Dreams-Visions, Spiritual Growth

First Thoughts

Over 40 years ago, Dorothy, a woman in the Netherlands, received a vision and asked her husband to share it when he visited us in Massachusetts. She said, “I saw a large table spread with many things on it that you will do, but you are to pick up one thing at a time and do it. When it is…

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Spiritual Growth

Waiting Expectantly

A pair of mourning doves recently built their nest in a fern hanging just outside my office window. In the past two weeks, I have been daily watching mama dove as she sits peacefully on her little eggs—waiting, simply waiting. Once in a while, papa dove comes by and relieves her, but when she returns, she takes her place just…

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Gerald Doctor, Healing & Wholeness

Freed! Free

We are greatly influenced by events early in our lives. Also we know that words have power to bring life or death, to lead us forward or backwards. Someone’s words—intended or not—can wound us deep inside. One day in a ninth-grade civics class we were sharing our career goals. My naïve aspiration was to become an engineer. Our teacher, Mr.…

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Spiritual Growth

What is God saying to you?

When we are out with our friends, we often ask each other, “What is the Lord saying to you.” In our experience, most people really don’t know. If I asked you this same question, how would you answer it? Will you share what you recently read in the Bible or what your pastor said? Or will you be able to…

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Dreams-Visions, Update

Update

Yes, we are alive and well! Suddenly, in early February the Lord answered prayers and made it possible for us to buy a larger home in a nearby owner-association park in Arcadia, FL. Back in December, after several dreams indicating we would be moving, I wrote out a prayer asking the Lord for a larger place, one where He wants…

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My Testimony

What does Easter mean to you?

Do you know that more of us go to church during Easter than any other time of the year? At Christmas we go because of our families, but at Easter we go for ourselves. Why? Because we need to be touched by the meaning of Easter: that life comes out of death, meaning and purpose out of chaos, and light…

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