Nanci Lamar (Tennessee, USA)
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Sign Up TodayThis is the boldness we have in [the Son of God], that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. - 1 John 5:14 (NRSV)
As I sat in the pew for the worship service, I thought about how disconnected I felt. My daughter is grown and now makes her home in another state, so I now go to church by myself. The connections we made together during her school years have faded, leaving me...
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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