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Ashley Crider Update Day 164

Today marks the 164th day since Ashley collapsed at the office. We’re also coming up on the 6th month mark. Although the most intense portion of this trial has passed, the ICU, the surgeries, IV’s, machines and daily inpatient rehab…. we still find ourselves battling in faith. God continues to give us strength and grace […]

Appropriating the Promises for our Lives

When I get ready to write this column every month, I usually do a search through my documents to see if I have recently written something season specific or something like that in an effort to avoid repeating myself. So I typed in “October”, and came across this from last year and thought, “you know […]

Ashley Crider Update Day 133

Today we’re wrapping up day 133 of our faith and healing journey. It’s crazy to think that we’ve been home from the hospital for 3 WEEKS already!! First an foremost, as always, thank you so much for your prayers and support! Also, a huge THANK YOU to our Living Word church family for bringing meals […]

Can You Imagine?

When you read the Gospels, do you ever try to imagine yourself in the scene, listening to Jesus and the others speak, watching mannerisms and so forth? The Word of God is powerful, and just reading it, meditating on it, and applying it, is life changing. But something is lost in translation. What I mean […]

Ashley Crider Update Day 111

Today is the day! Today is discharge day. As I write this we’re wrapping up our last breakfast here at the hospital. It has been a very busy couple of weeks. We’ve had home evaluations, school/sports starting for the kids, and a work day at the house to begin getting ready to return home. During […]