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Am I So Afraid of Losing My Life That I Am Willing to Stop Living It? Seven Verses of Comfort as Our World Spins Violent Again

November 7, 2017 by Loree

What is happening to us? Land of the free, home of the brave. A country of great pride and privilege. Yet a land fraught with violence. The shocking statistic, we average a mass shooting (four or [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, prayer Tagged: children, evil, fear, John 14:27, John 16:33, Mass shooting, murder, Proverbs 3:6, Psalm 23:4, Psalm 27:1, Psalm 46:1, Psalm 9:9, Satan, Sutherland Springs, Texas, trust, victims, why?

How To Tap Into the Transformative Power of Love: Living The Jesus Creed

September 30, 2017 by Loree

Nervous anticipation whistled through the crowd. “Would he talk over our heads? Would we be engaged or flat bored stiff?” As it turned out, we hung on the every word of renowned scholar, Dr. Scot [Read more...]

Posted in: Ministry, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Bruce, Carl, dissension, envy, God's timing, hate, heart, heaven, homeless, Jesus Creed, love, Mark 12:29, murder, needy, Perfect, pretend, Scot McNight, treachery, War, who is our neighbor

3 Bold Scriptures to Help Sift Through the Whys?? of Life

September 17, 2017 by Loree

My son lives in Malibu. I know, tough right? I sent him to college in California knowing in my mother’s heart I’d never get him back. But no matter how hard I hold on to what I know, life marches [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anchor, birds, bombs, domestic dispute, doubt, eye of the storm, fires, forsake, heat, heatwave, Hebrews 13:10, hope, hurricane, Malibu, missiles, murder, numbered days, peace, Philippians 4:7, promises, Psalm 107:29, rain, San Francisco, September, Septembergeddon, son, storm, terror, weather, why?, Zerohedge.com

5 Things We Dare Not Forget When the World Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore

June 11, 2017 by Loree

As the world reels and groans And terror splatters red, The innocents perish Father’s mourn Mothers weep Brothers cry raw for their lost. Will the madness never end? And the ferris wheel [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Poetry, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: apathy, broken world, Faith, hate, John 16:33, London, murder, music, Paris, terrorism, victory

How to Lean in When You Feel Weary From Fighting: Herodium, Masada (Israel #14)

May 20, 2017 by Loree

Greed, vengeance, murder, suicide, Enough to fill an epic Hollywood style drama. Tragic sites, we headed for two more of Herod the Great’s building marvels. We snaked out of Jerusalem toward the [Read more...]

Posted in: Israel Trip, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: AD 70, armor of God, Battle, busted world, Captain America, Dr Ehud Netzer, Eleazar, Ephesians 6:10-13, greed, Herod the Great, Herodium, hide, Jerusalem, Josephus, lean in, Masada, murder, palace-fortress, Satan, storm, suicide, the Avengers, tragedy, troubles

What to Remember In the Face of the World’s Mass Insanity

July 10, 2016 by Loree

What is wrong with us? Where is the goodness And the patient grace And the love of our fellowman? Bullies degrade Racists divide Murderers in the name of vengeance, Slaughterers for a God I [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Poetry, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: blood, bullies, children, evil, fathers, fear, goodness, grace, grief, mothers, murder, praise, Psalm 68:19, racists, refuge, shelter, storm, thankful, victory, widows

Beauty that Deceives: Under the Banyon Tree (Rwanda #12)

June 6, 2015 by Loree

We all have preconceived ideas. We may even think we would recognize one or at least sense that is something off. This one happens to be beautiful, green, and leafy But is a killer just the [Read more...]

Posted in: Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: Banyan, evil, Kadiri India, killer, murder, Proverbs 4:21, Rwanda

Crazy Beautiful Forgiveness

January 27, 2014 by Loree

    The sixteen year old careened like a train out of control on the track to desolation. Loud music pulsating in the background, their argument escalated in crimson rage until the [Read more...]

Posted in: Forgiveness, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anger, bitterness, forgiveness, justice, Love your neighbor, Mary Johnson, Matthew 5:46, miracle, murder, Oshea, retaliation, revenge, unnatural

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Learn how to rewrite your messy stories one grace at a time. In these 52 devotionals, we share stories of hilarity and hardship to uncover how God transforms our mayhem and invites us to live free.
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