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Devotional Making Disciples

Abiding with little and much

Abiding in Christ. It’s how we live and grow as believers. How we stay rooted. And fruitful.

Woman studying the Bible
My parents have taught me by example how to abide in Christ through prayer and the Word. In little and in much.

But what happens when the props are gone? No church down the street or across town. No familiar worship gathering in the heart language.  

What happens when you don’t have a list of small group Bible studies to choose from. No Bible study workbooks for purchase. 

And the internet is unreliable. Spotty. Occasional. 

Perhaps you’ve been there. Or you are there.

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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Door of No Return

In 2018 we travel across the Atlantic to spend a week with our daughter in Dakar, Senegal. Conversations and laughter mark our visit. Along with bright sun. Cool ocean breezes. Blue sky.  

And a Door of No Return. 

Door of No Return, House of Slaves, Goree Island, Senegal
The Door of No Return on Goree Island.
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Devotional Making Disciples

The fear of the Lord

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10). I was a child with childlike faith, starting to read my new red Bible on my own. 

And Proverbs was my favorite. 

Proverbs 9:10
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