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A Poppy in Remembrance Launch Day
It’s launch day for A Poppy in Remembrance. The word “launch” truly describes what it means for a book to be published for the first time. See how happy I look? Just as with a child, you send your...
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BTC Missionaries and Oswald Chambers
BTC Missionaries taught by Oswald Chambers filled the last Tuesday of the month posts in 2018. They also captured my interest while I wrote Mrs. Oswald Chambers. A sign marks the BTC They’re at the...
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Honeymoon Dictation & Oswald Chambers
They spent their honeymoon in America at camp meetings with others! Honeymoon dictation? Really Oswald? While researching the lives of Oswald and Biddy Chambers, I turned up the story of honeymoon...
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Night Bird Calling and Chambers
I read Cathy Gohlke’s new novel, Night Bird Calling, with great interest. Gohlke uses themes from My Utmost for His Highest as a catalyst for change in “No Creek,” North Carolina prior to World War...
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Friendship: Lettie & Biddy
“Did a friendship exist between Lettie Cowman and Biddy Chambers?” a writer asked me recently. “Sometimes when I read Streams in the Desert and My Utmost for His Highest, they seem to have similar...
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Streams in the Desert and How to Open Doors
How does a daily devotional open doors for ministry? By God at work, of course, but also by “going before” the author and establishing a Holy Spirit connection. At least, that seems to be what...
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Brother Andrew and My Utmost for His Highest
When Brother Andrew died in September 2022, I mourned with the rest of the world. I corresponded with him in 2016 while writing Mrs. Oswald Chambers. Through my research, I knew Andrew van der Bijl...
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Two Faith Building Devotionals for One Century
Two faith-building devotionals appeared in the last century that have never gone out of print. Lettie Cowman’s Streams in the Desert first appeared January 1, 1924. Oswald (or Biddy) Chamber’s My...
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How to be Significant like Biddy and Lettie
What does it mean to be significant? I spoke at a luncheon in Louisville on this topic recently: the Significance Luncheon. It’s designed for seniors, but it works for any age. As the Southeast...
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Why Write Bible Notes in your Bible?
Do you write Bible notes? As in, marking passages, or dating them, or simply writinga note. Why? Why not? It’s a long-standing tradition and has valuable results. Two of my favorite writers did it all...
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