Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Another Advent Story
Underneath the story of Christmas that we celebrate every year is another story. It is a story of waiting as long and as misunderstood as...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 24, 2019
- 1 min
My Christmas Prayer for You!
May Christmas remind you how far God came just for you. While the story is simple, the message is profound and life-changing. God broke t...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 18, 2019
- 2 min
Don't Open Until . . . ?
If Advent teaches us anything, it is that waiting is the introduction to God’s best gifts. The stories of waiting in the Bible reveal gre...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
A Startling Story
Startle me out of my complacency, God, this and every day. Dec 4 reading from The Daily Feast. Are we so used to the story of Christmas t...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
Heart Before Home
I love a decorated house. Getting it there, is another story. No matter how I store, organize or try to schedule; decorating the house ...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
More Gratitude, Please!
We need more gratitude in this world. It is an oil for relationship that heals and calms. It is a telescope that sees the world in bright...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min
A Nation Blessed?
Are we a nation God can bless or are we losing our status as a “one nation under God?” Some would say that our nation is better off witho...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Feb 13, 2019
- 2 min
For Valentine
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. We have made it a day for sharing cards, chocolate, flowers, and making expensive dining reservations. Clea...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 4, 2018
- 2 min
Straight Through
Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! Isaiah 40:3, NLT “We’re going straight through,” my father announced as he loa...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jul 3, 2018
- 1 min
Living Free
As we celebrate the freedoms our country has provided, we also live in the tension of what sometimes feels more like chaos than freedom. ...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 27, 2017
- 2 min
Christmas Every Day
So Christmas is over for this year. You have probably already made mental notes about what you will or will not do next year. And perha...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 12, 2017
- 2 min
Sight Lines
Sight is an undervalued gift. We learned that painful truth as we watched the slow vision loss our daughter experienced. It was a loss ...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 6, 2017
- 2 min
Silence is Broken
Immediately [Zechariah's] mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God. Luke 1:64, NIV First words. W...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
A Time for . . .
When I returned from Kenya, I came home with a prayer for peace for that country. Tribal warring had rocked the country. I had never bee...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jan 3, 2017
- 1 min
The Gratitude Attitude
Gratitude begins in a heart That understands everything in life is gift Breath and heartbeat, Mind and cell structure, Gravity and weathe...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 28, 2016
- 3 min
Christmas Isn't Over
The family has gathered and gone, opened presents may still wait to find their new homes, the refrigerator is crammed with left overs. D...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 16, 2016
- 1 min
Love Rules!
We are so close to Christmas. But are we just as close to Christmas Truth? Do we understand that Love is the best gift of Christmas? Come...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 2, 2016
- 1 min
Looking For Peace?
I am learning that Advent is a time to re-focus. It isn’t just an opportunity to do Christmas better. No one can improve on what God did ...
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