Before I was a mom, I used to think I was going to be a pretty terrific one. I mean, I read all the right books, babysat as a teenager, earned my degree in elementary education AND had the experience of teaching for a few years. From my naive perspective,
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. – Psalm 23:1-3 If I stay in once place or if I travel alone, and not follow God’s commands, my attempts to sustain myself will never be
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead… I press on to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:13-14 Can you imagine the guilt Paul must have faced once he realized the magnitude of his sin? He had held
I was pulling the last of the dinner rolls out of the oven when the whole lot of them came running. It was 4pm on a Monday, and in between homework and suppertime the smells and their impatient bellies had gotten the best of them. “Can I have a warm
It took just one man. His name was not well known. He wasn’t an author, a speaker, or someone who had a large platform. What he did have was a small audience each Sunday morning at his local church where he taught a Sunday school class to a group of
Almost twenty years ago, my father gave me some advice that I have often returned to. He said, “If God has laid a calling on your heart, He will find a way to bring it to fruition.” You do not have to worry that the calling will expire or disappear.
No woman in her right mind would want to tear her family down with her own hands or be described as disgraceful or quarrelsome. Yet every day I have a choice to build up my family or to tear them down with my words, my actions, and my choices. I
One of Jesus’ purposes in descending to earth was to redeem His people. In Heaven, a new song of worship will be sung praising the Son of God’s sacrificial actions for His people. Redemption is the act of gaining possession of something in exchange for payment of a debt. Jesus,
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for
“God illustrated the unknown about the Messiah through the known about David.“- Beth Moore This week we are looking at David– the man. We know from the verses we’ve read so far, there were times in David’s life when he missed the mark…just like we all have. He sinned and