Cathy Porter

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Again and Again, God Makes the Way

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Again and Again, God Makes the Way

When our ideas of ‘the plan’ look like they have fallen in a heap, new plans are coming into view. When we feel everything has shut down, God is as full of life and newness as He always has been. He works with impossibilities, He brings life out of death and makes a way where there is no way.

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The Confidence of Youth

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The Confidence of Youth

I wonder when the confidence of youth slips through our fingers, and we find ourselves so caught up in the worrying or embarrassing ‘what ifs’ that we forget the amazing, unexpected, wonderful ‘what ifs,’ the very ones God specializes in!

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God's Answer to Mum Guilt

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God's Answer to Mum Guilt

There’s always something we can feel guilty about as a Mum. The world around me can make me feel I ought to be and need to be super-Mum. But in the midst of the mundane, God is for me, encouraging me on, loving the very best out of me.

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Tell Me The Old, Old Story

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Tell Me The Old, Old Story

Telling stories of God’s ongoing faithfulness, of the people of God’s ongoing adventures with Him is important in our family life. The faith we have is not in a God who worked powerfully once upon a time in the past, but in a God who is living and active through the ages and today.

Shaped by Limitations and Giftedness

Shaped by Limitations and Giftedness

We so often focus on the limitations in our life. We can feel these limitations keenly, perhaps especially as our friends and their children reach milestones. And there is truth in these limitations: there are many things my family will always struggle with that others don’t. We are shaped by limitations. But it is also true that we are shaped by unique giftedness, strengths, talents and abilities. We are shaped by the Creator with purpose.