Has Jesus Won Your Heart?

I love songs that talk about the love of Jesus. I didn’t used to. Never really understood it. And I certainly couldn’t relate to those emotional women who waxed poetic about Jesus. What was up with that? You see, when I was very young, a cult tried to make me hate and fear Jesus. I…

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Lonely in a Good Marriage

IF ONLY . . . now those are two pretty worthless words: If only I my husband was Godly; If only he was kinder; If only we had more in common; If only I was in a truly good marriage, I wouldn’t get lonely. Sorry. That just isn’t true. Loneliness can occur in the best…

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Misunderstanding of “Laying Down Your Soul”

I can hear you asking, “If we keep preferring one another, how do we keep from going around in circles with no one making a decision?” That’s so frustrating! And it loses the concept of allowing God to give us His desires. If we know, surely and deeply, that He is operating in our lives,…

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Love is Laying Down Your Soul

Laying down your soul for someone else sounds like an impossible task, doesn’t it? It sounds like a recipe for pain and further emotional damage. The thing is, you can’t truly lay down your soul for another until you lay it down for yourself.

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Love Fights Loneliness

How do we defer our desires? Think about this: are your desires loving? Are your desires holy? Could they be destructive to anyone else? Could they eventually be destructive to you? Psalm 37:4 tells us to delight in the Lord and He will give us the desires of our heart. Have you let Him provide…

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Unloved and Lonely

During my freshman year of college, I had a wonderful suite-mate who was a missionary kid. This was her second year of college in the States; the rest of her education had been in boarding schools. I’ll call her Susie.

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