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Got peace? Join me for the next six weeks as we cultivate a new way of living in 2019…the way of interior peace. We begin today and will post the new week's pathway every Sunday. I pray this will start you on a journey that will last a lifetime. Overall Goal: May the peace of Christ reign in your hearts (Col 3:15). The goal is to help you cultivate and maintain a life of interior peace amidst the different seasons of your spiritual journey with God. We’ll do this by first lea

See this beautiful door atop the Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher on the Something Greater Holy Land Pilgrimage! ONLY 19 days left to sign up!* “Should I do this? Go here? Buy this? Date this person?” How do you make the decisions in your life both great and small? With the New Year will come fresh opportunities. God wants for us to live the best life we can possibly live while on planet earth. He made us to share in His blessed life. And since He designed us and knows all things f

Read this and smile! 3 Keys to Unlock Christmas Joy: 1. Don’t worry! God’s got plans! He thinks years ahead of you! God chose a young, beautiful girl to be the Mother of His Divine Son. The Bible says the angel tells Mary* that though she is a virgin she will be “overshadowed” by God’s Spirit in order to give birth--this was not a forceful "take-over” but a gentle and powerful movement of the Spirit because of Mary's Yes. Amazingly, this is the same language used for the way

“Man Plans, and God Laughs!”* The first time I heard this I thought, "Yipes!" But consider this… “In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem**, because he was of the house and family of David,

Will the real Santa Claus please stand up!? We see pictures of him at the North Pole employing elves that not only make toys but are often used as spies. He slides down chimneys, wears a red suit and rides in a sleigh…or does he? Did you know that the historic Saint Nicholas was a Bishop in Greece?* He gave away all of his wealth, radically helped the poor and needy, fiercely protected children and suffered greatly for his faith? I pray that as you read his amazing story, you