few days before everyone sheds their old grave clothes to be decked out in beauty and a bonnet for Easter Sunday morning, when she turns to me and says,“I just...
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BETRAYED? HURT? You Can’t Miss This on Holy Thursday
You know how you once cracked jokes with them, did life with them? How you made loud, laughing memories with them around tables, had grown real bonds of friendship for each other, and you actually...
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How Good Friday Changes Everything
There’s a burnt and charred Cross that hangs over my desk. Like the whole world’s been more than a bit burned after the last couple of years and everyone’s kinda staggering to the foot of the Cross....
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Why Keeping On with Lent Can Keep Growing Your Soul
First full week of Lent. And — sigh — I keep falling, and failing, and standing there at the kitchen window, scanning the horizon, and returning to why this practice of Lent is worth keeping, worth...
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Give Up All Kinds of Shaming for Lent: Why Shame Anyone in Pain?
Lent can ache with loneliness that ends up feeling like a kind of wilderness. “Lent can ache with loneliness that ends up feeling like a kind of wilderness.” The Farmer and I, after a long season of...
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Does Prayer Really Matter In the Face of All Kinds of Disasters?
I’ve got no idea who went ahead and just pulled out a Sharpie marker and circled a bunch of dates on the calendar, but there it is, dates with Sharpie ink ringing around them like circling vultures....
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What Your Holy Week Tenderly Needs: Meaningful (Free!) Tools for a Memorable...
It’s only a couple of days until we’ll wave our pine branches we’ll go find in the woods — yeah, no exotic palm fronds here on the farm — and we’ll sing our Hosanna! Hosanna! — literally Save Us! Save...
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Why Holy Week Wednesday Really Matters: How to Have a “Silent Wednesday”...
It’s just a few days before Easter, a few days before everyone sheds their old grave clothes to be decked out in beauty and a bonnet for Easter Sunday morning, when she turns to me and says,“I just...
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The Greatest Passion You (Or Humanity) Has Ever Known…& Why Good Friday Matters
This is the hour He pours out His passion for you. This crucifixion moment in history is an international, global, cosmic event, this heralding Jesus as king not to only one people, but as King of the...
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