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Team One

There is just SOMETHING about getting away!

Team One
Team One

Brian and I were recently in Chicago-learning new things from an amazing church there. We added 2 more days on to celebrate 17 years of marriage!

Our favorite refreshers?
Reading the Word together.
Walking long distances and holding hands!
Eating really GOOD food. Chicago style.
Dessert.
Time to think and time to talk.
Laughing-lots of silliness!
And again, dessert…..

The text God kept me in was Ephesians 3:20. My heart responses are in small font.
“NOW (today)
TO HIM WHO IS ABLE (able = power. Jude v.20-24)
TO DO FAR MORE EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ( possible word: “superabundantly”)
BEYOND ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK (think, really?)
ACCORDING TO THE POWER (similar greek word as “able” -power!)
THAT WORKS (constantly energizes)
WITHIN US (regenerated hearts)
TO HIM BE THE GLORY (greek “doxa”)
IN THE CHURCH AND IN CHRIST JESUS TO ALL GENERATIONS FOREVER AND EVER.
AMEN.”

We are connected, refreshed and renewed.

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UPDATED Reading List

 

Hello  Friends! If you are like me, there is no place
better to be refreshed than in a BOOK! 
Truly, whether it's a Christian book or presidential
history, using my mind instead of "DOING",
keeps me BALANCED.
INTERESTED? Here's the latest book list!  
Click on the book for more info from Amazon.

WHAT I STUDY & DISCUSS WITH FRIENDS…

  • Believing God by Beth Moore
  • The Call by Os Guiness
  • The Purpose- Driven Life by Rick Warren (I’m enjoying revisiting & teaching parts of this!)
  • Borden of Yale by Mrs. Howard Taylor
BRIAN & I ALWAYS RECOMMEND: 
May you be CHALLENGED, BLESSED, & REFRESHED! 
Tristie

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Theological Multivitamin 2012 Edition

AUTHOR’S NOTE (2012): IN THIS MIDST OF TRIAL (KNOWN & UNKNOWN) THIS IS MY NEED TODAY!  WITHOUT MY BURDENS, SADNESS, OR EVEN STRESS, I DON’T NEED MY SAVIOR AS MUCH. HE GAVE PAUL THE ROSE  OF GRACE WITH THE THORN OF TRIAL….JUST TO KEEP HIM CLOSE! ME TOO-HOW ABOUT YOU? 

Hello friends!  I wrote this 2 years ago and still receive blessing from this verse! “As we move into the weekend, (and our family enjoys a “Sabbath” day tomorrow!) I happened upon a favorite devotional by Max Lucado…Grace for the Moment.

This is what I am “chewing on” today as I spend the day asking God to move in my own heart (thankfully redeemed!) and my family. He writes….(from the book The Applause of Heaven)…

“Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28  “As long a Jesus is one of many options, then He is no option. As long as you carry your burdens alone, you don’t need a burden-bearer. As long as your situation brings you no grief, you will receive no comfort…..but when you mourn, when you get to to the point of sorrow for your sins, when you admit that you have no other option than to cast your cares on Him, and when there is truly no other Name you can call, then cast all your cares upon him for he is waiting in the midst of the storm.”

How wonderful.

Love to you from Him and through Him,

tristie