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    Four Ways to Find Intimacy with God Through Prayer
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • 7 days ago
    • 3 min

    Four Ways to Find Intimacy with God Through Prayer

    Is there anything more important we could learn in 2021 than how prayer could transform our lives? I fear we ask the wrong questions of ...
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    Where Courage Conquered Fear
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Nov 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Where Courage Conquered Fear

    Is courage just an over-positive accounting of your skills and belief in yourself? Is it a reckless nod to adventure and risk? What is co...
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    Paul:  A Heart Transformed
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Paul: A Heart Transformed

    Most of the New Testament scripture I remember the best, Paul wrote. He was a master in communicating the truths of transformation. He le...
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    Ruth and a Risk of Love
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Ruth and a Risk of Love

    As a young adult, I wondered how I could know for sure that a marriage relationship could last for life.
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    Just Crumbs?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Just Crumbs?

    On a day when I felt my parenting skills shriveling, when fear wrapped me in an impenetrable shroud, and I felt helpless staring into a f...
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    Where Healing Meets Compassion
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Where Healing Meets Compassion

    My favorite Gospel writer is Luke. He captured so many of Jesus’ stories and interactions, especially the ones about healing. I look at the
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    Need to Know?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 26, 2020
    • 3 min

    Need to Know?

    We are people who need to know. We think that knowing more information helps us follow God. But what kind of information?
    109 views0 comments
    A Heart for God
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Heart for God

    What is the trait that makes a person someone God can use? We take personality tests. We find our number on an enneagram scale. We look a...
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    Taming a Princess
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 3 min

    Taming a Princess

    Sarah was named a princess. That's what her name means. However, her name carried no royalty. She has always been treated as a backgro...
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    God's Star
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    God's Star

    When do you see stars? At night, mostly. In fact, the darker the night, the better we see them. Esther lived in a very dark time and i...
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    How Do I Know When God Speaks?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    How Do I Know When God Speaks?

    I have been asked this question more than any other question. Too many believe that conversation with an invisible God means a one-way conv
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    What Happened to Happy?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    What Happened to Happy?

    Didn’t we used to be happy? In the eyes that stare at me above masks that cover faces I see today, I see sad and frustrated. I see tired ...
    155 views0 comments
    Who Ordered Sour Lemonade?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Who Ordered Sour Lemonade?

    My mother had an aluminum cast lemon squeezer that she used to make lemonade on the hot, muggy days of my early childhood in Houston, Texas.
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    What We Were Supposed to Learn in a Garden
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jul 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    What We Were Supposed to Learn in a Garden

    In the middle of these closed-in and travel-less times . . .
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    Spiritual Growth for Late Bloomers
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jun 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Spiritual Growth for Late Bloomers

    I love beautiful gardens. I see the beauty, but not the plan behind it. I wish I could grow something besides straggling stems and yellow...
    158 views0 comments
    Peace in a Pandemic-Part 1
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • May 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Peace in a Pandemic-Part 1

    What pushes peace aside to make you fearful, stressed, or struggling? I’ve been thinking a lot about the peace Jesus promised in these da...
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    How do I Grow Like Jesus?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jan 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    How do I Grow Like Jesus?

    And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 How do you grow wisdom or stature? How do you grow in ...
    84 views0 comments
    More than Lip Service
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Nov 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    More than Lip Service

    Remember when you got in trouble as a child? Your parent said something like, “Do you remember what I told you? Why didn’t you do it?” ...
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    Worry-less!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Nov 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    Worry-less!

    Worry is a pesky intruder that threatens to undermine everything God wants us to enjoy. Worry shows up when we are out of control, fearf...
    88 views0 comments
    Can't Never Could
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Nov 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Can't Never Could

    Playing with I can’t is as dangerous as playing with fire. Can’t rehearses the wrong information. Can’t often sets up false boundaries....
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