10 Ways to Love the World

 How do people of the world make you feel? Uncomfortable? Insecure? Curious? Like you want to stay "home?" Or like you want to order Masaman Chicken and watch Slum Dog Millionaire?

I would never try to keep anyone from eating Masaman Chicken. (LOVE it!) I think that if we're honest, most of us would admit to being a little insecure around people or things that are different from what we're used to. But for those who are followers of Jesus Christ, we'll have the chance to get past our inhibitions and go international for eternity!

"But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ"  Phil. 3:20.

We're given this awesome glimpse into our eternity:

"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Rev. 7:9-10. 

I am happily immersed in the "nation love" this week with our Global Impact Conference, so I want to share 10 Ways to help you love the world! Just click on the link below to see the Google document and start nurturing your love for ever tribe and tongue. And while you're at it, order some Masaman! 


10 Tips for Nurturing Nation Love

A taste of the world!

Cooking is far from the usual in my kitchen this week, while we host our Global Missions Conference. My friend from Thailand showed me how to make an awesome stir-fry! I stocked up on quick lunch components to send off with the kids, since I know life is a bit crazy around here this week.



Last night we had all of the missionaries to our home for dinner. After an "American style" meal, two of our couples made us their national drinks: Cocido from Paraguay and Chai from India. The kitchen was busy with spices and strainers and dry tea mixes and couples doing what is universal ... trying to work together miraculously as one! The result was delicious, and we all enjoyed sampling the culture.

Jacob enjoying Terere with little MK Jordan 

We finished the evening with a time of prayer, shared in five different languages. It's amazing that God understands every tribe and tongue and extends His love to all of us. His heart for the world is not limited. The sound of voices lifting praise in the languages of people of the world ... beautiful.

It's a full and wonderful week here for us. We appreciate your prayers, and I'll look forward to sharing more with you!

7 Days in a Cafe ~ Day ONE

If you watched my first vlog, you've heard about 7 Days in a Cafe. If you got my last post via email, I'm not sure the vlog showed up, so click here to see what you missed!

So today is my first of the "Days in a Cafe." I'm at my most favorite coffee shop - The Remedy. I thought it was a good place to start to watch, listen, and learn about people and God's love for them. It caused me to think about what makes this spot my favorite ...

When you walk in, the wooden floors are soft and smooth, with the evidence of many feet from all walks of life. I'm barely through the door, when the barista Matt calls out, "Hey Julie!"  "Hey Matt!" I answer back. The February sun is coming in the full length glass front windows, and the light catches on the faces of each person spending a piece of their day here. The barista calls out to me to see if my decaf is okay, because he made it with decaf espresso; he knows I like it strong. 

The 30 something data analyst taking a break to house hunt on his laptop, the couple sharing a full pot next to the window, the older man in the khaki jacket leaning on the counter, and the couple strolling in with a new baby.  I guess they're on a date. We are, too, but our "babies" are taking Geometry and Spanish 3 tests today. The girls by the window are talking about Twitter and about politicians they've heard about who do foolish things; they laugh and move on to talk about the Cancer Society not supporting Planned Parenthood. As we all sit and sip our coffees, the song "Evil is Alive and Well" plays, and the two girls stop talking and just hum. The train runs by the back of the building and blows its whistle on the way to the bridge where homeless people hang out before dinner ... and after. The barista sings a little harmony with "Evil is Alive and Well," and the data analyst joins in. 

Except for the sound of the man in the back talking about the rise in earthquake frequency, it's really quiet. The barista actually has good voice. Someone walks in and shakes the barista's hand. The new man sits down at their table. The data analyst says, "Good to see you, buddy."  They talk about the Reuben sandwich up the street, and they ask us how much it is; they know Jeff had one this week. We all talk about what we like for lunch. We recommend what's good to each other. People come here, because here they're known. Yes, the coffee is good, but people are known, and that's really good.

People seem to be drawn to where we're known and to who knows us. God knows that. Matt. 6:8 says, "your Father knows what you need before you ask him." 

Can we take that sweet quality of "knowing" people with us when we leave the Remedy? Sometimes the floors of life are not soft yet from the polishing of steady feet. Sometimes the floors are rough or slick, and no one greets you when you arrive. Sometimes even church is like that, but what if we took that "knowing" with us when we go? What if we say "Hey" and use people's names? What if we remember things like how we like our coffee? What if we hum? What if we help people know what's good? What if we help people know WHO is good? God is good, and He knows us best of all. 



My first day in a cafe is almost over. It's almost time to pack up and leave.  The song has changed. It's not about evil anymore. Now it's "This is home. I've been searching for a place of my own ... " I think I'll hum that when I get up to leave, and I'll take it with me. It feels so good to know and be known. People long for that, and sometimes they go into a cafe to find it. Maybe they can find that with people who know God, and then maybe they'll find they want to know Him too. 


So good to know you,

Touched by Ugly & Penn State

No one wants to be part of "ugly," but the truth is that sometimes ugly is out there. Most of are quick to gasp or shake our heads when watching reports about child abuse exposed in prominent places like Penn State or in our own neighborhoods, but we resist letting the ugly touch us.  But it does.


The American Academy of Pediatrics defines child abuse as "when a person (adult or child) takes advantage of a child in a sexual way." And if you've heard that a child's abuser is usually someone they know, you've heard correctly. We're hearing that in the details unfolding on the Pennsylvania campus. Such abuse shakes the foundation of a child's trust compass, and that's more than hard to restore.


In a world where parents are okay with kids playing games involving bloody violence and wearing costumes portraying characters who beat, tease, and threaten, I wonder why we gasp so much when we hear that children have found themselves the victims of real life people like that and have not known what to do. Why are we so surprised it's part of the fabric of our world? From the time of a child's birth, our culture moves the line of acceptable touch and appropriate relating, until we find ourselves at the place where about 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys are abused sexually in their childhood years. That changes a childhood. That changes an adulthood.


Our local homeless shelter teaches that the one factor most homeless and addicted adults share in common is that of childhood sexual abuse. The National Children's Advocacy Center reports that adults who suffered abuse as kids are more likely to grow up and experience illnesses like heart disease, auto immune disorders, migraines, and obesity, to name a few. They're also more likely to face mental disorders like anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, and panic attacks. And they're more likely to put themselves in places where they keep being abusive to themselves and letting others abuse them, practicing eating disorders, sexually reckless behaviors, selt-mutilation, and drug use. Child abuse keeps abusing.


God hates child abuse. He hasn't just learned to just gasp and shake. In fact, He feels so strongly that Jesus said,  "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt. 18:5-7).


God wants us to receive children with the same kind of love He does, and that means we have to learn how to see them.  If you've ever looked into the eyes of an abused child (and I bet we all have ...) you might find their gaze is lowered or angry, and they may hide behind a thin wall of bangs and a thicker one around their heart. If child abuse really offends us, we should learn how to "see" it.


Focus on the Family provides this list of symptoms to make us more aware of how to do a better job of putting the line of kindness to children back where it should be. We can gasp and shake our heads, but it doesn't really make any difference until we're willing to learn and maybe get involved in some "ugly" on behalf of those less vulnerable who aren't sure how to speak for themselves.


Would you be willing to pray the risky prayer of asking God to teach you how to "see" children in trouble?

If you've been the victim of childhood sexual abuse yourself, and the odds are that more than one person reading this is, I highly recommend this excellent book by Sharon Jaynes - Your Scars Are Beautiful to God. 

Talking to yourself again?

I've decided to embrace talking to myself. The kids make fun of me for talking to the dog ;) but I've got the authority of scripture to back me up when it comes to talking to myself!

Worship with believers in Romania

The priestly Sons of Korah penned the words of Psalm 42; the writer feels discouraged and oppressed. Can you relate? Their problem is that their oppressors (troublemakers, difficult people ... you know the kind) have kept them from going to the sanctuary in Jerusalem to worship. They are north of the Sea of Galilee, far from the temple. Though they know they can worship anywhere, there's something unique about gathering with the followers of God and worshiping corporately in His house? While individual worship is sweet, I hope you've experienced group worship.


Attendance at the "sanctuary" is a privilege, a joy and a help, not a burden. Things like sleep, sports, the lake, sleep, tv, holidays, sleep .... can tempt us to ignore gathering with God's people to worship Him as a group. We easily fall into the trap of "one week won't hurt," or "I can just worship on my own," and a habit turns into a lifestyle. Group worship extends to every culture; no one is excluded from God's desire for us to know and respond to Him in this way. God plans for us to enjoy Him through corporate worship. Do you look forward to it?


Unable to worship with others in God's house, kept at a distance, the writer is "downcast." In other words, just a few weeks out of fellowship with a church body, and your spirit begins to show neglect. Have you experienced that? God is with us individually and wants us to know Him:

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. ~ Ps. 42:8

But God intends for us to gather in worship. We know how ignoring church body life can leave us feeling like God has forgotten us, with hopelessness creeping in. Psalm 43 really goes WITH the 42nd and gives the answer for when we feel "disconnected" from the church:  

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! ~ Ps. 43:3

God's truth is our means of rescue and encouragement. The answer to discouragement that comes from distance from God is to walk His way and worship Him.

Twice in Psalm 42 and again in Psalm 43, the writer "talks to himself." I think I like the Sons of Korah!

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. Ps. 42:5,11, and 43:5

So go ahead ... talk to yourself! It's biblical. :) And if we're speaking the truth, it will lead us and bring us right to God's house in anticipation of sweet worship.

How do you plan to worship this week?

Good God, Good Food

Wednesday night the leaders of fall studies at our church had a little "Open House" to chat up our groups, answer questions, and sign people up to grow with us. I'm excited to be co-teaching a study on God's Covenants. God is good and does good. It's going to be rich! 



While standing at the table (okay ... I admit, I was leaning ... maybe drooping ...) a friend came over to chat. She wished me a happy bday and asked how I was. I gave her a nutshell version of Jeff's illness, the time at the doctor/pharmacy, and (I think she could tell without me saying ...) our lost sleep (Jeff does everything 100%, and coughing is no exception!).  As she listened sympathetically, she held her infant/5th child.


Without hesitating, she said, "Let me bring you dinner tomorrow!"  HER?? Bring ME dinner??  The woman with 5 kids/home schooling bring dinner to me who is just sending her 2 kids off to high school? I resisted. Strongly. She pretended like she gave up ... and then came back around. She won. She won, because she has ordered her world in such a way that she said she already had meals prepared in the freezer, and she would pull one out and give it to us. She said that meals had so blessed HER FAMILY when the baby came, and she was happy to bless in return. I can't overstate how blessed I was then ... and again at 5:00 last night.


Isn't it amazing how the gift of food lightens the load of a weary soul and nourishes the spirit, as well as the body? That's what her meal did for me, and I'm so thankful she considered sharing and serving and meeting a need important to her. I'm so glad that, despite all of the people and things in her OWN world, she took time to notice the need in someone else's world - my world. She blessed me.

Psalm 119:68 says about God, "You are good and do good."

Every good and perfect gift comes from our Heavenly Father, (James 1:17) and He often uses other people to be the vehicle of delivering those gifts. It's one of the ways He expresses His goodness and does good.

It's a temptation when things in my life are going well to forget or not notice those who are weary and in need of nourishment, spiritually or physically or relationally. Oh that God would keep us in enough need to keep our hearts soft to those who hurt. 

Tomorrow is the final day of my August S.O.S. project ~ Somalia On Saturdays. I hope you've taken the opportunity to slow down in the midst of your abundance and think, pray, and even give to those who are weary and in need of nourishment in Africa. The need grows. More die. People are crying out to God, and He may use us to deliver His goodness. I hope you'll join me tomorrow in a final day of S.O.S. It's not too late, if you haven't taken a day yet. And if you can't take all of the day, take part of it. Do what you can to show God's goodness. Maybe this is the time you should forward this post to a friend and use your influence to invite someone else to SOS with us. Who could you invite?  

We were hardly starving yesterday and definitely not in danger of death or attack, but I was so blessed by the gift of a meal ... and the tangible reminder that God is good and does good.

Yesterday's giveaway winner, chosen by Random.org  is Jenny C, which happens to be very sweet, since she is my sister. :) I'm going to say that might be more "divine" than "Random." :)

Today's giveaway is something so special, so I saved it for last. Since we've been in Psalms this month, I want to give away a copy of the One Year Book of Psalms. It has been a cup of cold water to my spirit many times, and I'm smiling to think of one of my sweet readers being encouraged by the pages. To enter, just leave a comment today or Saturday (I'll announce the winner Sunday) telling me one way God has given you a tangible reminder of how HE is good. It might be food, or it might be something else. Let's praise Him together!

S.O.S. ~ Somalia on Saturdays

I was in the airport in Wyoming when I first saw the pictures. In the 2 weeks since, I have watched and prayed and thought and laid awake and pondered. Maybe this blog is my "two mites;" I know God wants to use it to help answer the prayers and cries of suffering people.


I'm talking about the crisis unfolding in Somalia, impacting areas in the Horn of Africa such as Ethiopia and Kenya. Millions of people are being impacted in the first official famine declared by the UN in the 21st century. The first chance of rain is expected to be October. The Dadaab Refugee Camp is overflowing with over 400,00 people, with 1,300 more arriving daily. Refugees are walking out of Somalia for up to 50 miles, just to reach the camp and a chance for food many haven't had in a week. Surviving parents are making the difficult decision to leave some children alone to die on the road when they are too weak to go on. Along the way, women are facing increasing violence and sexual assault from the truly wicked.



This crisis is the result of an awful collision of drought, food prices, and violence. Many people are responding in the name of many worthwhile things, but I want to respond on behalf of God's name. I was waiting for someone else to lead the way, but God has imprinted an idea of His on my heart and mind that I am sure He is waiting for me to obediently respond to.

There are 4 Saturdays in August. One one or more or all of the Saturdays in August, would you forgo solid food with me and use the money, instead, to give it to meet needs in Somalia? 

I'm asking for you to think, pray, and give for "Somalia on Saturdays."  I'm calling it "S.O.S." for short. I want us to remember to pray for those who are suffering every time a hunger pang strikes or the abundance passes us.

Many experienced organizations are intervening. As of now, these are faith based organizations I have found that are already on the ground or implementing plans of support in crisis areas:  (Click on any one to read about their plans.)

• Compassion International -
• Samaritan's Purse International Relief -
• World Help -
• World Vision -

You don't have to tell me if you give or where you give or how much you give. Just give in Jesus' name in the way He would give. Will you help me honor Him by taking at least one Saturday this month to think, pray, and give to "Somalia on Saturday?" I know the Lord is calling me to act, and I pray He will call you too to join me in S.O.S.

I've created a Facebook event to help spread the word. Please visit and help spread the word so that more followers of God will act on His behalf in response to the cries of Africa.

If you are a blogger who wants to join me and share this wherever you have "two mites," feel free to copy the code.  We are using the hashtag #SOSproject on Twitter.


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Who Learns in VBS?

Isn't Vacation Bible School supposed to be for kids to learn about God? When I was preparing to teach 5 yr olds with JoHanna this week, that's what I was thinking and praying toward. Little did I know ...

Last night's big idea in the lesson was:  I can trust Jesus because He loves me. 

We used Psalm 56:3 to teach "When I am afraid I will trust in You."  I'm not "afraid," but I'm spending VBS week home sick. I've missed the first 2 nights, and Jeff has "helped" me come to the place where I realize I need to stay home the rest of the week. I HATE having to bail out on a commitment. I was planning to teach with our 16 yr old JoHanna, so she's had the chance to be stretched and to grow in serving. A sweet friend stepped up to help fill in some of the gaps I've left. It seems like the grown ups are learning as much as the kids are learning this week of VBS!

My version of Psalm 56:3:   When I am ... frustrated, disappointed, confused, weak, sick .... I will trust in You. Yes, I really can trust Jesus because He loves me. It works for kids, and it works for grown ups.

I've been meditating on Romans 5 in the last month; verses 3 and 4 are timely truths for me today.

I've learned it in the English Standard Version: 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

In the NIV Reader's Version it says:
And that's not all. We are full of joy even when we suffer. We know that our suffering gives us the strength to go on. The strength to go on produces character. Character produces hope. 

5 Ways I will rejoice today:

1. God is stretching my daughter in her own ministry skills, and she's rejoicing.
2. God provided sisters in my local church to carry my load when I couldn't.
3. My husband is strong enough to make me care for my needs ...and I'm trying to cooperate.
4. I'm so thankful I have access to medicine and the freedom/permission to rest.
5. God shows me new things when He imposes extra quiet time on me. Thank You, Lord.

Are you facing a challenge?  Frustrated, disappointed, confused, weak, sick? The VBS lesson works for kids and grown ups. We can trust in Jesus, because He loves us. How are you rejoicing?

Tasty Tuesday ... Table Talk

Tables talk. What does your table say about you? And what does your table say about your guest?

My wonderful, but FULL, last month and a half has finally caught up with me. That "roaring" in my right ear was not just the sound of the engines, since I ALWAYS END UP IN THE BACK OF THE PLANE ;) No ... it was an ear infection growing in my right ear.


God has been so good to me to hold back the full impact of being sick while I ministered in Thailand and Paraguay and then spent a joyous week in Ohio with my daughter and many sweet friends. But now ... now my body wants attention, and the Lord opened a seat in the busy walk-in clinic for me Monday. I have another antibiotic, a heavy duty antihistamine, the help of my family, and the prayers of friends. The Lord even gave me a sweet sister to "be me" at the first night of Vacation Bible School last night. I'm praying I'll get to be there soon to serve with JoHanna. My voice is barely a whisper, and I definitely need that if I'm teaching 5 year olds! I appreciate your prayers for the return of my energy and voice.


One of the things we do at our evening VBS is serve a light meal. It says to our children "We love you and want to meet your needs, physically AND spiritually." It says, "Sit down and be served. We want you to be satisfied." We serve this meal each night on paper plates and in Styrofoam cups, but we serve it with smiles and warm words and kindness. Our master hostess Tee does a wonderful job of making the meal work well for hundreds of children and staff members. It's heavenly hospitality.


When we serve, "our table talks." At VBS, our "kid audience" gets the love message loud and clear on paper plates, but sometimes, the language of hospitality takes a different form. Always, serving with love is what matters more than dishes or linens. A rotten attitude ruins a great meal.

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.  As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.  ~ 1 Peter 4:8-10

Last week JoHanna and I visited friends and were served on a SPECIALLY prepared table. I have to show it to you. It really reflects the personality of our dear friend, her love of things from days gone by, and her hospitable spirit that doesn't go out of style. The way she set the table says "love."

Look at all the special details! I felt like an honored guest.

When talking about serving a meal, our "table definitely talks," telling our guest what we think of them and our time together. Can you understand why I felt so loved when I sat down to my friend's table? The food was not extravagant, but she had spent time planning for our time together. It was an important appointment for her. She wanted to refresh us in our time together. I felt so blessed. And this was just one of several meals served by sweet friends who "loved on" us at their tables last week. We were so encouraged by the "language at their tables."


Whatever we're serving food or leading in VBS crafts or welcoming parents or organizing games, our attitude in serving can produce a blessing or a curse. Oh that we would serve those at the "table of life" with a spirit of hospitality, with an attitude like Jesus has. That's a table I want to gather around!  You?

What is your table saying to those you serve?

Tasty Tuesday ... French Toast with Raspberry Sauce

When a room full of women are dismissing to go to their study groups, and a voice cries out, "Wait!  I want to know who brought the amazing french toast!" .... you know a great recipe motivated the plea. And when the room responds with lots of "mmmhmmm," followed by a rush for the few remaining bites, you know it has to be shared on Tasty Tuesday. I only wish I was the one who brought it!


My friend LeAnn brought this to our women's Daybreak last week, and she was kind enough to share it. It's originally from eatbetteramerica.  You can see all the nutrition info there, also. I don't want to spoil it here by telling you how good it is for you!  Check out the recipe and the picture (taken from the website), then be sure to see LeAnn's commentary at the end. ;)

French Toast with Raspberry Sauce
1 loaf (1 lb.) soft French bread (about 18 inches long)
4 oz. of 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup raspberry preserves
1 cup fat-free egg product
1 cup fat-free (skim) milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt

Sauce
1 bag (12 oz.) frozen whole raspberries without syrup, thawed
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch 

1  Spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Cut bread into 24 (3/4-inch-thick) slices. Spread 12 slices with cream cheese. Spread remaining bread slices with preserves; place over cream cheese to make 12 sandwiches. Arrange in baking dish, pressing together if necessary to fit.

2  In medium bowl, beat egg product, milk, 1 tablespoon sugar and the salt with wire whisk until blended. Pour over bread in dish. Let stand 15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.

3  Heat oven to 400°F. Cover dish with foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray (to help it not stick to the toast); bake 10 minutes. Uncover; bake 15 to 20 minutes longer or until golden brown.

4 Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, mix sauce ingredients until blended. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring frequently. Boil 30 seconds to 1 minute or just until thickened. Place strainer over medium bowl; pour raspberry mixture into strainer. Press mixture with back of spoon through strainer to remove seeds; discard seeds. Serve sauce over French toast.  LeAnn has one of my favorite bad habits: "I have a bad habit of trying out new recipes on people (instead of trying them first on just my family). This recipe seemed to turn out fine except for one part. There are two sentences of instructions in the recipe that seem innocuous enough. They say, “Place strainer over medium bowl; pour raspberry mixture into strainer. Press mixture with back of spoon through strainer to remove seeds; discard seeds. Well, this little part of the recipe did not go very well for me. I tried the one “strainer” I had in the entire kitchen. I spent 15 minutes trying to force that mixture through that strainer and ended up with about 3 tablespoons of sauce. I tried some other options I had like colanders, etc. They just let the seeds right through. After way too much effort and time on this endeavor, I gave up and poured the sauce, seeds and all, into the container to take to church. I just hoped the other women in the group didn’t detest seeds as much as I do! I am not a natural cook – just someone who follows directions really well. I don’t have a clue what kind of strainer I needed for this job. I believe the correct tools would have made this easier (and seedless!)." From the rush to LeAnn's casserole dish, the puddles of raspberry sauce, and the residue on a certain lady's lips ... I don't think anyone minded the seeds. :) Great fiber! Thanks to Jen and Lisa for hosting Tasty Tuesday and Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, great places to find great recipes.  And another awesome recipe source?  Your church family!!! Do you have a recipe you love that first came from a friend in your church family? Love the sound of LeAnn's recipe? Click below to share it on Facebook, Twitter, or in an email. And while you're off to Twitter, follow JulieSanders_  or if you're off to Facebook, "Like"  the Come Have a Peace page to see quick updates. :)

Love your hometown through prayer!

We do something for love, one person at a time. But how about loving your whole hometown? How do you do it? Do you know that more than half of the world now lives in urban areas? How do you love a whole city?

On Wednesday before lunch, Lee Ann at my church sent me an email to ask if I'd seen the Facebook update of our local homeless shelter. I hadn't. She pasted it on the email, telling me about the crowds there this week & the great needs. I emailed one of our partners at the Ministry and got a list of needed items within an hour. I sent an email to hundreds of women at my church, and within 24 hours, a pile grew in the church foyer ... baby items, Clorox wipes, medicines, feminine products, games for children, and so much, much more. 24 hours after the first email, I was driving to my city with the gifts of my church family.  As Jacob and I carried the bags up the stairs, a man called out, "Did you give all this stuff?"  "No. It's all from my church.  We love you!"


More importantly, JESUS loves us! Giving to meet practical needs is a beautiful way to show His love.  What fun to get to be the driver of the delivery car!!!


Another beautiful way to love your hometown  is to PRAY.  On the last Monday of every month in 2011, believers in our area are meeting at various area churches for an hour (noon - 1 pm) just to pray for our city. It's called Pray for Awakening.  We'll ask God to show Himself clearly, to meet needs, to reach people, to turn hearts to Him, to give hope, to change us. I've called this city my "hometown" for almost seven years. We're praying for our city, because we love it. We love the people in it. It's something we can all do for love, wherever we live, urban, suburban, or rural. Do you love your community?

 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 

 Jeremiah 29:12-13

If you're in my area and would like to gather with us to pray, just come to Northstar Church (Info HERE). There's no program or agenda or welcome or bulletin, just prayer out of love. And if you love our city with me and wrote a post about this chance to Pray for Awakening in Knoxville, feel free to link your post below to help get the word out.

And if you're just one of my sweet readers of Come Have a Peace, but you have your own hometown, leave a comment here or comment on the CHP Facebook page to let me know where you are, and we'll pray for God to move there, too. Please join us on Monday as we love our city and Pray for Awakening. As we wrap up a month about "the things we do for love," it's a great way to finish!

Giving & Teaching for Love

I just added a link to follow Come Have a Peace on FACEBOOK or to follow on TWITTER.    I've been resisting ... ;) but maybe this will be a great tool for encouragement. I pray so. :)     You are invited to join me there, friends.  There is also a new button to share a post on Facebook or via Twitter.  If ever you want to pass on words you read here, I would be honored.

I lost something last week and have been searching for it everyday to no avail.  In the midst of all of my searching, I have discovered a lot of things in the "corners" of my closets and rooms that I do not use and do not need.

This Sunday our church is taking part in the "Corners of Your Field" project. Just like farmers like Boaz in the Old Testament, we are intentionally taking our excess and donating it to our Knox Area Rescue Mission as stock in their 2nd hand stores, so the poor may benefit from what we find in our own "corners."  Have you checked your corners? Giving out of our abundance is a great way to do something for love of God and love of people.


Have you ever had God give you an opportunity you felt too small to accept, yet you loved it and thanked Him for it? It has been like that for me in writing with 5 other women on the Scripture Dig website. The other five ladies (Teri Lynne, Sandra, Kristi, Stephanie, Kathy) are truly lovers of God and of His Word. They write out of that love. Today I want to share with you about Kathy's most recent book that is a labor of her love. It's a practical and realistic answer to the things in life that shake us and sometimes shake our faith.


My Scripture Dig sister, Kathy Howard, is a Bible study author and speaker who has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years. She’s taught a wide range of topics to an even wider range of students – everything from basic Bible stories at a middle school to teacher training for church leaders. Kathy particularly enjoys speaking at women’s events and retreats to encourage them in their faith. She has a Masters in Christian Education and serves on a church staff in West Texas.


Kathy and her husband have three children and one son-in-law. When the family gets together there are also four dogs in the mix. Kathy writes to have something to do while drinking coffee. :)  You can find out more about her Bible studies and speaking ministry and get discipleship tools and leader helps at her website: www.kathyhoward.org. Kathy will be teaching a session at our church's women's retreat on April 8 & 9 in Pigeon Forge, TN. Email me if you'd like more info.:)  You can come!!


Unshakeable Faith, Kathy's new 8-session Bible study for women, has just been released and helps readers apply 8 key “faith traits” found in the life of Peter so they can weather the harshest storms of life. It's written about "real applications," with examples from the lives of "real women." I feel like this is a very timely study for the lives of women today. Many of us deal with circumstances like life-threatening illness, divorce, death of a child, and financial hardship. Kathy has seen her own friends face these life shaking events and emerge with a stronger faith. She also juggles the everyday things of life – work, family, ministry, and home life – without too much difficulty. But sometimes, even in just a small crisis, Kathy's self-sufficiency is shaken. She asked herself, "Would I stand firm in really hard times or would these trials knock me flat?" She began to ask God to show her how her faith could be prepared.


Unshakeable focuses on the life of Peter and what made the difference in his faith. Unshakeable Faith looks closely at Peter’s life and teachings to discover the key characteristics God built into his faith that helped him stand firm. Kathy says, "Unshakeable Faith not only leads readers into learning God’s Word, but it also purposefully helps readers apply it." 


In addition to each week’s application section, there is a “Faith Shaker” story about real women who have faced a life trial with which many readers will relate. Readers get to see how their faith keeps them standing firm. A strong faith in Jesus Christ does work in real life!



You can get a copy of Unshakeable Faith at many bookstores or here.


Just like when the woman did the "Beautiful Thing" out of love, when we do beautiful things for love, God is glorified! I'm looking forward to giving the Corners of My Field to my local mission this Sunday, and I'm looking forward to working through Kathy's new book, Unshakeable Faith.

Tomorrow, I want you to be so encouraged and blessed by the story of one mother's beautiful act of love. The picture of her love will linger with you and encourage you this weekend and beyond.

A little weekend encouragement, anyone?

If you find yourself snowed in and needing a little encouragement this weekend ... or if you just need a little encouragement this weekend ... :) let me send you to the newest issue of our Women's Ministry CHAIN.  It is meant to Connect, Help, Attach, Inspire, and Nurture women. You'll find it is full of stories of women just like you. 

This edition is particularly full of uplifting testimonies and reminders of God's help in times of need and of His delight in those who pursue Him. It's all about what it takes for a woman to "win" for God in her life.  I hope it will bless you this weekend and breathe fresh encouragement into your heart!

Click on these two links to read the Winter CHAIN:
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Festive, Significant, Peaceful

Christmas at the Shelter

It was Christmas at the Shelter, on another frigid night.

The halls were filled with bags and packs, all piled high and tight.

Tired feet were wet and cold, in lines they shuffled past,

relieved to find some warmth out of the street's December blast.

Outside was lit with strings of lights hung up above the stores.

Inside was dim, adorned with hopeful eyes of all the poor.

The pews were used for sleeping, and the halls were lined with mats.

Instead of bows and garland, precious things were gloves and hats.

Layered coats were set aside and towels were passed around.

Belongings set up carefully, once each her small space found.

Some had friends among them and gathered as they came.

One was new and frightened, and no one knew her name.

There were women young and women old and women in between.

All were glad for showers, the warmth, the fresh, the clean.

Some talked about their families, of the people they would call.

Others told of distant homes and had no one at all.

For some so glad to talk and share, their stories would unfold,

but blankets over tired heads, for others silence told.

There were those with education, with positions and careers,

passed away with houses and replaced with hopes and fears.

Side by side we sat and talked and sometimes said a prayer.

"Thanks for listening," they would say, "and taking time to care." 

But when we leave and go back home to where we know our bed,

A gift will stay behind us, showing Jesus' love instead.

A bag of socks for weary feet that burned out in the chill,

With chap stick, snacks and other helpful things the package filled.

When each one had a love gift and had settled down to rest, 

They turned to us, to our surprise, and made sure we were blessed.

"Merry Christmas, many thanks for all you came to bring!"

But we were blessed in going with our Christmas offering.

For Jesus understands what it can be to have no bed, 

To be homeless in a city with no place to lay your head.

Some will still take refuge there when mistletoe's not hung.

Heavy feet will enter, though no carol's being sung.

But in the Christmas story there's a message we should hear.

Worship Christ through giving in His name throughout the year.

~ A Christmas gift for you and all who need a place of refuge, written by Julie Sanders

Thank you for reading here at Come Have a Peace.  Your reading has helped to make my Christmas festive, significant, and peaceful.  I'm praying your Christmas will be, too. 


Until January 3rd, the first Marriage Monday of the new year,

Strangers make it significant

Last week we reflected on what makes Christmas truly festive, and yesterday we began to consider how it can be more than merry; it can be significant.    In Christmas God shows us the perfect example of what it is to serve.


Christmas is a story of strangers, a secret to its significance.

• Mary delivered Jesus in a stable belonging to ... strangers.
• Strangers ... from a nearby field were the first visitors to the small family.
• Wise men from the East came to visit the family they had never met ... strangers.
• Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt among ... strangers. 

If the characters of Christmas held firmly to the "don't talk to strangers" rule, the story would break down. Christmas pageants would be really short!  

Christmas requires the intersection of the lives of strangers, because it draws on our need to trust ... to believe. 

My dad is really good at talking to strangers. I love that about him. He can quickly find a point of connection with someone at a counter or a restaurant or on a park bench. Grandkids love that. ;)  I'll never forget the night he brought a troubled man to our home to give him shelter. I was small and afraid, but I remember my mom telling us we could invite the stranger in, because we trust God. 

Yesterday Jeff and I went to a graduation of six people who have been through the rehabilitation program at our Knox Area Rescue Ministry. Most of the people were strangers to us.  Some of them had been strangers at this time last year, but they aren't any more. Jesus drew us all together, as we listened to these words from Psalm 40:2:

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and 

He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. 

Then we sang together "I Believe You're My Healer" and "How He loves me, Oh, how He loves me ..."  The voices sang with conviction, and the words came from their hearts. We prayed and clapped and gave praise, as testimonies were given of God's power over darkness and of restoration.  This is what Christmas was meant to do.  Strangers are brought together when Jesus changes their lives with His. 

The service closed with hugs and pictures and weeping, grateful family members. We walked out into the bitter cold, as people filed past us into the warmth before lunch was served. Most didn't have gloves. A man with only one foot scooted by in a wheel chair; his single foot had no sock on it. A girl passed me, looking about the age of my daughter. Strangers?  Yes.  Don't talk to strangers?  No.  Jesus came specifically to talk to strangers.  He came to love strangers and to help us love strangers.  

Do we dare pray that God will put us in the path of a stranger, that He will disrupt and disturb our Christmas errands with the need of a stranger?  I suspect that if we do, we will find that Christmas becomes more significant, and I want that as much as you do. 

Will you please pray for us tonight as we go back to the Shelter with a group of men and women from our church? Our church family gave 900 packages of warm socks filled with personal items, complemented with a tract we wrote specifically for tonight (Sock it to Me).  The tract shares the message of the Gospel from ..... Psalm 40:2, the same scripture that opened the graduation service.  God must want us to give fresh attention to that truth and to remember Christmas is all about being lifted out of the mud and mire to walk in newness of life. Pray for us as we go give gifts of compassion to open doors of life. It's cold outside again, and the dorms and halls and pews will be filled .... with strangers, and Jesus loves strangers. 


Praying God will bless your Christmas with a stranger encounter,

Marriage Mondays ~ Legacy of Love

Today on Scripture Dig I have the pleasure of kicking off our November theme on Gratitude. After a focus on salvation and the Church, giving thanks seems natural. The collision of October and November stirs up several significant dates in the story of the Body of Christ. I hope you'll check out the reason why "History reminds us to give thanks."

A lot of people today feel discouraged they don't have much of a legacy to follow when it comes to examples of loving, godly marriages. But many Christians who "walked the aisle" before us carved out a legacy of love we can claim as our own. Don't have a glorious marriage history in your family albums? Let me introduce you to your Uncle Ed and Aunt Sarah.


He was actually a melancholy sort of a guy, but she matched his intensity with her bright and light hearted ways. They fell in love when they were teenagers; she was just 13. He grew into a strict young man, and she developed into a carefree woman some described as "extravagant." When they were married in the summer, she was just 17 and wore a green dress. They set good habits as a young couple, having devotions together at night. He found a position as a pastor in New England, and every day she sat and listened while he read his latest writing to her. It wasn't all work for the two lovers; they enjoyed horseback rides together in the woods. They ultimately welcomed children into their home, where their serious father set aside an hour each day to focus on his children, making one on one time for each of the 11 children. This was the love affair and shared life of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards.


Many know about Jonathan's writing, his sermons like the classic "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," his influence on missions, and his part in the First Great Awakening. But we don't often hear about his Sarah and how the carefree woman inspired and helped him. A contemporary preacher, George Whitefield, said this about Sarah: "Mrs. Edwards is adorned with a meek, quiet spirit; she talked solidly of the things of God, and seemed to be such a helpmeet for her husband, that she caused me to renew those prayers, that I have put up to God, (for) a wife."*


This is not the picture of a stiff, passionless, Puritan lady who was bound in marriage by duty. Instead, this is the portrait of a joy filled woman who had her own walk with God, approached all of life passionately, delighted in her husband and children, and was at ease in her own skin "as a woman." It's no wonder that the marriage of Jonathan and Sarah produced 80 college presidents/professors/deans, 100 lawyers, 66 doctors, 80 political leaders, 3 senators, 3 governors, and many missionaries and pastors out of their descendants.

1 Peter 3:3-6

Your adornment must not be merely external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

What a legacy for us as wives who first have our own walks with God and live out the overflow in our homes. Abraham's Sarah was "ancient" when Sarah Pierrepont was a 13 yr old girl, singing and walking alone through the fields, seeming to "have someone invisible always conversing with her," but the same attitude was passed on. That's a beautiful page in our spiritual family album, and we have a great opportunity to add to the heritage. 

What will you do today to add to the heritage of godly wives?


*Some information and quotes are from On This Day by Robert J. Morgan.

Weekend Chores?

As much as I just want to play on weekends, it always seems like it ends up being a "catch up" time. Today I went to fulfill a duty I agreed to do at my daughter's school, trying to overcome the list of obstacles that have popped up to block my efforts. Sigh ... as I sat at the table sorting and stapling, I found myself praying that I  would let God be the Lord of my chores. I needed Him to help turn my tasks back into worship. After all, didn't I volunteer in the first place so that I could serve and reach out and show love? I needed a fresh and godly perspective to make my work my worship. I could hear the Spirit whispering, "So whether you eat or drink or staple packets for the PTA or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God" 1 Cor. 10:31. (Embellishment is mine, NOT original ;)

The Fall CHAIN 2010

Will you be doing chores this weekend? Chores are just one of those necessary pieces of our days that we can't do without. With that in mind, our newest women's ministry newsletter focuses on how to let God be the Lord of our chores. If you need a break or a fresh perspective while tackling weekend laundry, paperwork, mail catch up, cleaning, or grocery shopping, click here to enjoy our newest CHAIN (Connect, Help, Attach, Inspire, Nurture).  Imagine that it is a double page that you fold in half, so it's 4 total pages.  We made this one fun and colorful, just to bring a little more splash and joy into the doing of our daily chores!


And after you make a dent in the weekend work, I pray you'll enjoy some time to rest and then worship, so you'll be refreshed for a new week ahead.

This is what a godly mom looks like

In September I've been considering key relationships in a woman's life. We've really just gotten started, but so far we've talked about how we relate to our God, our church, and our kids. Of course we've talked about husbands on Marriage Monday.

I wanted to reflect on parents and started thinking about what God's Word says ... they are to be obeyed, we leave them if we marry, they are to train children, and our lives are extended if we honor them ... & so much more. But then I received this tribute following the day when an 87 lady (I mean that = "lady") of our church family went to heaven. Martha's daughter reflected on her mom's life and graciously agreed to let me share her words. It says so beautifully what a godly mom looks like; this is the kind of mom I hope I am becoming. Let this be our reflection on being a parent God's way ...

My Tribute to Mom

For as long as I can remember, people have told me I look like my mom. I’m not sure I always appreciated it, but I love to hear it now! I take it as a real compliment and it inspires me. She was a beautiful woman—inside as well as outside and the best Godly role model I could ever have. If you’ve known, her for even a little time, I think you’ll understand.

Mom was first and above all things a lover of Jesus. He was her savior, her friend, her strength, her comfort, her reason for living. In the front of one of her favorite Bibles from years ago, The Living Bible, she wrote Acts 20:24. “For life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God’s mighty kindness and love.” And that’s what she did with her words, but primarily through the way she lived her life.

Mom was a lover of people, because Jesus is a lover of people. Her friendships were countless. Some spanned many years and some were very recent. She was quick to make friends, and her friends were young and old, near and far, from different cultures and similar backgrounds, those who knew Jesus and those who don’t yet know Him. Her heart and passion was that each one would come to know Him as she did. Her heart and her home were always open and they became a refuge for many. She was considered a second mom or adopted sister to more than I’ll ever know.

In recent days, when she could no longer get out and visit with friends, she took to calling and writing notes. I can’t tell you how many trips I took to the mailbox with cards and letters Mom had written—some to folks she’s kept up with for over 60 years!

Mom was an incredible prayer warrior. She fought many battles with her prayers, for those of us she knew and loved and for others she’s now meeting in heaven for the first time. If you’ve ever shared a concern or need with her, you can know she took that to her heavenly Father on your behalf. I’ve found prayer lists she’d written recently and many of your names are on them!

Mom loved God’s Word, and she never grew weary of reading it or hearing it taught. She would often share with us something new she had learned from her personal study or from a Bible teacher on the radio, at church or Bible study. She would always take notes, and I’ve found them everywhere! Lately, she told me she was frustrated in not being able to memorize a passage from Colossians 3 that she was working on. IT says, “As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear each other’s burdens showing mercy, because God has been merciful to you…and above all, put on love, which binds you together in perfect unity.” Dave and I were talking about that the other day…We don’t think she needed to memorize it—she lived it!

Knowing Mom, I know she wouldn’t like the attention she’s being given today. She wanted all the glory to go to her Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Her desire was that her life be a reflection of the One Who created her and lived within her. I’m confident she is now in His presence, face to face, and she has heard, “Well done, Martha, my good and faithful servant! Welcome Home!”

Does the Church need to awaken?

Wasn't the first time the word "church" was used was when Jesus spoke to Peter?

Matt. 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

The Church belongs to God, and nothing will overcome it. But this was not the first time people heard this word "church." The Greek word "eklesia" was actually used first in Athens, Greece to describe a meeting of citizens, individually responsible in the gathering. It was born in a society where a citizen's role was vital and well understood. Amazing, then, that Jesus said, "I will build MY church." This was a different kind of gathering from what people knew before; this was a gathering of citizens of heaven gathering for God's pleasure in His kingdom. This gathering is HIS. Wow!

In our 20+ years of serving in the Church, I have found 4 qualities that make a great church member:

Be Regular - people who are consistent to be part of the worship, the learning, the serving ... the Body life. There is no substitute for being present and involved. (Hebrews 10:24-26)

Be Responsible - people who are self feeders and grow independently, not expecting to be carried along on the spiritual shoulders of others. No one can be saved for me or grow for me. (1 Peter 2:2)

Be Respectful - people who pay attention to the authority of God's Word in their lives and the role of God's leaders in their lives. (1 Thess. 5:12-13)

Be Responsive - people who respond to what they learn about God by wanting to serve others and get the life saving gospel and its impact out to others. (Colossians 2:6-7)

We've been part of five churches since we were married. The church in America has been going through massive changes during those years. Chuck Swindoll says the Church has been "eroding." We've failed to be marked by the teaching, fellowship, worship, and prayer the first church was devoted to. People like Pastor Terry Jones in Florida, sponsoring the Burn a Koran Day, aren't helping to show the transforming power of God's love to the watching world. The Church surely needs an awakening.

TODAY I'm excited to share a new resource with you. I had the privilege of receiving a preview copy of Chuck Swindoll's newest book, released today, called the Church Awakening. This is a timely look at the organism that belongs to God and is the Bride for His Son, Jesus. Swindoll makes an honest evaluation of how the Church has changed and how it has suffered under postmodernism, saying it has eroded in its focus and practice. He considers the impact on the primary aim of the church: worship, and he reveals the distinctives of a contagious church. This book is insightful, scriptural, helpful, and direct.


This has been a challenging read, and I highly recommend it for serious believers in the church and, in particular, for pastors and leaders in the Body. Watch a short message from Pastor Swindoll here.

Let's be "awakened" as the Church of Christ, so we will be strong and blameless until He returns (1 Cor. 1:7-9). October 10th is Clergy Appreciation Sunday, and this would be an excellent book to give as a gift for your pastor. Or, read and respond to the Church Awakening as a citizen of the Church, also as a gift for your pastor. :)

Book Review ~ Voices Behind the Veil

Do you ever weep over what you read? This summer I read a book I pulled off my husband's bookshelf. I took it along to read in the car on the way to the beach, hoping to learn and understand Islamic women more. But as we drove, I wept. Before the summer is gone and before you pick out new books for your "gets dark early at night" collection, I want to share this title with you.

Voices Behind the Veil was compiled by a man who grew up as a devout Sunni Muslim. It is a collection of writings by Christian women ... journalists, missionaries, former Muslims. I DID learn, but my heart was so moved. In the first part of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus shared what we know as the "Beatitudes." Did you realize that they really build on each other? We have to be "poor in spirit" to come to know Christ as our Savior, and if we do then we will "mourn" the same things that grieve God's heart. The right response would be meekness, and so on and so on goes the flow of responses. You can read the whole passage here. As I read Voices, I felt compelled to mourn the things that God mourns.

Matthew 5:3-4

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

The writer of Voices has a perspective I can never claim, since he grew up in an Islamic home. Much of the first half of the book is devoted to developing knowledge about the Muslim faith, a faith which I really want to understand. As of October 2009 there were 1.57 billion Muslims in the world today, or 23% of the global population. These people live in 200 countries. Last year my daughter rode a bus home, seated by a very friendly girl who had just moved to our southern city; her parents came 1 mile away ... as Muslim missionaries.

Not only do the women writing help readers understand information and history, (such as the key women in Islamic history, the core texts in Islamic faith, and laws of the faith) but the women share personal accounts of how Islam looks in the lives of women. Chapters of personal testimony are included about daily life in specific countries that are Muslim majority nations, what it's like to be a daughter or wife in Islam, the challenges of reaching out to those of the Islamic faith, and how to pray for Islamic women.

It was no mistake that God drew my attention to read Voices when He did. Only a few weeks after learning and understanding and weeping as I read, Jeff and I were being served a meal while in Europe. The hosts seated guests next to someone in their language group. There were not many English speakers, but there was a family from a Muslim majority country who spoke English from their African country of origin. We were seated for lunch with the husband and wife and their daughter. My heart was overwhelmed, but God had prepared me through my reading to "see" them as a family and know what to talk about and how to reach out. As Jeff and I bowed our heads and prayed quietly over our lunch and then shared an hour of conversation with this precious family, I was so thankful to have heard the Voices Behind the Veil.

If you read earlier this week, you know I am giving away a copy of Vicki Courtney's 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter here. The beginning of school seems like a great time to give books away, (LOVE free books!) and I would love to add this one to your nightstand for the coming fall/winter season. Here's how you enter to win this one ...

Leave a comment or send me an email telling me one of these:

• What has been your experience with a woman of another faith?
• Do you feel like you know how to interact with a woman of another faith? Of Islam?
• What faiths are most represented where you live?

You may know Islam is growing faster than Christianity around the world today. It would be time well spent to listen to the Voices Behind the Veil and to be ready for those divine appointments when God may seat you beside a women who has not yet had the veil lifted from her eyes to know salvation is a free gift offered to her from a Heavenly Father who loves her and gave His own Son for her. The wonderful thing about mourning over what God mourns over is that He promises that one day, comfort is coming!

I will post the winner of the book on Monday in Marriage Mondays.

Looking forward to hearing from you,