Tag Archives: encouragement

Five Minute Friday — Where

Five Minute Friday is designed for Friday writing, specifically five minutes of uninterrupted patter of the fingers representing the thoughts of the heart, soul and mind. Our fearless moderator Kate Motaung  — with help from her Twitter friends — supplies … Continue reading

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Faith

This week’s Sunday reflection focuses on Christ healing a Roman officer’s son/servant in Matthew 8:5-13 from The Interpreter’s Bible. Matthew’s ambiguous pais  can mean either “son” or “servant.” Luke understands it unambiguously as “servant” (Luke 7:2), while the related story in John … Continue reading

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We Come to You, Lord

I hope this becomes a Saturday fixture. I know the requests are on my prayer list and I hope you consider putting them on yours as you place your petitions before the Lord Sunday. Andrew, despite pain and suffering, shared … Continue reading

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Five Minute Friday: Convenient

Here’s this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. You might remember the task is to write for five minutes on a specific prompt word. Then, post and encourage others who have braved the exercise by linking up at Kate’s spot … Continue reading

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Q & A

One of the downsides of publishing is the need to promote it … especially if you’re not necessarily into self-promotion. That’s me. I want to build readership {and sales} for the novella Heaven Shining Through and the collection of essays, … Continue reading

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Power of Words

It’s time to share this week’s Words for the Week. This come from Chris Snook from his original book Wealth Matters, co-written with Chet Snook. I picked these words to share because, I feel, we are in the middle of a no-holds-barred war … Continue reading

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Let’s pray

I hope this becomes a Saturday fixture. I know the requests are on my prayer list and I hope you consider putting them on yours as you place your petitions before the Lord Sunday. June shares her great-grandson Jaiken was … Continue reading

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Five Minute Friday — Influence

Welcome to Five Minute Friday. The task is to write for five minutes on a specific prompt word from your mind and heart. Then, post and encourage others who have braved the exercise by linking up at Kate’s spot on … Continue reading

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This Day

It started as a way to spend time praying for my family, friends and faith partners and share with them some nugget of encouragement for the week. Sometimes it’s a sentence. Sometimes a paragraph. Sometimes a story. I’ve discovered each … Continue reading

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The Voice of the Lord

The sevenfold occurrence of the phrase the voice of the LORD in Psalm 29 intrigues me. Then, when we come to the Matthew reading, the words of Isaiah Jesus quoted arrest our attention, This people honors Me with their lips … Continue reading

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