AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
Christianity
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Just James – Scripture Memorization Challenge
My first attempt at writing out James 1:1-11 from memory. Writing aids with memory! This past week, I discovered that a couple of friends had committed themselves to trying to memorize the book of James over the course of a year. This piqued my interest for a couple of reasons. Through my women’s bible study…
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Discipleship
My church is currently being challenged to read through the entire New Testament of the Bible in 8 weeks. I wrote up the following after reading through week 5: the book of Matthew. We are all reading a version of the New Testament called The Books of the Bible, which uses neither chapter nor verse…
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Ready to Go
My church is currently being challenged to read the entire New Testament of the bible in eight weeks. That’s a lot of reading, and calls for a heavy commitment each day and each week. I am in a couple of different bible studies at my church and we are going through these readings as our…
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The Desires of the Heart
What are the desires of your heart? What is it that you want more than anything? A spouse? A child? A job? Financial security? Good health? Fill in the blank…there are a myriad of things that we chase after as the one thing that we think we need to be fulfilled. What do I want…
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Thunderstorm
I’m not much of a poet, but in college I had to take a creative writing class which involved writing LOTS of poetry, among other things. One of the poems I wrote was about thunderstorms—where I tried to capture my simultaneous fear and fascination of storms. I do get legitimately freaked out at a big…
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My Relationship with God
A friend of mine asked me a tough question the other day. Tough in the sense that it’s hard to give a concise answer. But it got me pondering. The question posed was this: “What does your relationship with God do for you?” To compound the challenge of trying to be concise, this question was…
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Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
Well, I decided it was finally time to finish my Fruit of the Spirit study. We never quite finished it in small group, as we moved on to other topics, but I at least wanted to wrap it up here. We are now down to the last fruit: self-control. What is self-control? I like the…
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Hope, Healing and Restoration
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
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A Cry for Mercy
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
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The Thorn in My Flesh
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
At the Water's Edge 