christianity
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Lent 2026, The Plan
I’m already into Day 3 of Lent and I’m just now telling you my plan. And it’s funny that I’m writing this as if I have a bunch of readers. Hello out there, whoever you are! Ok, so I’ve broken up Lent into 6 weeks, and I’ve given each week a theme (because I couldn’t…
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40 Days!
40 days is a long time. 40 days is also significant. During the Flood, rain fell for 40 days and nights. Moses was on Mount Sinai with God for 40 days. The spies searched Canaan for 40 days. Goliath taunted Israel for 40 days before David killed him. Elijah traveled 40 days and nights to…
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Lent 2026 Ash Wednesday
I did not grow up in church, but my family claimed to be Baptist. My family was destroyed when my mother died at 43 years old. The glue, the light, the joy, or whatever you call the magic that holds a family together died with her. My older sister turned to the occult to try…
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One Day, Adam
I’m considering taking my book, “When God Got His Hands Dirty” off my Amazon shelf, dusting it off and making some changes. I wrote that book with my middle school students in mind and now I’d like to adjust it for a wider audience and maybe see if I can sell it through a more…
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Welcome to the Breakdown, the Shakedown
My daughter is a musician and artist. She’s the Worship Pastor at the church that she helped start. When she graduated high school she felt led to go to college and study to be a missionary. Having been following Christ since she was a child, then attending a Christian high school, it was almost inevitable…
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Three Devotions About Trusting God
I accomplished two things with this post. One, I needed to preach to myself and two, I needed to share a sample of my writing. I hope a third thing happens: I hope you are blessed. Peace, my friends. Three Devotionals on Trusting God 1. Trust God and Not Your Own Understanding “Trust in the…
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Trusting God Is Hard
We knew when Steave got laid off 10 months ago that this was something God was doing. We knew because it wasn’t something Steave did or didn’t do, the corporate entity made an indiscriminate choice. There was no one to blame or get mad at. We also knew God was up to something because we…
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Tending Our Gardens
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” Genesis 2:15 My father-in-law is a gardener, my husband learned to love gardening from him, and now our daughter loves to garden. All three of them possess patience, gentleness, and an acceptance of…
Jill Libramento 