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ON YOUR MARK! (GET SET, GO!)

This is part 6 of a 7-part series on Personal Retreats that Brenda wrote for Everyone a Missionary in 2007. We also ran this series in 2016.Click here if you would like to start at the beginning of the series. Jesus’ getaway …

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February Retreats

Sign up today for a Vantage Point Retreat click (https://runhardrestwell.org/retreat/) and then savor this thought . . . There is a holiness to the moment in time that we call now. I think we sometimes forget that …

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Christmas Returns

Each December God’s people return. We return to The Story. We revisit the manger. Tucked into Luke 8 is an account of Jesus returning to a seaside community where he frequently gathered to teach, reach, help, and …

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A Thanksgiving Heart to Heart

Gratitude alters intimate relationships. It is a life-giving foundation. It says, in neon lights, “I see you. I recognize who you are and how I am blessed by your life and your love!” Entitlement is ugly. Indifference …

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Praying With Play-dough

My heart is heavy, heavy. Dear, precious people I know and love are bearing impossible pain, impossible loss, and searing unknowns. I ache with them. I pray for them—and with them, but I am finding words sometimes …

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The Ring and Robe Await!

How low can you go? For many of us, it can be very low, then some. We are good people. High capacity. But something is wrong. When we are out of alignment in some area – living …

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Kingdom Work is Team Work!

Gifts and special donations came in to Run Hard. Rest Well. (RHRW) this fall totaling more than $18,000. Thank you. Thank you for your prayers! Thank you for your support. Together we can bring God’s design for …

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Prayer Closets and Rock Climbing

Last month I spent 16 days in an unfamiliar hospital 3 hours from our home with my 21-year old son, Joe. Joe was born with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. With 20 surgeries and more than 200 nights …

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