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The Secret of Accessing God’s Power in our Daily Lives

Anita Mathias — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:53:14 +0000

The phoenix, which rose out of the ashes of his old body, is a symbol of Christ in traditional iconography. It could also be a symbol of the power of prayer. Numerous times in my life, when I have been stuck, prayer–-intense, deep, desperate prayer–-has changed my circumstances. Has reversed the plot. It is, in […]

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In Which I Tell You about a Weighty Battle

Anita Mathias — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:14:29 +0000

Obesity Influences Have you had “one step forward, one and half step backward” struggles, otherwise known as the dread vicious circle? I am delighted to say that, at the moment, I do not have any vicious circles in my life—those nightmare phases of life where everything you do has unintended negative consequences. You know: You […]

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In Which Stars Make News Viral, and We Can Trust our PR to Him

Anita Mathias — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:24:16 +0000

His birth could not have been more humble, more anonymous–in a manger, for there was no room at the inn. Of their social network, only Elizabeth, Mary’s elderly cousin, confined by pregnancy, and married to the priest Zechariah who was temporarily dumb, had been told. But everything was in the hands of God who loved […]

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In which Birds Teach us Not to Worry

Anita Mathias — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:33:33 +0000

We can worship God in church, and we can worship God while walking through the spectacular natural world he made, which is full of clues to his character. The heavens declare God’s glory, without words. Trees, the ocean, the day and the seasons tell of a God who loves beauty, who made all things well, […]

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From Babel to Pentecost: God Thwarts Self-Sufficiency Which Excludes Him (but Blesses Leaning)

Anita Mathias — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:11:40 +0000

Genesis 11 So men decide to build a ziggurat, “with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves.” (Gen. 11:4) And God thwarts their ambition. Their confident, well-coordinated, carefully-worked-out, imaginative, forward-looking plans. If they continued to function in this way, these steady, methodical visionaries, making bricks, baking […]

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Writing by Relying on the Lord

Anita Mathias — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:15:00 +0000

“Moses, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” The LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, […]

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