Author: Karen S. Roberts
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Tending the Garden of Your Heart: Lessons from My Roses
What a blessing it was when I opened my email from Zeeva Usman. She has blessed us with a beautiful meditation, “Tending the Garden of Your Heart: Lessons from My Roses.” May you bask in God’s wisdom He reveals in His creation. “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of…
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A First Step to Spiritual and Mental Health
When I asked my husband, Keith, what he thought I needed to focus on for a Koinonia devotion, he quickly prompted me to focus on spiritual and mental health. He knows it will have a positive effect on our husbands and others. I asked myself what that looked like, prayed, and searched the Scriptures. I…
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Celebrating Love … A Valentine’s Day Reflection
Each day with my Beloved husband of 55 years brings smiles and increasing love. Our loving Father has filled the earth with reminders of His love for His sons and daughters. He continues to shower His people with blessing upon blessing. Today, may we find ourselves celebrating love … a Valentine’s Day reflection that can…
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Truth Prevails … False Fails
Through the knowledge of God and following the way of God’s truth, Christians escape the world’s corruption. False prophets and teachers try to deceive us and attempt to persuade us to follow their destructive ways rather than God’s purifying ways. But God’s truth prevails … false fails. Truly knowing God and the depth of His…
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No Greater Offer: An Invitation to Eternal Life
Aleah Lundy recently shared with Calvary Chapel Beaumont ‘s Equip Class that Jesus offers the greatest path to walk in life in her beautiful message, No Greater Offer: An Invitation to Eternal Life. She reminds us that God’s love is infinite in nature, and incomprehensible to us mere mortals, and He has it ALL FOR…
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Keeping Our Focus on Jesus
Storms, suffering, trials, and everyday distractions pull at us from every direction. Keeping our focus on Jesus fills our minds with “Jesus truths.”
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Together As One … 55 Years of Love
With each year that we have walked this earth together, we have grown closer and deeper in love with each other. The love we knew when we were first married was nothing compared to the love we now have. With the Lord by our side, our love has united us in joy, filled us with…
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Remembering 2025 and Giving Thanks
New year … new beginnings … new hopes … new opportunities. The Creator of the Universe loves you and me so much that He pours out His beauty, mercy, love, and goodness upon all who will receive Him as their LORD. I’m remembering 2025 and giving thanks for God’s abundant blessings, for His steadfast love…
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The Hope of the World … A Merry Christmas!
Christmas … a celebration of the Son of God shedding His glory that He enjoyed with the Father and the Holy Spirit, to miraculously enter the womb of a virgin. The angels heralded this Baby born in all humility. Shepherds visited Him. Wise men travelled miles to bring Him rich gifts. The Hope of the…
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A Season of Gifts … The Most Valuable Gift
We’re in a season of gifts. Have you stopped to ask yourself what the most valuable gift of the season is? The most expensive? The most popular of the year? The easiest: gift cards, so our friends and loved ones can buy what they want? How long will the gifts we give last? Even the…