Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
What Books Teach Me About God
I love books. Books open worlds we cannot visit, enlarge our imaginations, and give us uncomplicated ways to explore ideas and...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
Make Room for God
Jesus called out the people who thought that they were close to God because they were descendants of Abraham. He said, Is that where our...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Four Ways to Help You Thrive Spiritually
What do we need to thrive? Food and oxygen for sure. Relationships and meaningful involvement are high on the list. We give a lot of...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
5 Ways to Stunt Spiritual Growth
Spiritual growth isn’t automatic. Nor can growth become a task on list to check off. Instead, growth is 25% determination but 75%...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Growing into a New Year
How can we make 2022 a year of spiritual growth. Nothing helps our world, our family, our communities more than become a growing follower...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
The Armies of Heaven
In most of the stories of Christmas, one angel comes to deliver a message. So why did the armies of heaven show up for the shepherds? Did...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
How Much Does God Love ME?
God chose us before we were born. We were not left like last picks for a schoolyard team. We were valued from the beginning. But not in...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
A Picture Album for God
Today, our phones have become our photo albums. We take pictures of our food, our friends, our family, our vacations, and all manner of...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
When Darkness Covers
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
Heaven cries. Nature groans. Either we can’t hear it or we ignore it. Has it always been that way? Not from the beginning. God created...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
If Gratitude Ruled the World
I’ve walked the unpaved streets in a third world country and looked at faces of people who lived in homes that had a sheet for a door. ...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Living Grateful in an Ungrateful World
Our world is not grateful. We get caught mimicking ungrateful attitudes around us. It starts with a whine and morphs into complaint. So...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
More Gratitude, Please!
Do you know what the number one killer of gratitude is? Entitlement. We build entitlement with expectations, true or false, possible or...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Where's My Sign from God?
When I am lost, I look for signs. Street signs. Landmark signs. However, what I really want is to see someone lifting up a sign that...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Unplanned Plan
How many times have I tried to make my plans only to have them explode before my eyes. Nobody was caught in the shrapnel but me. I bear...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Fight to be Right
The fight to be right is a messy war, but we engage in it all the time.. We leave collateral damage and never clean up. We squabble...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
Freedom I Cannot Buy
The truth about redemption is that someone pays for it. Always. We needed a freedom we couldn't negotiate. God wanted to reclaim the ...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Sep 29, 2021
- 2 min
When Heaven Throws a Party!
We celebrate when babies come into the world. Newborn pictures rock social media. Birth initiates a hopeful beginning. You see it in...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Sep 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Word for Today is . . .
What gets us through the times when we encounter the unexpected or unknown? I have one answer: FAITH! But there's a lot of...
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