Short, daily reflections on specific Bible passages, aimed at encouraging readers in their daily spiritual walk.
I recently ran across a passage that I had marked from one of my favorite books called Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss. I don’t read two many novels, but this was one that I ran across that I have bought copies of and insisted it was mandatory reading for my girl friends. You can actually […]
My husband and I went to watch ‘Prometheus’ earlier this year. I’ve never been much of an ‘Aliens’ fan but I did find the premise behind it quite interesting. It was one in which man goes in search of God, in the case of this movie “the gods” to discover why he has been created. […]
A storm, a dark terrible storm, has engulfed my life and swallowed up my family. It was sudden and furiously swift. These past days have been violent and relentless. My heart has been in my throat so much that breathing has sometimes been painful. I have cried from a place so deep in my […]
I’ve been reading a book called Charles Spurgeon, The Great Orator by J.C. Carlile. Something I read last night stayed with me all day today and I wanted to continue to remember it. In recounting Spurgeon’s education, a cook is mentioned who had great influence on him. “During this time he was influenced greatly by […]
We are condemned to salvation through the Cross of Christ. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Feb. 2nd This one sentence stood out to me as I was reading, “we are condemned to salvation.” Condemned to salvation, it sounded so ironic when I first read it. How can ones salvation be compared to […]
“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” – Acts 26:14 According to Webster to goad means to urge with or as if with a goad, to stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick or to provoke, as by constant criticism. 1 Sam.13:21 […]
It’s hard to share portions of your life and God’s work in it because each story is like a page torn out from a book. You may get a glimpse, a taste but you can’t see and understand His complete work which intertwines and underlies all the stories in your life together, and then intertwines […]
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great […]
I have a tendency to get lost. My husband says I have no sense of direction at all. He is right. I can have a map in my hands and still get lost. Maps are beneficial but once you make a few wrong turns, or if you start off by holding it upside down and […]
This weekend I spent some time sitting on a hill writing in my journal during our quiet time at our church’s annual women’s retreat. As I sat poised to write, watching all the women off in the distance, sitting under trees, on benches, on stair steps, silently praying, writing, walking, working out their thoughts while […]
