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Archive for June, 2008

• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 25 of 42)

  I like reading other women’s blogs. Many of them I don’t know personally, but I feel like I do know them in the Lord. They share their lives and faith, and I learn so much from them.

  I was reading …
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• Faith Challenges

  Here is a reminder of our faith challenges for each week.

  Remember, small focused changes that occur daily, when combined with faith, can result in some wild things from God. If you have gotten off schedule, just shrug it off …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 24 of 42)

  Okay… so after another missed day, all I can do is share that this summer faith thing is challenging. It doesn’t seem too hard to have to post a blog daily, but yet I’m only batting .500 on day 4. …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 22 of 42)

  So I’m already off to a “rough” start with my faith challenge. Yesterday was my first assigned day to blog, and I forgot. Oops. But that’s the great thing about something like a faith challenge. It’s designed to last over …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 20 of 42)

  Now fear is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

  When I am afraid of something (spiders, snakes, the dark, flying, public speaking), I just know that I’ll get hurt or humiliated. …
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• Invest, Invite, Inspire… Internationally

  As a people who are looking to grow in our faith, here is one opportunity to do that globally, but on a local scale. There are five special students coming to Blacksburg from Haiti June 20th who will be here …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 19 of 42)

  The disciples said (frequently), “Increase our faith!” And Jesus answered, “If your faith were the size of a mustard seed, you could move this mountain.” Mustard seeds are tiny and round and roll around in your hand; mountains, in comparison, …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 18 of 42)

  Jesus said, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” (Lk 17:6) and “Have faith in God. I tell …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 17 of 42)

  I like to be at least good at something before I do it in front of other people. I don’t like looking silly or having to be corrected, and this has often stopped me from starting something new. But when …
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• Summer Faith Challenge (Day 15 of 42)

  Today is the first day of sink or swim practice for my girls. We’ve paid a swim teacher an incredible amount of money to teach our lilly-livered-land-loving daughters how to swim. The teacher knows what she’s doing and is excellent …
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