Author: torimatlock
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What Do You Want For Christmas?
By: Caitlin York It is without question that every December, I am asked what I want for Christmas. As the year comes to a close, we all look forward to the excitement of family time, sharing gifts with one another, and making memories. It is so easy to get wrapped…
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Seeing Our Godly Mentor
By: Jenna Altom I remember the days! The day that pimple popped up on my face to ruin all of the special pictures. The day the boy I thought might be the one broke my heart. The day I was betrayed by one of my best friends. The stress of…
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Seasons
By: Pam Jones Ecclesiastes 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the nights longer and the leaves are falling. Here in southwest Pennsylvania, we experience all four seasons and…
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Contentment is a Choice
By: Autumn Elliott Shuck These days, social media is at the center of most of our lives. It is easy to get sucked into being fascinated and even obsessed with what influencers and our peers post online. The danger of this is that it can lead us to wish we…
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Choose Contentment
By: Dawn Elliott We live in a society of discontentment. Adults are always looking for a better job, more pay, a better car, a nicer house, and even more recognition. Our children want more games, more toys, better sports equipment, the best position in sports, and better clothes. Our society…
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What’s A Girl To Do?
By: Rachel Bryant, RN What is one of your most prized possessions? Maybe your phone? Your gaming system? Your favorite sweater that looks so cute on you? If you have something that is important to you, you take care of it, don’t you? Well, in that same thought, YOU are…
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Identity in Christ
By: Rachel Munsey Jackson When I was born, my parents knew within hours that I was very ill. My kidneys were covered with cysts and I was in kidney failure at birth! Fast forward seven years and I could barely walk through the grocery store. Thankfully, I wasn’t really aware…
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Lesson Learned
By: Mitzi Munsey Satterfield Learning that your precious baby was born with a serious illness is a difficult challenge for any parent. Rachel was our third child. She was a beautiful baby, but our celebration soon became solemn and sad. Rachel was born with a very rare chronic illness that…
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He is Able
By: Catherine Blades How often do I limit God? As I wrote this question down, the words seemed to scream at me. Our God is almighty. He is awesome and powerful. I know this; yet, I choose to make Him powerless. I wrote that question down after I read this…
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Big Lessons for Small Choices
By: Diana Bryant One of my favorite Sunday School classes ever was a group of tenth through twelfth grade girls several years ago. We studied scripture, but we also spent quite a bit of time applying scriptural principles to their everyday life situations. We discussed, analyzed, and looked for principles…
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