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Writing Update: Closer

Paula Wiseman | February 19, 2010

For those of you who have been with me on this writing journey, we took a very significant step forward. I got the critique back on Contingency and the comments were extremely encouraging. (Thanks to J.J. Hebert of Mindstir Media for his help. He gave me page-by-page comments and a summary report, plus he was [...]

Challenges

Paula Wiseman | February 5, 2010

Jesus had some real challenges in His ministry. We tend to think because He was God that everything clicked along smoothly. Everything DID click along according to plan, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was smooth. He said we shouldn’t expect any better treatment than He got.  Reading Mark 3 this morning, I saw a [...]

Vacationing with God

Paula Wiseman | July 9, 2009

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I am back from the most unique vacation I have ever been on. I went to the beach. (My favorite place- Any beach will do as long as there is sun, sand and ocean.) But I went alone. No computer, and absolutely nothing I ‘needed’ to work on. Just me, some [...]

Storm Takeaways

Paula Wiseman | June 22, 2009

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Yesterday in Sunday school, my kids and I looked at Mark 4:35-41, in which Jesus calms a storm on the sea of Galilee. We had an interesting mix as the youth teacher was paged at the last minute so I had a range from 6-16, but the kids have had me for a [...]

Great Power, Great Responsibility

Paula Wiseman | June 8, 2009

Church camp begins today for the 3rd-8th graders, and we have a series of lessons titled “I Am That Hero” stressing to the kids that God has empowered them for a very important mission- carrying out the gospel. Today we’re using Spiderman’s famous tagline- With great power, comes great responsibility. Most of us don’t consider [...]