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How to Study the Bible: Let’s Do Inductive Study – Part One!

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TOOLS FOR Inductive Study A Bible, a notebook, colored pencils or highlighters and an amazing cup of coffee are wonderful tools for the OBSERVATION phase. Commentaries, lexicons, concordances, cultural background books, and maps, along with other tools are most helpful in the INTERPRETATION phase of study. Although these may be easy to dive into, resist. Doing OBSERVATION without these tools is critical for the process and helps to set aside one's own presuppositions when coming to the text. Continue reading →

Spoil Yourself Silly on a Shoestring! A Must for all MUMS!

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Mother's Day is vast approaching! Being a mother of three, and now a mother of special needs, following the greatest two New Testament Commandments is an absolute NECESSITY to keep balance at the forefront and to nourish ones own self in order to give out of an overflow! Loving yourself in the same and like manner as you love others was the intent of Jesus message in the second New Testament Commandment... Continue reading →

An ASD Easter, a Challenge or His Opportunity? April is Autism Adventure Month!

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This autism diagnosis does not define our family, but it sure does present a few extra challenges, or shall I say “opportunities”? Sometimes, in life, we make the choices, and sometimes the choices make us; into growing and stretching (often not willingly), as we journey down a path we never dreamed. A journey oft begun with shock, then grief, and then ever so gently can become a season of being before we start becoming (again). We are choosing peace over closure on this journey, are hopeful for the years of early and ongoing intervention, which is often coupled with exhaustion for myself, and know He holds the future for us all anyway. Continue reading →

Internalizing God’s Love: Fulfilling Profound Longings to Feel Valued

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May I propose a thought that no matter the answer, or the area in which it would feel strongly to be recognized, accepted, or valued, that that affirmation would be short lived or not reach to the depths of the soul? It may be like a warm blanket on a cold and drafty day, but not as the “chicken-noodle soup of the soul” that reaches the depths of the longing to feel loved, accepted, or valued. Continue reading →