Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 27, 20232 min read
Don't Keep Jesus in the Manger!
Bethlehem . . . Egypt . . . Nazareth . . . the desert . . . Samaria . . . Jerusalem . . . Gethsemane . . . …to the cross . . . into...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Accepting God's Favor
I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant. Galatians...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 13, 20232 min read
The Lord is With You!
The angel said to [Mary], “The Lord is with you.” Luke 1:28b The Lord will stay with you as long a you stay with ! 2 Chronicles 15:2b...
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
Dec 6, 20232 min read
No Time for Neutral
Yet I hold this against you, You have forsaken the love you had at first. Revelation 2:4 I know . . . that you are neither cold nor hot....
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Debbie Salter Goodwin
Nov 8, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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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