Category: A Transformed Life

Today we light the Advent candle of peace. In honor of the day, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee in front of a roaring fire, sleepily staring out our picture window at the misty mountain engulfed in clouds, a dove lit on the rail inside our porch terrace. A dove! He flew…
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Having a heart of Advent means preparing for the Lord’s return. A big part of preparing for the second coming of Christ involves waiting. As His people, we must wait. In faith, we “wait for the Lord, and in His word we hope” (Psalms 130:5). Even when “God hides His face, we wait with hope”…
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Excerpts from my favorite prayer book… “We die; indeed we have to die in order to be resurrected, restored, [transformed], and renewed. We die and we die and we die in this life, not only physically-within seven years every cell in your body is renewed-but emotionally and spiritually as change seizes us by the scruff…
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Today would have been my brothers’ 56th birthday… and I miss him. We were only 14 months apart. Where Mark went, I went. Where I went, Mark went. As Forest Gump would have said, “we were like peas and carrots”. My brother was not only brilliant, but Mark was such a fun-loving, energetic, and insightful…
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I read a good word today… I have re-posted it for your instruction. This word is a passage from David Platt, Follow Me, 140-142. The Purpose of the Spirit in Our Lives By Secret Church                     “Just as Jesus filled his disciples with his power and…
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Do you ever feel like you are living in a desert with skin, throat, and eyes dry, parched and scratchy, yet longing for the fresh spring of oasis? God can help. He calls you to Sabbath rest in His oasis. He has done it before…. You caused abundant rain to fall and restored your worn-out…
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Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! Psalms 96: 1-3 Three times we are called to sing unto the…
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You may have noticed, I haven’t written in a while…. I have been tired; bone tired. Wearied, beyond all hope of strength… Ever been there? I know, I know; Followers of Christ aren’t supposed to wither and wilt in the desert, because we have God’s strength; the vitality and lift of eagles wings soaring above…
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We are still snowed in from the 2014 Snow-pocalipse…. And the idea of being transformed; transfigured; metamorphosis is still fresh. We CAN be changed from glory to glory; from grace to grace; morphing from one form to another; becoming something altogether new, which is a very exciting thought…. As, transformed believers, we follow God in…
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Couldn’t sleep tonight. Yesterday had been a rough day, not enough hours or better still, too many hours consumed in insurmountable problems. Some days I long for the faith of Peter. Acts 12:6 tells us, Peter slept while imprisoned, awaiting trial for a capital crime and chained by the arms between two large, smelly, Roman…
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