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Christine Yount Jones

How God Says My Name

We’ve been having work done on our house (to try to sell it!). And it’s been interesting to listen to the workers as they come in and out. Ray noticed that one crew really enjoyed each other as they joked and worked–very hard. When…

God’s Good and Perfect Will

Be careful what you ask for, people say…God just might give it to you. An example of this kind of thinking is when people say, “Don’t pray for patience because God will give you trying things to teach you patience.” Is that God&#8217…

5 Gifts Trials Give Us

  Tough times humble us. They teach us that we’re not the center of the world. That everything doesn’t go our way. That we don’t “win” all the time. But tough times also give us treasured gifts that could never come to…