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Heart for service: Josh Barrett finds passion, blessings after tragedy (12/11/12)While Josh Barrett grew up in a Christian home and went to church regularly, he never envisioned himself going on an international mission trip. "I never had a tug at my heart to go on one until recently," says Barrett. That tug on Barrett's heart started when he and his wife, Lisa, carried and then said goodbye to their newborn son Jonathan in June of this year...
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God led, and I followed By Bridgett Kielhofner (12/11/12)Part 1: Losing control Have you ever been driving down the road with your significant other and hit the passenger side imaginary brake? So often, when I grasp the door handle and stomp on that imaginary brake, my husband chuckles and claims, "I've got this. ...
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God speaks -- ever so softly (12/11/12)"I baptize you, Nicholas, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." The familiar words of the holy sacrament of baptism seemed to drift through me in slow motion, and I felt the prickle of goose bumps race down my spine as the priest leaned forward, dipped the gold shell into the font and three times allowed the water to gently trickle over the child's baby-fine hair...
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Trusting the traine (12/11/12)"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us." Hebrews 12:1...
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Blessings (12/11/12)I was 26, nearly nine months pregnant and a widow. My world had come to a screeching halt on April 16, 2009, when my husband of just nine months was killed in a truck accident. Our first baby was due to arrive just weeks later. I felt as if my life was over and everything that I had dreamed for my future to be was suddenly lost...
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God blessed us with a precious gift (12/11/12)Dustin, our only child, was born on a cold January morning in 1984, and in the blink of an eye, our lives were forever changed. As I was holding our beautiful newborn baby just moments after his birth, critical problems were detected and before we knew it, he was literally whisked from our arms and immediately transported from Cape Girardeau to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, where he was admitted...