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Merry Christmas “Just So”
By Rebecca Hill This is the first guest post I am hosting on Raggle-Taggle. The author is Rebecca Hill, a dear friend and community-mate, who takes what life throws at her and throws it right back with...
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Shine for the Hurting
A few months ago I was a contributor to a blog series, “31 Days of Letting Your Lil Light Shine,” for Trina Cress’s blog, Beginner Beans. I wrote about building community. Trina introduced my post...
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Again
Again. That was the word for Five Minute Friday. I was stumped that day. By the afternoon I had an idea. The word reminded me of the Israelites during Nehemiah’s time. I bookmarked the passage. I let...
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I Believe God is For Me
It’s been one month since I chose Believe for my One Word for the year. I’m linking up with a few good friends to keep us accountable to living out our word. I’m part of a listening group. There are...
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Writing to God on Ash Wednesday
Poem by Rachel G. Hackenberg One of my pastors, Neil Taylor, gave me a book and “suggested” I go through it for Lent. I’m always up for a challenge, for the first 32.5 minutes, then I get bored....
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Linking Up with Influential Women
A few weeks ago, Nadine had a fabulous idea to create a linkup to help get to know the ALL the women of the Influence Network. We want to meet and build community with our influential women. To...
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Home
It’s Friday night. Seda is on the other laptop. Phoenix is on the floor eating panda cookies and watching Regular Show. Seda and I mirror each other, laptops on laps, feet up, slouching on the couch....
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The Good Catastrophe
If you would rather listen than read, click here. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a...
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The God of the Poor
I’m no stranger to poverty, having spent the first five years of my life in shady Philadelphia neighborhoods with an alcoholic mother who was nearly destitute. My older brothers did what they had to...
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For Tim & Becky On Their Wedding Day
Tim and Becky love and worship and serve a God who rescues, redeems, and restores. He longs for broken hearts to be mended, for the lonely to be set in families, and for our losses to become our...
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Wait with Hope
Psalm 130 My Soul Waits for the Lord A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord,...
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The Advent of Hope
This is a re-post from the same time in 2012. My church, Jesus People USA, created an Advent spoken-word video series last year. I was given the word hope, which you will find slightly humorous if...
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One Word 2014: Create
My one word for 2013 was Believe. This is what I wrote in last year’s post: I realized it was actually a pattern in my life, that there were different levels of unbelief I had been contending with for...
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31 Days of Community: Coming Clean
This is part of a series on my experience living in an intentional Christian community, Jesus People USA. I had lived in Christian homes, gone to Christian camp, attended Christian school, youth...
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Reaching Out
31 Days of Community Day 5 When I was a teen, my mom would take my sister and me to a church that had a soup kitchen. We would help serve the food and clean up. Sometimes we would talk to the people....
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Reaching In
31 Days of Community Day 6 I entered community having experienced some degree of discipleship; my youth group leader my senior year of high school, a small-group leader in college, and social workers...
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Welcoming In
31 Days of Community Day 7 Henri Nouwen, in his book, Reaching Out, wrote that for most of us, hospitality conjures up images of “tea parties, bland conversation, and a general atmosphere of...
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Leading Others
Our house. 31 Days of Community Day 9 By the time I joined Jesus People, I had my fair share of tangles with leadership of all kinds; parents, teachers, principals, youth leaders, coaches, bosses,...
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