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And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(Romans 8:28 NIV)
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Adventure!

"Woo-Hoo! Let's Do This Thing!"

Adventure... -- Risk-taking, danger, a bold and wild and exciting...

 

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue
(Proverbs 31:26)


I'll never forget this extremely cool guy I was into when I was nineteen and stationed in Germany. What's-His-Name (I can't actually remember his name) was a...

 

Imagine you are a seven-and-a half-year-old named Eleanor. You have brown, mid-length hair with matching brown eyes. Your grandmother has said more than once that you have a gentle and intelligent face. She likes the way you are mindful of others.

You're tall...

 

It's easy to throw up cotton candy prayers that lack substance in traffic, in the shower, or as we run out the door to work. It's easy to stay on the safe side of petition by asking God for things that our hearts don't truly desire. Why? Because having a shallow...

 

Mindless destruction irritates me.

Which was all well and good until...

Enter Boy.

Boy was born with tendencies that could be written into quotes such as:

• If you build it tall enough, it will fall.
• If you play with it long enough, it will...

 

It had been a hot, difficult week of work for the teens on the mission trip. The other sponsors and I were just as eager as the teens for a fun day -- an excursion to a water park in a nearby coastal town. The park wasn't large, but was a well-planned water...

 

Even when the rain falls,
Even when the flood starts rising,
Even when the storm comes,
I am washed by the water!

(by Need to Breathe, "Washed by the Water")
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Over the last several months I have become even more aware of...

 

Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working"
(John 5:17)
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"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work"
(John 4:34)
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I listened as a gifted speaker* told...

 

I love being a writer, but it always leads to one fateful question: "What are you writing?"

I used to be able to answer that. I could give you the one sentence summary of my book or a chapter by chapter synopsis. But, that was before my kids came along. The time...

 

Any husband who has told his pregnant wife -- especially while she is in childbirth -- "I know how you feel!" knows within seconds how dangerously wrong he was to say it.

Yet the apostle Paul, a man who was single, dares to communicate his deep love for the new...