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Bodies-in-Bloom
‘The desert…will blossom’ (Is. 35:1).  Between a garden profuse with exotically colored peonies and a houseful of saints celebrating...

Andrew Comiskey
May 262 min read
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So Far
Amanda and Rich invited us into their relationship last year when they married. Today they update us on their life together. Looking...
Amanda and Rich Dennis
May 193 min read
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Early Spring
While the Midwest froze, Desert Stream glimpsed an early Spring at our Living Waters Training in London last week. Seeds sown and tended...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 242 min read
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Hope for Becoming Holy Family
Ania and I just celebrated our second wedding anniversary on December 17. Freed (respectively) from the domination of sexual abuse and...

Marco Casanova
Dec 29, 20242 min read
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Aliens in America: Day 27
Bridging the Divide            ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).  Elections are always polarizing. Still, I...

Abigail Foard
Nov 9, 20243 min read
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Kingdom Kindness: Celibate Passion
We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

Andrew Comiskey
Jun 24, 20244 min read
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Kingdom Kindness: Laughing All the Way
We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

Andrew Comiskey
Jun 10, 20244 min read
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Kingdom Kindness: June Bride
We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

Andrew Comiskey
Jun 1, 20243 min read
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No Gimmicks Part 1
‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...

Andrew Comiskey
May 20, 20243 min read
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Disembodied
‘To recover the true sense of the spiritual, we must rediscover the mystery of the material…It may be our failure to enter deeply and...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 8, 20244 min read
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Limping to New Life
I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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Foot Washing: Farming Wounds
‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 27, 20244 min read
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Foot Washing: Precious from the Worthless
‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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Foot Washing: Power to Plead
‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 14, 20243 min read
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Rebuilders
‘Is it a time for you to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains in ruins? Go…and build the house, so that I may take...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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What Lies Beneath?
Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...

Annette Comiskey
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Rousing Her Radiance: Day 40
Rousing Her Gently, Firmly ‘Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for Her, to make Her holy,...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20234 min read
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Rousing Her Radiance: Day 39
Blazing ‘I am not afraid. God is with me. He made me for this.’ - Joan of Arc ‘I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 18, 20234 min read
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Rousing Her Radiance: Day 38
Living Truth ‘You are Peter, and on this Rock, I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.’ (Matt. 16:18)....

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20233 min read
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Rousing Her Radiance: Day 37
The Child is a Warrior ‘I have quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me' (Ps....

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20233 min read
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