It was a Dark and Stormy Night
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Today’s Truth
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. Â So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. Â For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” Read more…
Today’s Truth
“If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her,” (John 8:7 NIV).
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“What are we going to do with this Jesus,” the chief priest asked the group. “He is going about healing people left and right. Everywhere I go the buzz is about Jesus. Read more…
Today’s Truth
“Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, “I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17 NIV emphasis added).
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Jesus knew it was coming. Read more…
Today’s Truth
“Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6b NIV).
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When we read the story of Jesus healing the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, it is hard for us twenty-first century women to imagine such a condition lasting for so long. Medical science has progressed far beyond the rudimentary knowledge of Jesus’ Read more…
Today’s Truth
“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering,” (Mark 5:34 NIV).
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“Gone. All gone.”
For twelve long years, she had been bleeding. Over 4,380 days.  Lydia had gone from doctor to doctor to try and stop the flow, but as the years progressed she only worsened. Read more…
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Today’s Truth
“After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Read more…
Today’s Truth
“His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you,’” (John 2:5 NIV).
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It was a beautiful day for a wedding. Mary only hoped it would hold out for the seven days of celebration that would follow. She was glad for the break in the mundane activities of running a household, Read more…
Today’s Truth
“And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone, (1 Thessalonians 5:14 NIV).
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As I sat on my screened-in porch early one Spring morning, I was taken aback with the beauty surrounding me. A layer of mist rose from the serene waters of the lake and hovered just above the surface. Read more…
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 “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today…” (Hebrews 3:13 NIV).
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My husband, Steve, was pumping gas. It seemed like he was always pumping gas. Living out in the country and driving into town each day required gas, and a lot of it. As he stood holding the nozzle and watching the numbers rapidly roll by higher and higher, Read more…
Today’s Truth
Isaiah 59:1 (NIV) “Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.”
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I was just a wisp of a girl – a six-year-old, forty pound monkey with gangly arms and legs who vowed she could do anything her eleven-year-old mischievous brother, Read more…
