Older married couple walking hand in hand toward a cross at sunrise, symbolizing God’s providence and eternal hope.
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Naomi: A Testament of God’s Providential Timing

Was it chance that brought Naomi and me together—or God’s providence? Looking back over 45 years of marriage, PKD, dialysis, faithful love, and loss, I can see how God prepared us for one another. Our story points beyond us to Jesus, who sustains us in love, grief, and eternal hope.
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Purpose: Embracing Your Unique Design in Life
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Purpose: Embracing Your Unique Design in Life

Our lives are not random accidents, but part of God’s greater kingdom plan. We are encouraged as believers to stop defining purpose merely through career success, recognition, or achievement and instead discover purpose through relationship with Jesus Christ. One of the strongest themes in the book is that God often uses even painful seasons—grief, disappointment, waiting, hardship, and uncertainty—to shape spiritual maturity and future ministry. Nothing surrendered to God is wasted.
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Are you a grandparent?
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Are you a grandparent?

What seeds of faith and hope are you planting for those who will follow? Legacy Coalition is here to encourage you and your church to minister to grandparents as they encourage and influence their grandchildren. Our desire is for grandparents to look beyond the pleasures of the retirement culture and invest in the lives of their grandchildren.  Our children and grandchildren hold the potential to change the world for eternity, just as those before us prayed for our paths. It starts with prayer and worship! Pray!
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Praying Through The Bible For Your Kids
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Nancy Guthrie -Praying Through The Bible For Your Kids

What we all want most for our children is not just happiness or success, but a deep and lasting relationship with God. As Nancy Guthrie’s devotions in “Praying through the Bible for your kids” remind us, our greatest hope is for our children’s hearts to be transformed by faith and their lives to reflect wisdom, grace, and spiritual growth. Even in moments of heartbreak or sorrow, we can find comfort in entrusting our kids to God, trusting His promises to bring healing and strength that lasts for eternity.
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Christianity and Heaven: Edwin W. Lutzer and Randy Alcorn.
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Christianity and Heaven: Edwin W. Lutzer and Randy Alcorn.

The picture here and at end of post. sums up Naomi's life and what believers can expect. Both Edwin W. Lutzer and Randy Alcorn offer hopeful and comforting visions of the afterlife for believers. Their teachings affirm that death is not the end, but a transition into a conscious, joyful existence with Christ. While some mysteries remain, their perspectives encourage faith in God's promises and the assurance that loved ones like Naomi are at peace, fully alive in the presence of the Lord. For those who grieve, these beliefs offer hope, comfort, and a renewed anticipation of reunion in God's eternal kingdom. I can only imagine! Can you?
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Just a Simple Greeting Card
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Just a Simple Greeting Card

Sending a greeting card shows the significant impact of seemingly small, faithful acts of kindness and encourages faithfulness in serving others. Paul wrote “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” Galatians 6:9 (NLT). He also wrote to the Christians in Corinth “Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” I Corinthians 15:58 (NIV).
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Historic family portrait of Ferdinand C. Weyland, Helen Oppenheimer Weyland, and their children, part of Naomi Dassow’s faith heritage.
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Helen Oppenheimer And Her Journey to America

The author delves into the captivating history of Helen Oppenheimer, his wife Naomi's grandmother who was a Jewish woman set to marry a Jewish lawyer in New York but ended up meeting and subsequently marrying Ferdinand Weyland, a future pastor. The author grapples with themes of fate, coincidence, and divine providence while uncovering Helen's journey to America, her life with Ferdinand, and her conversion to Christianity..
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Special young ladies from the Baja. Foundation For His Ministry
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Mission Trips

"In 1966 we made our unforgettable trip to the then remote desert of the Baja Peninsula. There, in the dark of night, we came upon some old uninhabited adobe ruins. We heard the voices of little children where there were  no children. God gave us a vision of a home for children, a great harvest of souls for the kingdom of God, and a Bible institute like the one I attended as a young woman."
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Healing The Wounded Spirit
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Healing The Wounded Spirit

The authors begin with exploring our very beginning, coming out of the womb and needing healing. Pregnancy lasts some 9 months and alot happens in and to the family during that time which effect the unborn baby! They start with the subject of adoption, but everything they write about applies to all of us, adopted or not. See end of post for a graphic presentation of the subject of healing of a wounded spirit. The book analyses incarnational Wounds and Sins such as Utero Encounters, wounds from feeling rejected, and Anorexia, Dyslexiia and child abuse. It goes on to explore Sicknesses and Sinful Conditions of the Spirit, such as Depression and Spiritual Imprisonment. Then on to Spiritual Sins, such as Occult Involvement, Spiritual Adultery and Idolatry. In conclusion, it deals with Things Which Impinge Upon and Wound Our Spirits, such as Generational Sin, Grief, Frustration and loss and Dwelling Within a Sinful Group.
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How Involved is God in the Details of Your Life?
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How Involved is God in the Details of Your Life?

There's no such thing as luck, coincidence or chance. Every step you take is planned by God. even the most seemingly minuscule events are governed by him. Just because something seems small and incidental to you doesn't mean that God isn't working behind the scenes. This is the echo of providence -God's mysterious hand working through everything."
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