Taking a Risk

And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she...

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Thin Again? Again?

Judy Halliday asked me something a month or two ago that has stuck with me. I guess it has been "fermenting" in my mind and heart.She knows that the book Thin Again was used powerfully in my life....

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Be Changed!

Gratitude--expressing it--is so life-changing...not just in the long haul, but giving gratitude to God, sometimes even just with an act of my will--can even change my (and ME) NOW!!!So, given I have...

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Stay Out of Those Trash Dumpsters!

I share the following with the permission of a dear friend of mine. She told me this story in email and I thought it too perfect an illustration NOT to share with you. I hope it encourages you!Stay...

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God Doesn’t Count!

There is a play on words going on in the title of this post. "God doesn't count." I don't mean "God doesn't matter," because of course He does! He is EVERYTHING that matters!What I DO mean is, He...

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Remembering Captivity

I wonder...how do I--how do you--remember captivity? In the bible study workbook No Other Gods, by Kelly Minter, I was reminded yesterday morning that it is ever so easy to remember the past (a...

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Press On!

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for...

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Me? Godless?

It hit me this morning.I am living, for all practical purposes, as if I am godless.How is this possible?The past week or so, I have had difficulty processing Breezy's diagnosis, I guess. For some...

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Photos of the Journey

I get asked about photos a lot...so thought I would put together a slide show that sort of shows a jet trip tour through my weight ups and downs since Fall of 2002. I consider the photo from Summer...

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