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How to Pray When Your Heart is Breaking
The saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. This is true in many areas, but especially in parenting. We can all look back and see things we wish

Terri Brown
Jun 24, 20246 min read
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How to Surrender Our Lives to God
But what about surrendering our will to God and to his plans? Do we willingly submit and lay down our own plans to yield to Him?

Dawn Ward
Jun 3, 20247 min read
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4 Powerful Ways to Encounter God
There are many ways to encounter God when we have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Mary Rooney Armand
Mar 11, 20245 min read
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A Prayer When You’re Finding It Hard to Pray
I inhale and whisper, God. Please Help me—four words I say often. A mentor calls them breath prayers.

Lea Turner
Feb 23, 20245 min read
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How to Praise God with All Your Heart
How do we praise the Lord with our whole heart? How do we worship Him with our very being, our soul, our will, our mind, and our emotions?

Dawn Ward
Feb 18, 20245 min read
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Longing For Home-Awaiting His Return
It’s easy to want to give up. To throw in the towel. We have all said at one point or another, “I just want to go home and be with the Lord.

Dawn Ward
Jan 14, 20244 min read
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How to Manage Expectations When the Holidays are Hard
Learning how to manage our expectations during the holiday season means we will come to accept that things may not always be going our way.

Dawn Ward
Dec 18, 20238 min read
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The Futility of Life Apart From God
Solomon was forced to come to terms with a difficult question: Where is God in all this pleasure and can He be included in giving his life m

Annie Weber
Nov 2, 20232 min read
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Do You Need a Mindset Makeover?
"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." Isaiah 26:3 CSB Do you struggle habitually with...

Dawn Ward
Mar 31, 20238 min read
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How to Live Beyond Your Limitations
What if we could see the “Limit-less” rather than our own limitations? Let's see our circumstances as hope-filled opportunities.

Dawn Ward
Oct 1, 20224 min read
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How to Practice Self-Care When You’re Child Is Addicted
This month’s guest blog is written by Barb Winters, a mother whose son struggled with a porn addiction. For anyone with an addicted loved...

Barb Winters
Mar 1, 20225 min read
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How to Pray When You're Falling Apart
“He wounds, but his hands make whole.” Job 5:18 (NKJV) “Lord, I don’t know how to pray. I don’t know what to ask for.” Overwhelming...

Dawn Ward
Feb 5, 20223 min read
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Book Review: Shift by Abby McDonald
Book Review - Shift:Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my...

Dawn Ward
Feb 20, 20215 min read
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Book Review - Half the Battle, Healing Your Hidden Hurts
Book Review on Half the Battle Once in a rare while, a book crosses my path that I can say is truly life changing. Half the Battle by Dr....

Dawn Ward
Dec 12, 20205 min read
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The Ripple Effect of Living with Addiction
"He leads me beside the still waters." Psalms 23:2 "A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expand across the water when an...

Dawn Ward
Aug 13, 20194 min read
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A Spacious Place - Living Beyond Limiting Faith
“When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place.” Psalm 118:5 NIV The Need to Breathe ”I can’t breathe! Get...

Dawn Ward
Jul 18, 20194 min read
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She Can Laugh At Days To Come
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." Proverbs 31:25 NIV Happy Fourth of July! Another holiday...

Dawn Ward
Jul 3, 20194 min read
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Unfailing Strength
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at a proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 Worn Out Life...

Dawn Ward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
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A Deeper Grief
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a...

Dawn Ward
Jan 25, 20193 min read
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Why I Finally Decided To Love Myself
"For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of his...

Dawn Ward
Sep 13, 20185 min read
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