Alison is the most animated, joyful, crazy (in a good way) woman I’ve ever known. She IS the party, and for her the party is all about Jesus. She’d been serving as a missionary in North Africa for three years when she met Brian at a wedding back stateside, and a slooooow romance began to…
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40:40 Day 30
Pramana had been born into a people group with a population of twenty-four million. In his people group, there were only three known followers of Jesus, and no church. The only religion that he had ever practiced or known while growing up had been a sort of folk Islam. Pramana knew the Quran by rote….
40:40 Day 26
I felt completely discouraged. The Bible study Heather and I had been leading together was a flop. We had been so excited to provide a place for women from our job to come and learn about Jesus, but attendance was sporadic at best and it usually ended up being just us and our friend Tiffany,…
40:40 Day 17
I lost a baby when I was just twenty-three years old. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until I miscarried. At the hospital they confirmed what was happening, and then once everything seemed okay they sent me home. My boyfriend at the time was less than supportive, and as time went on I cried…
40:40 Day 15
Pampered Chef Parties made me nervous. Mostly because I was the one selling it. I’d cook in front of groups of women twice my age who had been using Pampered Chef since I was in elementary school and try to act like I knew what I was doing. I did love the products, but apart…
40:40 Day 14
I’m really not the most responsible car owner. I get my oil changed maybe once a year, and I would almost definitely electrocute myself if I tried to use jumper cables. God has shown up many times when it comes to my car. I guess he knows what’s beyond my limitations! Just last year, at…
40:40 Day 13
Jesus often comes to Muslims in dreams. In one story, a missionary in a Muslim country recounts being greeted on the tarmac in a Middle Eastern country by a man who insisted they must talk. In spite of misgivings,the missionary agreed and they went to a private place where the man explained that a Shining…
40:40 Day 12
God speaks to me through license plates. Not all the time, mind you, but when he does it’s clear and so specific that I can’t believe otherwise. Take, for example, the time I was praying in my car, asking God to let me be completely open and without any pretense before him, laid bare in…
40:40 Day 11
Richmond, from what I’d seen on a weekend trip, was nothing more than a big Manassas. Dingy auto shops and chain restaurants punctuated long sentences of nondescript strip malls on both sides of Broad Street. Couldn’t I know someone in Miami? A fresh start should be exciting, and not contain the country’s largest concentration of…
40:40 Day 9
God wants to be part of our story. Actually, he’s invited us to be part of his story, but many people choose to believe he’s not there, can’t see, doesn’t care. He is there. He sees. He cares. I was planning to move in a couple months. Living on my own, while wonderful for hosting…
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