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Telling the Story: Use your words
This week we are celebrating the fourth anniversary of my mom being with Jesus. I’ve been reminiscing and pondering all the good things about her. She was an amazing encourager. She used her words for good and the good of others. Don’t ever take your words for granted. Many times we tell kids (or adults),…
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Telling the Story: Appalachian funerals
A funeral in Appalachia is an emotional and wonderful thing. If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending a mountain farewell celebration, there’s much to be appreciated. Last weekend, the funerals of two of my beloved’s cousins were held back home in Belfry. At first, cousins from all over Kentucky, Ohio and New York hugged,…
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Telling the Story: Doing a new thing
In Isaiah 43:19, the LORD said, “See, I am doing a new thing…” But I don’t always love new things, new ways. At times, when things change, I’m dragging my Crocs on the way. These days I find myself praying often for the Lord to help me be flexible. Not bendy, but easier to adapt. I know not all change…
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Telling the Story: Seek me and find me
The girls sat around the wall. Some on mats, some in plastic chairs. Their breakfast trays came so they ate while we studied. Last Sunday morning at 7 a.m. sharp we had the privilege of meeting the girls at the county jail for Bible study. It was before the snow started and everything was canceled…
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Telling the Story: Not a heart like Herod
Herod was a terrible person. We know it from the Bible (Matthew 2); history records his evil deeds. He’s been the bad guy of the Christmas story for a long time. Though thousands of years have passed, we can still learn from his notorious ways. Make that what not to do. When the wise men…
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Telling the Story: Prayer and the wish book
Way back in the 1900s, there was an amazing, magnificent, almost magical book of wishes. Each year, the Sears, Roebuck, and Company issued a treasured catalog containing all the toys on earth, and it went to Every. Single. Household. Kids young and old anxiously awaited its arrival in the fall. Dolls of every size and…
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Telling the Story: The ‘Do not be afraids’ of Christmas
It’s hard to let go of Christmas. The “Do not be afraids”are still on my mind. When the angel visited Mary in Nazareth, the words gushed from Gabriel’s mouth: “Do not be afraid…you have found favor with God.” Seeing an angel right in front of her would have been terrifying. Pondering it from this side,…
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The enemy at Christmas
Many moons ago, my beloved was sharing a difficult church situation with his mentor, Dan Garland. Things had been going splendidly…then they were not. Dan Garland is a treasure. He has been a godsend to us. Since our friendship began in 1999, when he served as the KBC Evangelism director, he has shared from his…
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Telling the Story: Mary’s Song
Have you ever been so filled with the joy of the Lord, or overcome with appreciation that He has met a secret or public need, or He has saved your bacon AGAIN and you just can’t get over that He still puts up with you or He has pulled you out of a pit or…
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Telling the Story: Team Mary and Joseph
A middle schooler recently told his mother he didn’t like Sunday School because he knew all the Bible stories already. I got a little bit tickled but beg to differ with that young man. Even though I am 62, every single time I open God’s Word, He speaks to me. Unfortunately, I’ve been there as…
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