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The Hopeful Truth about Spiritual Discernment
Decisions. We make about 35,000 of them a day! Of course, not all are life changing. Many are just the mundane stuff of life. But what...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Sep 27, 20232 min read


When Iron Floated
Throw a piece of iron in water and it will sink faster than a ship with a hole in it. No one expects a hunk of iron to float to the...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Sep 13, 20232 min read


A Fishy Story
Matthew 17:24-27 It was tax day in Capernaum and the tax collectors were making the rounds. Matthew, a former tax collector, tells this...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Aug 26, 20232 min read


A Strange Meal
Ezekiel 2-3:3 Do you have an appetite for God’s Word? I mean, literally? Do you eat it for breakfast, lunch, or supper? Do you digest...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Aug 16, 20232 min read


Dying for a Sermon!
Acts 20:7-12 Who hasn’t fallen asleep during a sermon? Sometimes it has more to do with late nights and stressful days than the quality...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Aug 2, 20232 min read


Donkey Talk
When a donkey brays, people call him stubborn. But what do you call a donkey who speaks for God? That’s what happened to Balaam on his...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jul 19, 20232 min read


A Declaration of Freedom in Christ!
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jul 5, 20231 min read


When You Pray . . .
When the day was long, the crowds were overwhelming, the people demands unrelenting, Jesus refreshed himself by taking time to pray. He...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jun 20, 20234 min read


Love At All Cost
Jesus didn’t just teach about love, he loved and left us his example. However, his personification of love often went cross grain to...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jun 7, 20233 min read


How Jesus Spoke For Marriage
Imagine those sitting on the grass as Jesus teaches. Jesus takes pieces of the Ten Commandments and uses different words to talk about...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
May 16, 20232 min read


More Salt, Please!
Jesus reminded us that the way we live our lives is supposed to make people thirsty for God. It’s the potato chip response. You’ve...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Apr 28, 20232 min read


The Right Side Up Life in an Upside Down World
Jesus showed us how to live as God created us to live. His teaching was like a mirror for our lives. And that’s how we must use the...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Apr 26, 20233 min read


The Upside Down, Right Side Up Call of Jesus
Do we live so far removed from the call of Jesus that we have forgotten the uniqueness of it? How personally fitted to us it is? How...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Apr 12, 20232 min read


The Power of the Cross
Jesus had just finished private conversations with his disciples about the tumultuous times they must endure. He used the story of the...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Apr 4, 20232 min read


The Meager and the Much
You know the stories of the the poor widow widow's gift and Mary's extravagant gift. We don't usually read them together because of...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Mar 29, 20232 min read


Live Awake
What does it take to wake you up? What do you miss when you live in that twilight zone between sleepy and wakefulness? Jesus took Peter,...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Mar 22, 20232 min read


List Making With God
The convicting truth we learn from Jesus is that we always have enough time to do God’s will. What did Jesus do with the time he had? He...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Mar 15, 20232 min read


Search Me!
David asked for God to examine his heart in Psalm 139 when he asked God to search me. It made sense because God already knew what was...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Mar 8, 20232 min read


Doing Without to Have More
What activities and habits prevent you from hearing God? The best way to address this is with the spiritual practice of fasting. Too...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Mar 1, 20232 min read


For Ash Wednesday
If this journey to Easter is anything it is a journey to appreciate the difference that the breath of God makes in our lives. Without the...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Feb 22, 20232 min read