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It's official...
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As of this past Tuesday, April 19, I am now a card-carrying licensed pastor in the Assemblies of God!! I am so dead-tired today (My family was here until 2:00 yesterday afternoon, after which I headed up to the church to do Wednesday night stuff...Now, I'm back at my FT day job. As my mom sai...
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He is Still a Father
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Does anyone know of a song whose chorus is as follows:
He is still a Father who loves His little girl And He will never hurt you, or destroy your world In His eyes you sparkle, like a pricless little pearl And He is still a Father who loves His little girl
We want to do this with the girls in our kids' and yo...
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Please pray for us
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Ladies,
I rarely tell you this so you know it's a serious thing. Please lift Larry & I up and our church in your prayers. It seems this week so many of our people are being attacked with sickness, disease (serious things), depression, discouragement, etc. etc. At first I tho...
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One more request this week (financial!)
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We just got our taxes back and we owe roughly $1,500.00!! DH received unemployment from August until March, and they didn't take anything out of those checks. Plus, he had to cash in his 401(k) when he lost his job to make sure that we could pay our bills.
Please pray that we would come up w...
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Please Pray...
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I'm about to bare my soul here, so please bear with me. Be warned: Long post ahead!
I don't even know where to start! First, our church's annual business meeting is coming up in a week and a half. We have an opening on our board. We have one guy who, at all costs, we NEED to keep f...
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Sermon Notes
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If any of you have any sermon notes on Martha or any interesting thoughts on her, let me know. I have a sunday school lesson on her in a few weeks.
Also, we are working on our house. We need to be in it the end of this month to keep from having two payments. We have lots to do ( I mean I am working day and night) Ke...
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Prayer Request
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Hello Ladies,
I have a prayer request. Today I had a project that I worked really hard on to blow up in my face. I am supposed to meet with my boss about it tomorrow morning (Tuesday) at 10:00 AM. Please pray that when I open my mouth Go will do the talking. Pray that I will have f...
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Wedding Ceremonies...
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The inevitable has happened: I will be doing a wedding ceremony for one of DH's cousins this summer.
Here's the deal: They are actually already married by the state. They have a baby that was born before they were married. So pretty much, it's a done deal. But they want a "real" ce...
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Do you ever discourage or redirect someone's dream
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Question for you ladies...........
We all have people in our churches, I'm sure, who have aspirations that you might really question. Sort of like the people on "American Idol" who are among the thousands who try out, but they really have no gifting with singing, but they are "convinced" th...
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"Life Changes" - how to deal with them on staff
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I have something to discuss here on the board and I would like to hear some feedback on... ** WARNING ** PREPARE FOR A DISSERTATION HERE...I have a lot on my mind!!! This is something I have never heard discussed in a book, etc. but through talking to several other past...
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Flip Side of Candidating... Your opinions...
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On the flip side of candidating and interviewing- what do you all think:
Before coming here, Craig and I candidated at a church in Chicago for an associate position at a very prestigious church with an awesome pastor. They flew us in, picked us up and we LITERALLY jumped headfirst into the i...
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Issue with weight
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I feel like that I can trust you all with big problem and I need your help. You see ,I am 60 lbs overweight.( I am 5-4 tall) I have got to get this stuff off of me. My baby girl is 6 mos old today. and I know that's part of what I am carrying but ladies I am carrying weight around that is 11 yrs old. (that's how old my f...
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Favorite healthy foods
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Since everyone was commenting yesterday on weight loss and fitness, I thought perhaps we could share some of our favorite healthy foods, for those who may not have discovered them...
I like all veggies, for me that pretty much goes without saying but I am talking grocery store items like - ice cream...
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Great weekend!!!
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Hey ladies, I wanted to tell you -- I had an incredible weekend! I know you will share in my joy.
Friday night was my first celebration rally as new sectional women's director for the Tampa area, A/G. I just took this position in January. Well, basically God tripled the att...
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Carnal Christians
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Ralinda mentioned in her post about carnal Christians. We deal with this a lot in our church and in our area. I taught on holiness last week during Bible study and I was amazed by the receptive response from the people who were there. This is definitely a testament to what God is doing in the church! Pra...
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