Happy 2008! We are entering into the time of year for New Year’s goals and resolutions. If you are like me you have the thoughts like “Oh great, more goals I can make that I know I will never live up to.” Despite those feelings we still make goals, and when we break the goals, [...]
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Debt-Proof Living: The Complete Guide to Living Financially Free (DPL Press, 2005) By Mary Hunt Every time I check my mail, I get at least half a dozen credit card offers. Buy now, pay later, right? Do you ever go to Target or shop E-Bay and buy products that are just irresistible, but you don’t [...]
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We have a special guest with us this month at CWO: Allison Bottke! Allison is an inspirational writer, speaker, and novelist who shares her story of triumph over tragedy to encourage others to embrace the life-transforming power of God. She’s the founder of the God Allows U-Turns series, which now includes 21 books, and this [...]
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Inconceivable: Finding Peace in the Midst of Infertility by Shannon Woodward (Life Journey 2006) As a pastor’s wife, Shannon Woodward was used to holding babies. Yet her doctor’s diagnosis of infertility sent her on a journey she never planned to take. Her beautiful book explores eighteen years of frustration, pain, anger, and eventually healing. She [...]
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The Mom I Want to Be: Rising Above Your Past to Give Your Kids a Great Future, by T. Suzanne Eller (Harvest House 2006) Author and mom of three, T. Suzanne Eller, takes readers on a journey exploring her painful past as the daughter of a single mom who survived abuse and years of depression. [...]
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A Carol for Christmas By Robin Lee Hatcher (Zondervan 2006) It’s time to curl up by the fire with a cup of cocoa and enjoy some heart-warming romance. You’ll love A Carol for Christmas, written by best-selling author Robin Lee Hatcher (her 50th book!). This beautiful novella can be read in one quiet evening, taking [...]
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Do you ever feel like you are in a season when the winds and rains of trouble and difficulty are hitting you from all sides? Times where it seems that every time the winds die down, you find that it is not the end, but only the eye of the storm? Stormy seasons will come. But we have a treasure, a great and mighty treasure ~ the all-surpassing power of God. During difficult seasons, this power gives us the ability to say, “I am not crushed; I am not in despair; I am not abandoned or destroyed!”
Thank you my sweet Jesus! You are my treasure. May your life be revealed in me!
Grateful even in storms,
Nicole
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