Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Nov 8
- 3 min
How Spiritual Discernment Will Grow Us
We try hard to keep our bodies and minds from unnecessary or early atrophy. Will we do the same for spiritual growth? Contrary to what...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 25
- 3 min
How Can I Know God's Will?
Help! Is that what you feel like when you want to know God's will for a specific decision? Cultivating spiritual discernment helps us...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Oct 8
- 3 min
Can I Really Learn to Recognize God's Voice?
If we want to follow God, we must be able to recognize His voice, His nudges, His warnings. But how do we do that? That is probably the...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Sep 27
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Sep 13
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Aug 26
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jun 20
- 4 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Jun 7
- 3 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- May 16
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Apr 28
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Apr 26
- 3 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Apr 12
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Apr 4
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Mar 29
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Mar 22
- 2 min
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,...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Mar 15
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Mar 8
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Feb 22
- 2 min
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...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Feb 7
- 4 min
Your Personal Letter from God
When I get a text or email from someone I love, I click through immediately. I want the connection. I want the update. As I read the...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Prayer Rhythms and How They Help
Prayer should be the spiritual rhythm that structures our days. We accomplish what God wants us to do in between prayer or during it. A...
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