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Beating Yourself Up: Humility or Idolatry?

Denise Miller Holmes | March 31, 2009

Savvy Article #0907
In our weakness, He is strong. In our inaction, He is forgotten.
Sometimes, in assessing myself, I run into a wad of insecurities. I have been experiencing this recently as I try to branch out and do new things. It’s as if everything inside is betting I’ll fail. You have no skill for that [...]

LOL with God

Denise Miller Holmes | March 23, 2009

Savvy Article #0906
It’s a good thing I’ve changed, or I would have felt guilty.
Along with my early ideas that God is lofty (see: Hearing God’s Voice), I also used to think that God is serious, and therefore I shouldn’t laugh while praying.

The Money Challenge: Too Much or Too Little?

Denise Miller Holmes | March 16, 2009

Savvy Article #0905
Arguments reigned whenever a certain pastor and his wife brought up the subject of wealth.  They were adamant that any Christian who was rich was materialistic.  We disagreed.

Listening (a.k.a. Death to Taco Sauce, or, Mr. Abernathay, Your Shoes Are Ready)

Denise Miller Holmes | March 9, 2009

Savvy Article #0904
Ahhh… the rewards of listening.
Piles of taco-sauce packets litter my pantry.  I only ask for “two mild” packets when I order, but I get ten packets instead.  I keep them, thinking I’ll use them, but in Denver they dry up and I find myself asking again for “two mild” packets and AGAIN I [...]

Hearing God’s Voice (a.k.a. God’s Potty Talk)

Denise Miller Holmes | March 1, 2009

Savvy Article #0903
Lightning and earthquakes, a throne in the heavens: God always seems so lofty in Scriptures. In my early walk with God, even when I read that Jesus didn’t take showers and slept with a rock for a pillow, that he ate fish for breakfast and had nowhere to live, that his feet were [...]