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what worked and what didn’t in 2016.
Hello my friends! I hope your Christmas was great! We had a wonderful holiday weekend, and then I woke up on Monday and wanted every single decoration taken down, stowed away in the attic, pine...
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weekend.
We’ve had an unseasonably warm winter here in Columbia, which is perfect for the various projects we have going on. And we have a LOT going on. This may be a good time to tell you that we’ve found a...
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Therefore, let him who until now has had the privilege of living a common Christian life with other Christians praise God’s grace from the bottom of his heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together 1....
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cpc retreat 2018.
Retreat Scripture passage: Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God....
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day 5: estes park.
One of the best surprises of our trip is that the church gave us gifts before we left: a fun U.S.A. travel journal, and this pack of envelopes. There’s a card and gift from a person or family for every...
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leaders collective marriage retreat.
We’d been home from our road trip just over a week before it was time to pack up and leave for a marriage retreat in Charleston. I’ll be honest: that reentry week after our grand adventure hit hard. I...
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new members class.
Happy November, my friends! Fall has really and truly come to Columbia. The leaves typically don’t begin turning until after Halloween, and so here and there a golden or berry-colored tree can be...
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giving thanks on january 1.
Happy New Year, dear readers! On Sunday afternoon I pulled dusty storage boxes down from the attic, and turned on our Spotify Christmas music playlist one last time while the kids and I took ornaments...
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Hello from sunny but cold South Carolina! This winter has been bewildering. It started back in November, and has given us lots of rain and nighttime temperatures in the low 20’s. This is not typical...
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easter weekend 2019.
Easter weekend is my favorite weekend of the year with our church. We had such a great time that it took me a whole week to recover and share about it here on the blog. We like to make the weekend feel...
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