Author: Nancy C. Williams
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The Privileged Life: Finding Confidence When the Earth Shifts
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) I love walking on a beach, watching crabs skittering about, seeing the landscape change before my eyes as the tides ebb and flow. When I stick my feet, though, into the waves at the edge, I feel the surface moving—shifting, eroding, sucking all support out from under me…taking me…
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The Privileged Life: Worthless and Unloved…or Worthy and Loved?
“…that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge….” Ephesians 3:17-19a Shuffled in with other old documents at our home is a 1908 stock certificate.…
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The Privileged Life: Love that Lasts
“The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love….’” (Jeremiah 31:3a) A few years ago, my beloved and I were roped into serving as contestants for a homemade version of “The Newlywed Game” in front of a crowd of friends. Even though we’d been married nearly three decades at that point, we were…
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The Privileged Life: 11 Christian Women Bloggers to Follow in 2022
“When they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.” Acts 15:31 In the mornings when I open my email inbox, I shove aside the spam to open the little “jewel boxes” waiting for me. I’m referring to blogs I receive from a number of Christian writers, and they never fail to bring joy, conviction,…
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The Privileged Life: When It’s Time to Leave the Fence
“I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” (Psalm 139:14) Fences are good…as long as you’re on one side of them. Good fences, as poet Robert Frost quoted, “make good neighbors.”* They discourage trespassing, keep livestock enclosed, and even protect us from ourselves. Fences, however, were never meant…
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