February 2012
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Health Update - Trust
Last time I left you with the hope of an answer, but the test results we were waiting on came back looking normal.
The only consensus seems to be that I had something go on at the beginning of all of this that caused some severe inflammation and that’s causing the continuing pain (no one is even 100% about that).
I’m continuing to see the chiropractor, and that seems to be helping...
January 2012
6 posts
mikeclevenger:
The key to prayer, is simply praying.
A.W. Tozer
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Health Update - Hello, Seattle
I made it safely to my home state of Washington. I can safely say, I didn’t realize how much of a cold weather wimp I had become until I got here. I had a moment the other day where I wanted to bear hug the inventor of the humidifier & the person who came up with the idea to put a heating element in a toilet seat (GENIUS)!
On a serious note, I’ve definitely battled with how much...
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“I’ve never talked to anyone in ministry who has failed morally who has...”
– Wayne Cordeiro
“The fiery furnaces are there by God’s direct permission. It is misleading to...”
– Oswald Chambers
The Love of God—The Message of Invincible Consolation, 674 R
“Some things are so important to God that they are worth interrupting the...”
– Charles Stanley
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Health Update - Step by Step
Friends :)
I’m fully recovered from surgery, but unfortunately, the pain I had before surgery seems to have stuck around. The good news is, we were able to rule a lot out because my doctor was able to look around at my appendix and all the other organs in there that had the potential to be acting crazy. So besides the fancy photo shoot my organs got, that was the extent of what the surgery...
December 2011
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Health Update - Post Op
Pain medications do funny things to my head, so I won’t share with you the countless cheesy jokes & songs I’ve made up about the new holes in my body that are floating around up in my brain this morning….You’re quite welcome :)
Surgery went well yesterday, but it was quite the whirlwind of a day. After a 10am arrival, we found ourselves still in the waiting room at...
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Health Update - Surgery
As many of you already know, I’ve been battling some health issues for almost 2 1/2 months. I’ve been dealing with pain in my abdomen that no one seems to fully be able to explain. At this point, I’ve had to take a leave of absence from work.
To make a very long story short, after trips to multiple doctors, blood tests that all seem to come back normal, multiple...
November 2011
3 posts
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Quick Health Update
Friends, I so appreciate your prayers for my health. Figured I’d update you. I apologize it’s taken so long.In the last 7 weeks, I’ve had a few cysts that ruptured on my ovaries, on top of fighting a dairy & gluten allergy and fighting an infection that developed.
At this point, for every few good days I have, I have just as many bad days. I have a pain in my abdomen that...
“…I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my...”
– 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (MSG)
“But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in...”
– Psalm 59:16-17
October 2011
4 posts
Jake Dudley: arrival. →
arrival.
24.
The age where most of the world thinks you should have arrived…
whatever that’s supposed to mean.
Arrival? There’s one thing I know, if “arrival” does, in fact, exist, then I’m not there. And if I’m honest, I’m not sure I ever want to be there.
We never arrive. We simply struggle.
And when we do “arrive,” we’ve simply given up.
Arrival is an excuse to stay where we...
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“Jesus, I need to give myself up. I’m not strong enough to love you and walk...”
– Francis Chan (via littlethingsaboutgod)
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September 2011
8 posts
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“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises...”
– Phil 4:6-7 (MSG)
I am the branches →
allysarchastity:
“Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” [Psalm 100v3]
Thank You that in the moments of doubt, You are my assurance. In moments of chaos, you are my peace. In moments of confusion, You are my clarity. In moments when I don’t know what to pray, Your Holy Spirit is interceding on my behalf....
“On the day I called, You answered me, and the hope in my soul increased.”
– hillsong live
“God has called you, right where you are now, for such a time as this.
To...”
– -witheverything
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“Optimism is psychological; hope is theological. Optimism focuses on what you...”
– Rick Warren
Psalm 139:13
“You knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13(NIV)
-witheverything:
“Knitted together” is how the psalmist described the process of God making man. Not manufactured or mass-produced, but knitted. Each thread of personality tenderly intertwined. Each string of temperament deliberately selected …
The Creator, the master weaver, threading together the soul.
Each one different. No...
August 2011
11 posts
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The Presence of God… →
Check out the blog I wrote for Ocean’s Edge School.
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“…then I recall all you have done, O Lord;
I remember your wonderful deeds...”
– Psalm 77:11-15
"The JOSEPH COMPANY" →
josepheccles:
“The JOSEPH COMPANY” > -by David Wilkerson. > > Let me show you the Joseph Company—a body of last-day believers > wholly given to the Lord. They commune with God daily and are led > by the Spirit in every detail of their lives. At this moment they are > coming out of great trials to enter a…
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“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go...”
– Francis Chan, Forgotten God (via -witheverything)
July 2011
10 posts
Admirer vs. Follower →
mikeclevenger:
It was a typical day. Get up early, stumble out of bed to my Keurig to brew a fresh cup of coffee (or 3). Go to work, hang out with friends, possible bible study, hang out with friends again, and then eventually go to bed. Of course, social networking making its way through all of those things somehow.
But tonight at CRU (Campus Crusade) I was shook. I’ll be honest, I was...
“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork...”
– - A.W. Tozer
(via patrickmichaelchin)
“Worship is the fuel our hearts need to allow our lives to be poured out in...”
– Darlene Zschech (via -witheverything)
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"…I want to sing right to You"
He INHABITS our praises.
lives in them. sits upon them. dwells in them.
God of Heaven, You are here with us.
He is HERE with us.
May that amazing truth completely affect how we worship, how we sing, how we play, how we pray, how we speak…
Spotify →
It’s completely changing how I listen to music
Use this link to get an invite faster - http://www.spotify.com/us/amanda/
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: What I have scribbled in the front of my... →
jesuslovesdesign:
Sin may, and will, touch you, discourage you, and distract you, but it cannot condemn you. Christ is in your, and your are in Him, and “there is no condemnation for those who belong to Jesus Christ.” (Romans 8:1)
I’ve been listening to Elevation’s sermon series on Romans 8 lately. They…
June 2011
3 posts
10 Reasons People Attend Church
“Saddleback Church surveyed over 8,000 people who were finishing the required membership class and asked them why they were joining the church. Here’s #2 on their list of things that were most important to them:
#2 – Worship Worship is the second most important thing people think about when they consider joining a church. This is far more than music – the atmosphere of your church is...