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A missionary kid leaves the faith and then doubts her way back to faith

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on March 14, 2013March 5, 2019
  • Confession

Today I read Faith and Other Flat Tires by Andrea Palpant Dilley.  Dilley grew up the daughter of Quaker missionaries in Kenya and then spent her college years at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. After […]

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There is a road that leads to true peace … prayer

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 30, 2013
  • faithfulness

“A peacemaker,” writes Henri Nouwen in The Road to Peace, “prays. Peace is a gift we receive in prayer. … Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and […]

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Do you really think everyone will like you?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 19, 2011
  • courage

1.  Jesus loves me. 2.  Not everyone likes me. 3.  Still, I should be who God made me to be, and so should you. Here’s why… John 7 (New International Version, ©2010)  1 After this, Jesus […]

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Here’s why we ask the Spirit to read our heart!

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 18, 2011
  • Hearing God's voice

1.  The reason that this verse … Proverbs 4:23 (New International Version, ©2010)23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. … is so vital, so utterly crucial to life […]

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Straying thoughts when trying to prayer

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 29, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Confession

In case you wondered, you’re not the only person whose thoughts have ever strayed when trying to connect with God.  Here’s the prayer of a 9th century Irish priest… Shame on my thoughts, how they […]

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Why we do what we do and why do we respond the way we do?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on November 4, 2009March 5, 2019
  • honesty

I was talking with a pastor this week and asked him what motivated him. It was clear he wants to be loved and accepted for his work in the kingdom. Being liked really motivates him. […]

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Arno River, Florence, Italy; June 2019

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