CHAPTER 3 In order to recognize where the enemy has captured our imaginations, we must understand our purpose and why we were created. For example, I can use a smartphone as a spade in my garden with a certain amount of effectiveness. But my violation of the phone’s purpose causes me and the phone to […]
(From Beyond the Siege Walking Away from the Enemy) CHAPTER 2 Joram, the son of Ahab and Jezebel, had a very frustrating reign as king over the Northern Kingdom of Israel in Samaria. Like his parents before him, Joram wanted to be the supreme ruler over Israel without a relationship with the God who formed,
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(From Beyond the Siege Walking Away from the Enemy) CHAPTER 1 As a child, I was my father’s favorite–the baby girl. With one older brother almost three years my senior and another in heaven, I was the grand finale (or so my parents thought; my little sister arrived 13 years later). It didn’t take long
(Excerpt from “Beyond the Siege”) INTRODUCTION I lay there, curled up in a ball on the floor of our bedroom closet–shoes beneath me, clothes dangling above–completely unaware of the physical discomfort. Despair entrenched me. I cried in agony; my whole body ached, and my imagination took center stage. Thoughts and images flashed through my mind
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I am just a month away from releasing the book I have written. It has been a long and arduous road for me. I began writing the book over four years ago, wanting to tell my story, and the story in Scripture that helped me break free. Edits, writing, re-writing, printing, correcting, re-formatting, and working
I was in high school when the Contemporary Christian group “4 Him” came out with an album called “Face the Nation”, and my local radio station played many of their songs. It quickly became a favorite album, but one song in particular arrested my attention. The writer of that song, Billy Simon, would later become
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It’s been almost four years in the making, but my very first book is almost ready for the printers!! I thought long and hard about what I wanted to write my first book about, and I decided I would write it on one of the biggest battles I have fought over my lifetime, and what
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The silence of the grave seemed deafening to the disciples. Everything they had seen Jesus do, every word He preached, every miracle He performed met their end on the cross. He didn’t come off of the cross with power and authority, he was carried off—a limp, bloodied, lifeless shell of the man he was. It
I stood with my hand over my heart in front of the flag waiting for the Soloist to begin her rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” It’s a nerve-racking feat to sing a song with such a range of high and low notes in front of a crowd of people, and I’m sure this moment
Tucked away in the story of the birth of Jesus are stories of other amazing men and women of faith. One such man was an older man named Simeon who spent his life in eager anticipation of seeing the Hope of Israel. Luke 2:22-35 22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the
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