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Engage in the Fight Against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery {The Atlanta Journal Constitution}
In 2007, the U.S. Senate designated Jan. 11 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Since then, awareness and advocacy campaigns have expanded to the entire month of January throughout the country, as both secular and religious organizations expose the horrors of...
2021 America – A Reflection on the Founding Principles of our Nation {Recharge Wedneday LINKUP}
“Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding.” “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.” I immediately recognized the quotes engraved on the walls of the Library of Congress — one from...
New Year Reflections from “The Bishop’s Wife” {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
Are you doing more and enjoying it less? Growing up, I often heard, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” It took me a while to realize the devil also uses busyness to steal, kill, and destroy. The 1947 Christmas movie The Bishop’s Wife challenges the idea that more...
New Year Does Not Mean Our trials Are Over {The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}
“Wake us up when 2020 ends! 50 quotes that sum up how everyone feels about the past year.” The headline preceded an article in Parade magazine, filled with funny and insightful quotes for the year that changed life as we knew it. I read each quote, amused and...
View from a Mountaintop {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
What is it about mountains? Moses met with God there. The Samaritans and Jews argued over which one people should worship on. People have called them holy. Jesus went up them to pray. We marvel at photos of them, take vacations to climb them, and even use them in...
Looking Back at 2020… Moving forward in 2021
Dear friends, Christmas morning met us with many reasons to celebrate. We were incredibly blessed to be able to celebrate Christmas with Steve’s family in Chattanooga. As we opened our gifts for the first time in our new home on Christmas morning and had our...
Holy Night for a Holy Knight {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
The first Christmas was a silent and holy night. I’m familiar with silent nights. Because they track me down and schedule dates on my calendar. You see, I lose my voice about once a year, unable to squeak out a single word. Laryngitis sets up residence in my vocal...
Advent Celebrations Reinforce Significance of Jesus’ Birth {The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}
The term “Advent” originated from Latin “adventus,” which means “coming” or “arrival.” The Latin term, translated from the Greek word “Parousia,” is the term used in the New Testament’s original text for the second coming of Christ. Therefore, the Advent season is...
A Christmas Dare {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
"For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus...
How a White Christmas Showed Me God’s Love {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
The first Christmas I spent away from my family was also my first Christmas walking with the Lord. I was living in Needham, Massachusetts. Having grown up in the deep south, my assignment to Boston out of college couldn’t have been more exotic if it’d been Mars. I...
Sometimes Tough Love Is the Best Gift {The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}
The prophet Ezekiel was one of the 10,000 exiles taken to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 B.C. During that time, God appeared in a magnificent vision while Ezekiel was among the Jews camping by the Kebar River, located in modern-day Syria. When God called...
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