Sabbath & “Stretchy-Leggers”

In the fall of 2020, my husband and I packed our life into a couple of suitcases and moved from America to England for his year-long graduate program. Moving to a new country in the first year of the Covid pandemic wasn’t the best timing, as we soon found ourselves in a lengthy lock-down with…

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So, Here’s What I Want You to Do…

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.” (Romans 12:1, The Message).

I still remember the offering time in my little, country Baptist church I grew up in. The bulletin for the day always clearly stated “The Offering.”

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Can God Really Use Me?

Have you ever wondered, when God first laid out his plan for the world – who got to be involved? Or maybe it’s a little more personal, asking: Does God have a place for me in his kingdom plan? From childhood we grow up sensing God’s divine purpose for our lives. It’s a stirring – a knowing deep within us that we were made to be, made to do something extra…

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