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    We Need More Donkeys!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Apr 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    We Need More Donkeys!

    Perhaps the only invited participant on Palm Sunday was a donkey. A halting, hee-hawing, stubborn donkey. This was no accidental bystan...
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    How Much Faith Is Enough?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    How Much Faith Is Enough?

    They were blind. Dark is all they saw. However, there was nothing wrong with their hearing. They knew that Jesus, the Healer, was near....
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    When Something Becomes an Idol
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    When Something Becomes an Idol

    We shun the practice of bowing before sculptured idols and leaving some payment or tribute. We know there is no heartbeat in a statue, n...
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    Holiness in Person
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Holiness in Person

    Our world is starving for in-person holiness. Everybody’s different truths collide. The general belief that there is no absolute truth ...
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    God's UNfailing Love for YOU!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    God's UNfailing Love for YOU!

    God is not a stranger to our mishaps in love. He sees every rejection, every betrayal, every argument, every separation. He longs for u...
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    Take Your Heart to God
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Take Your Heart to God

    What we hold in our hearts, shapes us. That’s why God wants to make sure that everything we hold here, including what we hide, passes Hi...
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    Covered!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Covered!

    Why do we sugar-coat sin? Are we so insecure that we have exchanged rationalization for confession? David thought he could hide an ugly ...
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    Get Ready for Something New!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    Get Ready for Something New!

    When God wants to do something new, stand back and watch a Master at work. He pairs unlimited resources with perfect timing to form somet...
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    Really New
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Really New

    "When someone asks, "What's new?" we immediately think of something we bought or changed. However, really new is beyond what we can buy o...
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    Rolled Away
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    Rolled Away

    When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River to enter the land God promised them, it wasn’t just about giving them new land. It was abo...
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    Someone Cut Down My Tree!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Someone Cut Down My Tree!

    Someone cut down my tree. It was a beautiful crepe myrtle that bloomed in the spring with fistfuls of confetti-white blossoms. I enjoye...
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    Thirsty?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 3 min

    Thirsty?

    How do you know when you’re thirsty? I’m not a big water-drinker. I often quip about how dehydrated my generation must have been before w...
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    Friend or Foe?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Friend or Foe?

    Are you a friend of the cross? It depends how you respond to surrender. Crosses make more enemies than friends. It is human nature to av...
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    Shielded!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Shielded!

    Abram sat under the stars, away from conversations with his tribal compatriots, away from management responsibilities of how to move so m...
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    Return to Me
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Return to Me

    We need sabbath. We need to rest from the pushy voices that make us feel less than enough. We need sanctuary where we cannot be hunted dow
    131 views0 comments
    Ashes
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Ashes

    Today we wear the ashes of our impotence and mortality. It is a day to remember who we are and who we are not. Today we bring our uned...
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    Get Ready for Lent
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Get Ready for Lent

    In this rush about, text-crazy, isolated, and often depressed and angry world we live in, the call to come away for a time to hear a diff...
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    Seeds of Betrayal
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 27, 2018
    • 4 min

    Seeds of Betrayal

    Betrayal is a subtle visitor . . . until it isn’t. On the night that Jesus was betrayed, only Jesus saw the darkness lurking. He had gath...
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    I Want to See
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 20, 2018
    • 4 min

    I Want to See

    When our daughter began to lose sight, her world changed. Though she perceived light, the light itself blinded her because of the compro...
    91 views0 comments
    Soul Rest
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Mar 13, 2018
    • 4 min

    Soul Rest

    What was it that Jesus saw when he invited the masses to follow him and find rest? Was it their desperate faces? Empty stares? Did he ...
    92 views0 comments
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