I am endlessly nosey about people’s marriages. I love to know what works and what doesn’t and find it so fascinating how some of the strangest personality combinations come together in the most seamless unions. To celebrate ReCAST’s marriage retreat, I wrote a few nosey questions and asked some couples to respond. Here is a…
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Today is the day of love. St. Valentine, the patron saint of love, called up Hallmark and they arrived at a marketing deal. Thus began the annual cycles of profits for all manufacturers of heart shaped containers, chocolatiers, florist, card makers, and writers of short quips to put on those terrible tasting candy hearts…
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The Arrogant Exposed
I feel like God works on me in specific seasons and cycles. Last year, I would’ve called the the year of prayer. My prayer life increased and I have made a more concerted effort to be mindful of God throughout the day as well as spending some more concerted effort at a prayer time…
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I am grateful for a furnace. My home is warmer than the weather outside. It only takes a shift in the weather to remind us just how little we actually are in control of our daily lives. The winds pick up, or the temperature plummets, or the water rises . . . And our…
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Without Shame
By Becky Gilson “So, what do we actually do?” I asked the other women, circled up in a quiet, vaguely teenage smelling room in the back corner of ReCAST Church. We were meeting to plan for the future of women’s ministry at ReCAST. Let me tell you what I actually asking, in the raw recesses…
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