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    Addiction

    Addiction: You Can Overcome

    I often wonder what it would have been like these past two years had my brother still been alive. Yes, my family was very supportive during my battle with sickness, but what would he have done? What would he have said to encourage me? So many days I felt like he was the one I needed to comfort me. All I wished was that I could go back to his letters and find the words that would help me through everything. But he’s gone. He was still needed here, but he’s gone. I can no longer help him. But I can help others who are still fighting this battle. If…

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    Spirit

    Read His Word

    Have you read your Bible today? Are you patting yourself on the back because you got your “verse of the day” in? No, I mean, have you delved into the Word today? We speak to God all the time, and the Bible is one of His best ways of speaking back to us. The Bible is the Word of God. Take a second to really grasp that fact that God Himself breathed these specific words into existence, and they still stand today. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and His Word applies just as much now as it did a hundred years ago as it did at the…

  • woman sitting in dark old empty church
    Spirit

    Run to the House

    “Ugh, what is the pastor going to say? What is everyone going to think? What if they call us out in front of everyone?” These were some of the thoughts that ran through mine and my husband’s heads as we made the long drive to church. Our stomachs turned with nervousness. Our hearts were racing. I had grown up in church. Why did I feel this way? It was February when God told me to go back to church. Having one reason or excuse after the other, I was lucky if I even watched it online. God had been patient with me, but by the time June came along, He…