Encouragement

When God is moving in your life you can bet the enemy is too!

When God is Moving in Your Life then You Can Bet the Enemy is Too!

When I was newly saved back in 1996, I saw God do one miracle in my life after another and my faith in Him increased mightily!  But as I saw God’s hand in my life, I also saw the Enemy hard at work looking to come to steal, kill, and destroy. But then the miracles…
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When Christmas Doesn’t Measure Up to Your Expectations

I wasn’t expecting to hear her words when I made the phone call. With a long pause, I could tell her illness was causing her speech to be slow.  She strained to form the words in her mind and then to utter them to me. “I’d like to see you,” she said. My daughter’s heart…
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A Christmas Letter Written by a Dog!

The Year of 2010 in the Engle household From the perspective of Scruffy, the dog While I sit outside everyday and peer through the sliding glass doors of my house, I watch my owners and their children go through life. And the following is what I have witnessed over the last year… They moved me…
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From the Cradle to the Cross…He Came Just for You

Push aside your to-do lists for a few moments and take a look at this video.  Every time I watch it I’m moved to tears. The King has left His throne. The Everlasting Light has come. His Only Son was given to me.  And given to you. Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!  2 Cor.…
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From My Family to Yours….

Here’s me and my men on our annual Thanksgiving Day hike up in Mt. Baldy, California! My Beloved, Eric, is next to me, of course.  Noah, my youngest, (age 11) is behind my man.  Seth, (age 13) is over my shoulder.  I’m sure he’s holding a rock ready to plunge it straight into the water…
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How Many People Have Done This for You?

My family and I recently watched The Nativity Story the other night.  It’s one of my most favorite Christ-centered traditions to do at Christmas each year while sipping hot chocolate with the men in my life! I doesn’t matter if I’m in a pit or on a mountain top, this  movie always ministers to me.…
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How to Create a Low-Cost to No-Cost Christmas

Since I wrote my recent post on, How to Have the Best Christmas Ever, it kinda struck a chord for many women.  I’m guessing my sisters’ in Christ felt it was okay to share their hurts and fears. And let me just say for the record…IT IS OKAY TO SHARE YOUR HEARTACHE AND PAIN!   That’s what…
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Why My Heart Breaks

It breaks for the Christian woman who is barely holding on to her faith in Christ. It breaks for the wife who is in a marriage filled with strife, bitterness, loneliness, opression, or God forbid, a form of abuse. It breaks for the weary woman who doesn’t know where to turn for strength, hope, and…
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Don’t You Just Love Him!

Photo Source Dwell on who He is rather than your circumstances! Have a blessed Friday looking to Him in all things. Live a poured out life for Christ, Jolene
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An Outcast at Christmas

The Christmas festivities and parties will be in full swing soon.   A time to spend with family and friends. But not all will receive us. We will feel rejected by those that are either the closest to us or perhaps those that hardly know us.  Either way, rejection hurts. We will be like an outcast.…
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