Category: 2016

God Weaving the Threads of Our Lives into the Tapestry of His Purpose

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Ramadan: What Are You Cooking For Iftar?

What are you cooking tonight to break the fast?  Are you making Qatayef this Ramadan? This question still makes Fatima uncomfortable.  How should she answer her neighbors since she no longer cooks big Ramadan meals? Her discomfort with these conversations stems from the horror she felt on the day her new husband, Yusif told her…
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Ramadan: Dreams and Visions

God who never sleeps or slumbers, is hard at work in the North Africa – Middle East region. He uses many unique and diverse ways to get our attention.  One such way was predicted in the Old Testament book of Joel. “…I will pour out my Spirit on everyone: your sons and daughters will proclaim…
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How To Make A Baby’s Birth A New Beginning

Even fully clothed, she weighs less than any baby doll in my granddaughters room.  Her head is not any larger than my fist and it is covered in thick, dark woolly hair. As I gaze into her expression-filled eyes, my tears run unhindered down my cheeks like spring rain in the dessert.  It is a wonder…
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How to Join Muslims In Prayer During Ramadan

As sunset, Sha’ban, the 8th month of the Islamic calendar (June 5th 2016 on the Gregorian Calendar), will end and Ramadan will begin.  Many Muslims have already started fasting and praying.  With hopeful hearts, looking to the heavens in eager anticipation of a crescent moon, they faithfully pray for a miracle! In the book of…
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