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From pounding cabbage to healing focus
Today, I crushed juniper berries, shredded three huge cabbages, tossed the shreds with salt and juniper berries, squeezed the water out of the cabbage, dumped bowls of mixture into the fermenting crock and pounded until more water appeared. Then, I covered the mixture with a cabbage leaf and pressed weights onto the leaf. Lid on,…
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Are you expecting healing from God?
Beautiful Gate in Jerusalem Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful,…
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43 Love-Kissed Years
From the hippies to the colonels, From the Midwest to the Pacific Islands, From the East Coast to the West Coast, From Italy to California, From military life to academic life, From sickness to health, From travelers to tour guides, From side-by-side to hand-in-hand. Forty-three years tasting life. From traipsing across the globe to home,…
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God healed me … I went kite flying!
Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not be tired, They will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31 On January 1, 2011, almost six weeks after the Lord miraculously healed me of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, I…
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God’s lovingkindness brings peace
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. John 14:27 Jesus gives us peace with God, a peace that is not dependent on our actions or others’ actions. This peace was…
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What emotion is filling you this Christmas?
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from…
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Light of the World … the Christmas Gift
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:5 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 One day, Jesus stepped out of eternity into time to…
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God gave Himself … What will you give?
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23 Our glorious God has bestowed great and precious promises and blessings upon His followers. One awesome gift: God gave Himself, so that men and women would be able…
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Love Eternal gives life eternal … Christmas as a verb
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Glory, grace, and truth … we wondered. Love Eternal beckoned us, “Follow Me.” His body broken; His blood shed … our debt He paid. Death, He conquered; Life Eternal He gave. All who call on His name are saved. May the full meaning of Christmas capture your…
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Lift your heart towards Jesus for warmth, nourishment, healing
Most plants and trees lift their faces towards heaven. They breathe in the warmth and nourishment of the sun. The Trees of Life and Knowledge of Good and Evil open the Word of God … separation from God follows. The Tree of Life closes the Word of God … nourishment and healing unite God and…