Christine's Blog (2,626)

You have heard the question, and perhaps you have wrestled with it yourself: why does God allow suffering? For that matter, why does he allow the evil we see going on in the world?

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Greetings. 

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Arrived home after midnight last night after a great weekend trip to Boston.  God’s blessing was evident at each step.  Faces and snatches of conversations keep…

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We had a few minutes to catch up on the phone before she walked into work--the last thing mentioned was the war.…

What in the world is going on… EnD TimeS, what does it mean?

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These are questions that I have been asked in the last few…

Chaos aBouNds.

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Has it occurred to you that we are a people who is getting used to swimming in a sea of…

Challenging Your Mind Makes You Smarter!  

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Do you take on things that challenge your mind?¹ Do you endeavor to learn new things…

Driven, focused people inspire me--

especially when they are courageous,

godly and living out their God-given purpose.

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Hello! Of all the things you could choose to read or devote your attention, one stands alone - the Bible. In these Morning Briefings, we…

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A couple years ago, I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, exhausted from trying to scale a personal mountain. All alone with a little time on my hands, I went to Nordstrom to buy a new lipstick--a little embarrassing to write, but true just the…

God has his ways and they are oft mysterious in the present.

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->What’s the reason Jesus Christ stepped directly into Paul’s path, then led him into darkness, then troubles,…

Loving a Terrorist?  An Admission.

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Regularly, I get Facebook requests from folks with strange names—strange to me, that is.  Unsure of the intent of my would be ‘friend’, I weigh each one before…

The circle widens and the plot thickens ~ 

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Greetings, Friends!

It has been quite a week as I moved residences (locally) in Wake Forest, North Carolina.…

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Yes, I do. I really do... I wanna go where everybody knows my name. Having moved away from that place in Southern California, I am dipping my toe into a new place where I want to belong--a…

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Sometimes we just need to get over ourselves. 

Today we get a front row seat of one who understands he has been forgiven of much, who gets over himself, over his shame and gets back in the…

The text came at the end of a harried day. 'Hey, can you talk?' I happened to see her message right when it came across my phone.

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I find people's last words riveting

--especially when they know they will soon be gone.

For that reason, Jesus' last words are so very valuable to us.

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Our setting: the…

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It was as if I had been studying, pondering, deliberating and writing just for him when out of the blue the young man said to me, ‘Hey, so I have some questions--you know about Christianity. I mean, come on—you really think…

A Prayer for you to Pray

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Friend,

Sometimes you are tired...

Sometimes you just grow weary in your own mind… you want to pray, but the words do not seem to come.  Or perhaps…