All Articles by Patricia Holbrook

Visit Hester's Blog: Hester's Heart. Read more about Hester and her ministry at the end of the devotional. Dying to Live! Philippians 3:10-11 (NIV 1984) "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."  Jesus is in the business of bringing death to life.  He does it physically; He does it spiritually.  He did it with Lazarus (John Continue Reading

  “Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16 (NASB) I need to unplug. It seems as if my brain is on constant drive. My feet hit the floor in the morning and my eyes have not quite adjusted to the light before I hit the home button of my smart phone. The screen glares at me as if to say: “Take a breath, woman. I’ll be here after breakfast. You are not the President.” I cannot stop at a traffic Continue Reading

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Reading Patricia’s post on “Shifting the Praise Paradigm” made my mind drift to an event that years ago taught me a similar lesson as I watched a woman struck by tragedy live out her praise in a way I could never imagine… A chill swept through my body as I listened to my friend’s voice on the other end of the phone.  Ozzie, a young man in our church’s youth group, had died in a tragic fall while at a youth retreat, and the youth ,including my son, would be coming home early.    Questions Continue Reading

  Passage Ephesians 4:17-32Key Verse:"and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth." v. 24 (NASB) I stood inside my closet, looking at the beautiful new dress hanging there. My dad and I had gone shopping for my birthday and we chose it together. The dress was gorgeous and I could not wait to put it on. In fact, it did not hang in the closet for long: that was my outfit to church that following Sunday. Everybody loves new Continue Reading

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