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Encouragement for the second half
Articles to help adults 55+ keep serving, mentoring, and finishing strong
How Will You Celebrate Recovery?
Let’s continue to be bold risk-takers in sharing our faith, in living daily lives that reflect more faith than fear. Let’s not allow Covid to permanently sideline us or redefine us as ‘too old to serv
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All Things
“The reason I didn’t understand the passage, ‘I can do all things through Christ’ was because Paul was in prison. He’s in a prison cell, he is chained to a guard, and he is saying, “I can.” And I want
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Down to Earth
From the very start of this story, God identifies with people in humble circumstances. Apart from divine revelations through angels, a star and bright lights, Jesus in the manger would be off our rada
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Thanks ’n Giving
People with a deep sense of gratitude often respond with unleashed generosity. Stifle the thanks, and selfishness follows close behind. Thanks and giving are definitely joined at the hip…or the wishbo
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Count Your Blessings
The longer we live, the more losses we accumulate. How we face and frame these losses may determine our quality of life and longevity going forward.Having faith to know God has not deserted us when we
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Find Us Faithful
“May all who come behind us find us faithful.” We love the generation-to-generation emphasis embedded in these words. But we first have some work to do in those coming behind us even finding us!
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Parallel Visions
For those of us in the Gentile camp, Acts 10 & 11 are hugely significant chapters. God is concerned about all races, not just the Jews.We like to draw parallels, knowing God’s love extends to all race
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Off to College and Stuck at Home
Resembling our early passage into adulthood, it’s as though the whole church went away to college this past year, leaving familiar and established church-attendance routines behind and entering a new
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Half-Empty or Half-Full?
It’s true that some adults may have half the physical or mental quickness of earlier years, but certainly not everyone in life’s second half runs at half-steam. For some the glass appears nearly dry,
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Accepting Limitations
A burgeoning limitation list is not uncommon in life’s later years. We can prevent, pray through, and fight off some limitations, but how cool, too, when we allow limits to bring focus and enablement.
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Embers and Seasoned Wood
Okay, call us weird and frugal, but we’ve resisted turning on our furnace this year. Not a big deal for the month of May, but our earlier Central Coast temps dip into the thirties.We’re not anti-furna
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The Desk
I was once again greeted by the fresh scents of spring, but there was another slight smell that distracted me from my thoughts. Fresh paint!As soon as I identified the smell, I was immediately transpo
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