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Watercolor Wednesday: Majestic Mountain
Fresh off the canvas – a watercolor my dad created today for one of the art classes he leads for seniors. To me this picture speaks of rest and beauty; of solitude and God’s presence. What do you see?
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Weekly Devotional: Sabbath Feast (12 in Sabbath and Rest series)
“Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.” Luke 14:1–23 (NIV) When I was speaking at a women’s day a couple of years ago, I led the group in an imaginative prayer exercise about how God is the architect of our homes. In our mind’s eye we moved…
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Forgiveness Fridays: The Sacrifice and Rewards of Forgiveness by Maureen Chapman
Childhood wounds can be devastating, as we see in Maureen Chapman’s story. But we don’t have to be defined by them, as she shows. I have spent most of my 7 decades of life learning about forgiveness. I was born on the morning of the first day of World War 2 in North London, England.…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Desert Sunset
Maybe this painting appeals to me today because it’s another soggy and cool day in Londontown. August weather this is. My dad’s painting is of a desert sunset, where the days are hot with a dry heat, which warms you right up when you inhale it. I know heat is heat, however, and that many…
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Weekly Devotional: Lord of the Sabbath (11 in Sabbath and Rest series)
“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:23—3:6 (NIV) The Sabbath stories we read this week reveal how Jesus bursts through the rules and regulations of the teachers of the law. Over generations they had added layer upon layer…
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Forgiveness Fridays: If we had just one day… by Debbie Duncan
Debbie Duncan asks some searching questions, all brought to her mind when her daughter spotted a dragonfly over the water. What would you do if you had just one day to live? Recently on one of our recent hot, summery days we decided to escape the heat of the house and head to a place…
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Watercolor Wednesday: City Life
Some can’t imagine living in a city, but I love the buzz of conversation, cultural happenings, and the mixture of people from scores of different nationalities living together. Of course major cities can be terrorist targets, as we’ve seen in London this year. But we also see in the book of Revelation that God will…
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Weekly Devotional: Amazing Authority (10 in Sabbath and Rest series)
The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching – and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.” Mark 1:21–31 (NIV) The gospels recount seven instances of Jesus performing miracles on the Sabbath – seven being a special number in the…
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Forgiveness Fridays: Choosing Forgiveness
What role can pride take in keeping us in a prison of unforgiveness? A friend who wished to remain unnamed shares vulnerably of how God encouraged her to escape this prison by choosing to forgive one close to her. When I was in my mid-teens, my dad left my mum for another woman. I was…
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Weekly Devotional: Choice Wine (9 in Sabbath and Rest series)
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” John 2:1–12 For a giggle (but sometimes a horrified gasp), check out these wedding failures to see a host of videos in which the unexpected happens,…
