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Category Archive for '2025'

advent week 1 – hope

Posted in 2025, Advent, Faith, Hope on Nov 30th, 2025

The door is on the latch tonight,
The hearth-fire is aglow,
I seem to hear soft passing feet —
The Christchild in the snow.
My heart is open wide tonight
For stranger, kith or kin;
I would not bar a single door
Where love might enter in.
Author Unknown
Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would come.
A heavy darkness had settled upon the world, [...]

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a memoir

Posted in 2025, Africa, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Hope, Life, Transition, Trust, missions on Nov 6th, 2025

Hot and dry. A thick orangey-red haze coated the landscape as I stepped out of the Lilongwe International Airport. I pushed the heavy cart loaded with maybe three or four suitcases and a large trunk wrapped with luggage straps to keep them from busting open. Brooklyn and Jackson, my siblings, pushed their own carts piled [...]

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i get knocked down

Posted in 2025, Faith, Ministry, Truth on Oct 30th, 2025

Joel and I recently read the Chronicles of Narnia series with Jasper at bedtime. Last night we finished book number five: The Horse and His Boy. I am going to be honest, after The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the other books in this series have been very difficult for me to get through. [...]

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the rising concern regarding the Holocaust

Posted in 2025, Holocaust, Truth on Oct 13th, 2025

(Paper written and permission to post by Brooklyn Slater, 2023)
When opening a school textbook, thousands of words pour out and culminate into various stories and events. Sentences connect through the organization of paragraphs, which, in the end, finish as papers, essays, and records. However, not everything read is accurate, and many are eager to argue [...]

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