Category: Hope
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Surprised By Titles
Many Bibles I have include titles of sections and of chapters. However, I have one Bible that does not. I recently completed the Psalms, took notes, and assigned titles to each Psalm. What if we all ignore the titles that someone else assigned to the chapters and sections and listen for the titles the Holy…
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What to Do In Uncertain Times
As we begin a new year and a new decade, we see uncertainty in our world, our nation, and even in our families. Lord, are we safe? Will we have enough money? What if one of us gets sick and needs extended care? I don’t know what to do, God.
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49 Years of Blessings
From the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Mark 10:6-9 Wave after wave of…
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Walking into a New Year and New Decade
May you walk into the New Year and new decade in the steadfast love of God, trusting in His faithfulness, His direction, and His salvation.
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Resolved: Listen Deeply … 5 Strategies
Texts, emails, phone calls, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, calendar, to-do lists, traffic, never-ending meetings. Do these intrusions make up a good part of your day? Could they be interfering with the important things in your life? In 2019, the word “busyness” described a good part of my life. Resolved.
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The Light Shines in the Darkness – Merry Christmas!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of…
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Stories of Significance
“Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” Jesus, when he began…
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How Are You Preparing for Christmas?
“Rome rules. Corruption reigns, and we haven’t heard from God in 400 years. Now, this man who wears camel hair and eats wild locust and honey is roaming the desert telling us to be baptized like Gentiles converting to Judaism. Weird thing is, Jews are doing it. The world has gone mad!”
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9 Years Healed! 9 Lessons Learned
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. Ephesians 5:2 Nine years ago today, the Lord miraculously healed me of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (declared a miracle by my fibromyalgia physician). For about 15 years, I…