Addictions: The Abusive Relationship with God-Substitutes
“You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me” (Exodus 20:3) I come from a family where several members struggled with an addiction to alcohol....
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The Steadfast Butterfly
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by Kim Ford
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jan 24, 2023
- 4 min
Painful Pruning
Galatians 5:22,23a “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jan 17, 2023
- 5 min
Faith, Football, and the Final Game
#DamarHamlin #FootballFan #NFL&HighSchoolFootball #FinalGame If you or a family member is a football fan, you likely either saw or heard...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jan 10, 2023
- 4 min
Prison of Pride
“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and,...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jan 4, 2023
- 5 min
Justice, Mercy, and Me
James 2:13 “There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Dec 16, 2022
- 5 min
Type 1 or Type 2 Christmas?
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, born the King of Angels O come,...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Dec 6, 2022
- 5 min
Jesus' Mother Leads by Example
#MaryLeadsByExample #TheMagnifcat Luke 1:30-33 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! You will...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Sep 28, 2022
- 4 min
Finding True Rest
Last December the women in our family had a special day of pulling aside to slow down before Christmas to relax and enjoy time together....
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Sep 22, 2022
- 5 min
Accepting the Seasons
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Sep 13, 2022
- 4 min
God is in the Details
“Give all your worries and cares to God for He cares about you.” I Peter 5:7 (NLT) Longer passages that support the truth that God cares...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Sep 7, 2022
- 4 min
Blessing: An Interference by God in our Lives
I remember as a child sitting in a special church session listening to a Greek-American Bible scholar and author named Spiros Zodhiates....
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Aug 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Rains Came Down
Back in June we had day after day of sunshine and warm weather here in the Mat-Su Valley. We Alaskans were almost overwhelmed by it after...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Aug 24, 2022
- 5 min
Doing All the Things
(The following story and photo are shared with permission from my daughter and her husband) “I can do all things through Christ who...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Aug 17, 2022
- 5 min
Fear vs. My Faith
My family has joked about me needing a babysitter when no one else is going to be home overnight. The truth is, I have needed the...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
Known and loved by God in the Womb and Beyond
Psalm 139: 13-18 “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Aug 6, 2022
- 4 min
Overlooking Small Offenses
Proverbs 19:11 “A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense” --------------- Proverbs 17:9 Whoever...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jul 26, 2022
- 5 min
Forgive and Remember
It’s not possible to “forgive and forget”. The intent of the saying might be better stated as follows: “once you choose to forgive, don’t...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
He Knows Me by Name
There has been so much talk in the past few days about names and changing names of long-time events here in the Valley. It’s been a big...
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jul 20, 2022
- 5 min
The Reality of Evil
In celebrating our freedom this past 4th of July we were reminded of the oppression of evil that can infiltrate our current experience....
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The Steadfast Butterfly
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
Who is God? NOT ME!
Who is God? NOT ME! In 1985, I was 22 (for my era readers, cue the Jackson Brown song: “Runnin’ on Empty”). I had just tossed my college...
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The Steadfast Butterfly by Kim Ford
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