Brown Sugar Toast
writings from Christa Threlfall
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Is Bible Study a Discipline or Delight?
“Bible study is not a discipline; it’s a delight.” A while ago, I came across a social media post with the above caption and it made me think: Is Bible study a discipline or a delight? Maybe you, like me, have been admonished not to read your Bible out of a sense of discipline or…
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Sacrificing Holiness for Authenticity
It was Saturday morning. Driving home from an early morning run, I stopped by a yard sale and snagged the classic game of Battleship for the low, low price of $1. I had fond memories of playing this game in elementary school and looked forward to wowing my family with my incredible skills. Only that’s…
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Take Time to Build
This past weekend, my sisters and I took time to build our relationship with God and each other. It was refreshing, instructive, encouraging, hilarious, and convicting: all in less than two days. Before my sister, Sarah returned from the Philippines, we talked about attending a conference together. But as we looked at the conferences available…
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Stop Looking for the Perfect Friend
“I think you have a skewed view of friendship.” These words came from my husband after I had just bemoaned to him for the umpteenth time about my friendship struggles. I received his words in the best possible way, of course, and replied, “You don’t understand. You’ve always had a lot of good friends.” I…
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Maybe It’s Not an Obstacle
What if your difficult events today are actually not obstacles, but arrows pointing you back to Jesus? What if they’re not standing in the way of your success for today, but instead reminding you to come to the One who defines true success? What if God actually put those events in your life to remind…
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To Live is Christa
I really want to be like Jesus and Paul. I want to be able to say, “For me to live is Christ!” But too often, my song is “For me to live is Christa.”
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My Marriage Is Not Affair Proof
Google “How to Affair Proof Your Marriage” and you’ll end up with a slew of options, ranging in helpfulness from “Commit to honest, open communication” to “Watch out for that second or third cocktail.” My husband and I just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary and while we don’t claim to have marriage figured out, there is…
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Speak Life: how to deal when your children fight
What do you do when your children break out in a monumental war with each other? Here’s what I’ve been doing lately, based out of a verse from Proverbs…
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Stop Waiting to Praise
The other day, I found myself thinking ahead to next year. Next May, to be exact. In the Lord’s will, my husband will graduate with his PhD in approximately 12 months. (Not that anyone is counting, of course. BUT WE ALL ARE.) As I thought about what an incredible time that will be, I imagined…
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One Year Ago Today: 3 lessons I learned when my water broke at 20 weeks
3 lessons I learned when my water broke at 20 weeks…
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I Can Do It All
I can do it all. And if you read my post entitled “I Can’t Do It All,” you can now be assured that I’ve completely lost my mind. Allow me to explain. I’ve had these posts planned (in my head, at least) for months. And I wanted to do them back to back. In fact,…
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One Daily Habit That’s Changing My Perspective
I’ve started a daily habit that is totally changing my perspective. It takes less than 5 minutes and I do it twice a day – as soon as I wake and before I fall asleep. Wanna know what it is? I thank God. In the morning, I thank Him for the night – sometimes quite…
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