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What ages have been hardest for you?  I still think that being 14 is the age I’d never want to re-live, but thirty-five was also a hard year for me.  That year it hit me that life wasn’t turning out the way I had expected - and I also had to face the reality that it...

This week in my Bible studies we looked at our identity as a child of God.  Since I was blessed to have my earthly father until he died earlier this year, I have been able to understand God as my Father from the perspective of a child.  But part of God’s plan for me...

As we finished our study of Exodus on Tuesday night, one of the women shared that studying it had “made the New Testament come alive”.  I love that!  And I knew exactly what she meant. One place where studying Exodus has made the New Testament come alive for me is in...

This blog post is a guest post, written by a dear friend of mine since college, Jean-Marie VunCannon.  Jean-Marie is the Director of Women's Ministries at Arden Presbyterian Church in Arden, NC and sends regular emails to encourage the women in the church.  This is...

How do you think non-Christians would describe Christianity today in our country?  Cas Monaco shared with us at our November event that some of the adjectives used in a survey done by Cru in 2016 were “offensive”, “inauthentic”, “unsafe”, and “irrelevant”.  My guess...

Have you ever prayed for something that seems impossible?  That seems so impossible that while you are praying for it, there’s a thought in the back of your mind going, “No way is this going to happen!”  I've prayed several prayers like that over the years,...

In the month of July, I went to three funerals.  The first was a graveside service for the father of a friend whom I met at Clemson and had the blessing of leading in Bible study for many years.  The second one was for my dad’s cousin.  And the third was for a friend...

Mother's Day is just around the corner!  Last year I was able to go home and see my parents for Mother’s Day.  On Saturday, I took Dad shopping to get some gifts for Mom.  One thing on her list was some lantana to plant in the yard.  Even though they live well within...

The verse just leapt off the page.  Have you ever had that happen?  We were sitting in a small group in Sunday School and someone was reading 2 Corinthians 4:1-15.  But my mind stopped at verse 7: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing...

I left Bible study today really sad and heavy-hearted.  Afterwards, I went to get an allergy shot and found myself holding back tears as I sat in the waiting room.  As I mentioned in my last blog post, these kinds of tears are unusual for me. We were discussing Titus...