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Practices that Cultivate Intimacy with God
When I think of people who modeled an intimate relationship with God, it always showed up best in their prayers. They were talking to a...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Feb 2, 20214 min read


Three Attitudes to Help You Find Intimacy with God
How does intimacy with God develop?.This is an important leading question because the last thing I want from prayer is a guilt...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jan 27, 20212 min read


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...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jan 19, 20213 min read


What I Learned from 2020
Has there ever been a more tumultuous, more unpredictable year than the one we’ve just lived through? We all need to pat ourselves on the...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jan 12, 20213 min read


Don't Put Christmas Away!
Christmas is over for another year. We wear our Christmas meals in extra pounds. We’ve tried to find new homes for gifts and promise...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Jan 4, 20212 min read


Something Old; Something New
You’ve heard the traditional rhyme for a bride preparing for her wedding: something old, something new; something borrowed, something...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 29, 20202 min read



Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 23, 20200 min read


Hope from Star Seekers
The Magi give me hope for every secular-minded, God-ignoring person on this planet. The Magi were God’s first clue that He sent His son...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 16, 20202 min read


What If I Had Been Mary's Mother?
We don’t know much about Mary’s mother except that she had one. There are several ways to interpret the silence.. Maybe she had died...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 9, 20202 min read


Lessons from a Carpenter
We don’t make much of Joseph. He comes into the first Christmas scene only briefly. He was engaged to Mary and obeyed an angel in a dream...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 2, 20202 min read



Debbie Salter Goodwin
Nov 25, 20200 min read


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...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Nov 12, 20203 min read


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...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Nov 11, 20202 min read


Five Hopeful Ways to Pray for National Peace
No matter where you get your news or how you form your perspectives, these are tense times.

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Nov 4, 20203 min read


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.

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Oct 28, 20203 min read


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...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Oct 20, 20203 min read


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

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Oct 14, 20203 min read


Sister Power?
I love my sister. We grew up practically joined at the hip. One of our favorite activities to share has always been time in the kitchen.

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Oct 7, 20203 min read


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?

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Sep 26, 20203 min read


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...

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Sep 23, 20202 min read