April 18th, 2014 
Life happens, doesn’t it? The ups and downs for Christian women seem so much worse because we put so much pressure on ourselves to “do it right”, to do something big! So it made perfect sense to start memorizing scripture because “that’s what good Christian women do”, or so I told myself. I started back in 2008 with Psalm 116. It is a beautiful Psalm but I have to be honest. It didn’t …
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April 11th, 2014
Today we will hear from John Piper— 8 reasons why he memorizes Scripture.
John Piper is the founder of Desiring God. He was the pastor of preaching and teaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for more than 30 years.
Here is a summary of his 8 reasons:
1 – Memorizing Scripture makes meditation possible at times when you can’t be reading the Bible, and meditation is the pathway to deeper understanding.
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April 9th, 2014 
After college we gave our daughter what she describes as “one of my life’s greatest gifts”—lasik surgery. Since the second grade Natalie had worn glasses or contacts, barely able to see without them. When we arrived at the surgery center, I was told that I could watch the procedure in another room. Not sure if I wanted to witness this, I entered the screening room and waited. On a large monitor, about 3 …
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April 7th, 2014 
“Hear my prayer, O Lord; listen to me, O God.” This common refrain found throughout the psalms, defines our purpose for praying—we want God to listen to what we have to say. We want God to know what’s on our minds and in our hearts.
NEWS FLASH! God is omniscient. He already knows: • what we want to say • what we wish we could say • what we thought about, but …
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April 4th, 2014 
One day in 1992 I was at a women’s conference at Precept Ministries in Chattanooga, TN. I was called to the platform spontaneously by the song leader whom I did know. She asked me to share some Scripture with the group. I recited the entire book of Colossians. Somewhere in the audience was Janet Pope and you know the rest of her story. But my story has been very different than Janet’s…
Craig, …
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