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Hello friend,

I hope you can find a few moments to spend with me this weekend. Although I would prefer to sit with each of you individually, I am sharing my heart through this newsletter and consider you friends and family. Isn't it awesome to know that believers all over the world have the most important thing in common - Christ - and that we are forever brothers and sisters in the family of God? For the time you spend here, I hope you can feel me encouraging you from afar to hold tight to your faith and keep pursuing your relationship with God. For better or worse, you are stuck with me for eternity, so you might as well get to know me. :) I would love to hear back through email to connect with you personally.

I am in the middle of an intense book writing program, and I would appreciate your prayers for God to open whatever doors He wants out of this experience. No matter what the outcome, I am growing in faith and understanding through the study of God's word, so it will be worth it!

As always, the purpose of investing time in this monthly newsletter is to encourage, teach, and grow together as imitators of Christ. Hopefully, we can cheer one another on to good works through the things shared here; not through burdensome rituals or guilt-inducing words, but through growing to love, desire, and understand truth. For it is in recognizing the beauty of grace and truth that we are compelled to serve in greater ways.

As we learn to grow in grace and flourish in our relationship with God and others, we find joy. Joy in living. Joy in giving. And joy in filling our role in the body of Christ. As always, I pray that you will find something in this issue that increases your joy and grows your faith.

Encouraging you to persevere,

Terri

In case you missed it, here are some links to my latest posts!

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Favorite Things This Month:

Encouraging Read:

TheStruggleIsReal
This is a very practical, truthful, yet hopeful book on the reality of Christian living in a broken world. Loved it! I laughed so hard at the "perm" story as my mom did some home perms on me that went awry. lol

"We live in a world that often feels harder than we think it should be. And so it can be easy to believe the stories we tell ourselves―that we’re doing it wrong, that we’ll be stuck in this place forever, that God doesn’t love us. We struggle to practice gratitude, to make godly choices, and to live our daily lives with confidence and contentment. So what can we do?

Join popular Bible teacher and counselor Nicole Unice to discover why the struggle is real . . . and what to do about it. Nicole offers practical tools to help you navigate the daily ups and downs, and ways to rewrite your struggle into a new, God-centered life story. The Struggle Is Real is an invitation to take the hard, hurtful, and confusing moments and turn them into opportunities to grow in wisdom, strength, and joy."

New Music:

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Monique Terez
I was introduced to Monique's song, Your Love, through Instagram, and it is beautiful!

Life, Repurposed Project!

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You’ll find comfort, inspiration, and wisdom in these 34 stories from women just like you. Every encouraging account shows hope and renewed faith as they have come through trials and tough times, including family struggles, infertility, health challenges, doubt, fear, human trafficking, depression, heartbreak, loss, and more.

You can order it from Amazon here! Or, ask me for a copy - $14.99.
"But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13b-14
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Subscriber Spotlight!

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My name is Megan Evans and I live in Tennessee with my husband and our 3 teenaged children. I currently spend my days writing and serving as women’s ministry director at Living Hope Baptist Church. Weekly I enjoy leading women & writing weekly devotionals with my pastors and staff. I can also be found digging in my garden, reading, or snuggled up on the couch with my family for a weekend movie night. I blog at www.unhurrymyheart.com where I write about finding God in each busy day. I fluently speak the language of a busy heart and translate God’s call for women everywhere to un-hurry their heart and learn to still before the Lord.

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Moments of Grace from readers:

  • A lawn mower that had quit but restarted right before the rain came!
  • Dinner with all their family at one table!
  • Reading through the Bible in a year!
  • A family member coming to Christ!
  • Winning the book giveaway!
  • Each and everyone of you that takes time to read this each month and encourage me to keep writing!
My youngest sister, Amy, is making the most beautiful rope baskets. I visited her book at the Siloam Springs Farmer's Market and bought two. Click the image to check it out!
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Links to other writers and articles worth sharing!


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Encouraging Good Work in the World:

  • High Street Church has a ministry called One Sole Purpose that exists for the purpose of restoring hope and God-given dignity by providing basic necessities, like shoes, to those currently in need.
  • Consider donating to the Destiny Rescue Ministry as they seek to rescue children from the sex slave industry. Let's be moved with compassion through donating!
If you missed any previous newsletters and want to check them out, you can go to the member archive and view past issues. The archive also holds the Psalm 119 study, Marriage study, 5 Principles for Spiritual Growth printable, and Hebrews 10 lesson. If you find anything here that you think would encourage someone else, please consider sharing and inviting them to subscribe. If you read an article on the blog you want to share, just click the social media icons on the right hand corner! This is a great way to support me and hopefully help others!
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A final note of encouragement:

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" - Romans 8:31

2021 may have many unknowns, but knowing God is with us gives us the strength to have hope for the future. His plans are good, and we can trust Him with our future.

If you need prayer, please send me a message, and I will be more than happy to intercede on your behalf.
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