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How My Children Taught Me to Love the Earth
As you read this, yesterday was Earth Day. A day I previously gave zero thought to. Like many evangelical Christians, I grew up giving very little thought to the earth - it was merely the backdrop or set God built to place humanity into

Sam Martin
Apr 235 min read
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A Letter to My Lonely and Younger Self
I have a vivid memory of lying in bed, closing a book, and bawling my eyes out. I don’t remember the exact date when this happened.

Amanda Rahlf
Apr 26 min read
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Hold Her In The Light
I, for one, find this to be exactly true. The older I get, the bigger God gets. I used to think I had a pretty solid grasp on theology...

Sam Martin
Feb 54 min read
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Praise The One Who Gives and Takes Away
Exactly nine months earlier, I had shared the news with my husband that we were expecting. As first-time parents, we were excited and nervou

Amanda Rahlf
Jan 154 min read
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The Invitation of Advent
While Advent comprises four weeks with four themes, my heart tends to get stuck in week one - hope. Probably because hope seems to be the...

Sam Martin
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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Life's Obstacle Courses...uggg!
Did it seem like the Lord was putting obstacles in your way to steer you in a different direction than you had in mind?

Kaitlyn Schaefer
Dec 4, 20244 min read
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Cultivating Thankfulness
We’ve reached that time of year where I’m starting to reflect on the last 11 months and look ahead toward the flipping of the page to yet an

Sam Martin
Nov 13, 20243 min read
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Friendship:A Love Story
1// November 2011. I’m 22 and newly married, in a suburban megachurch comprised almost exclusively of families with kids. Nary a young...

Sam Martin
Feb 14, 20245 min read
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A Savior and Super Glue
Today I super-glued my tennis shoes. That’s a ridiculous sentence for a Monday morning. But it’s true. The little bottom, grippy squares...

Brittany Green
Jan 31, 20244 min read
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FFNN - I Have Not Stopped Giving Thanks
Thank you, Lord, for the warmth of coffee. Thank you for giving us the ability to smell, to feel the differences of hot and cold. You are

Bethany McMillon
Nov 15, 20235 min read
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The Man on the Mat
Most of you have heard my story, the most important part is recorded in the Bible (Mark 2:1-12 and Luke 5:18-26), but you don't even know...

Sherry Johnston
Nov 8, 20235 min read
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Power in the Pause
AUSE. A temporary stop; a break in a verse; temporary inaction; a mark used in writing or printing to correspond to a pause of voice...

Debbie Vallejo
Oct 11, 20234 min read
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Wrestling with God
“So Jacob named the place Peniel saying, ‘For I have seen God face to face, yet my life has not been snatched away.’ Now the sun rose on...

Sam Martin
Sep 20, 20236 min read
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Home, Schmome!
I played softball when I was a kid. I played second base, and we had such a fun team, The Sluggers. We all went to school together and...

Christy Williams
Sep 13, 20237 min read
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Disney and Jesus
This past weekend was spent with a lot of high school and middle school girls at Girls Retreat! As the girls minister at Frisco First, it...

Brittany Green
Apr 5, 202311 min read
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Homesickness
Sleep hadn’t come easily in the hours before. I’d tossed and turned and finally found comfort curled under the blankets. Now, my eyes...

Bethany McMillon
Mar 29, 20234 min read
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Let the Little Children Come
A few weeks ago, a truly miraculous thing happened. A thing I’ve prayed for years. My five-year- old son made the decision to love and...

Sam Martin
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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Not Today Lord!
How do you feel when someone does something despicable and then is made to pay the price? But what if, instead, they get forgiveness,...

Sherry Johnston
Feb 1, 20234 min read
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Pre-Launch Phase (Aka College Visit) Pt1
My oldest son and I just got back from a college visit to Colorado. This is my first time on this “try to help my not sure 17-year-old...

Christy Williams
Jan 18, 20236 min read
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A Knock on the Door
Josh walks through the door of his home after school hoping for someone to love him enough to see him and care he is there. His mom is in th

Debbie Vallejo
Nov 16, 20224 min read
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