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 […]
Create in me a clean heart, O God,and renew a right spirit within me. – Psa.51:10 I dislike coming up with journal and blog entry titles until after I am done writing. I never seem to know what I am going to write until after I have written it. I may start out with an […]
Think of God Often “Pray, remember what I have recommended to you, which is to think often on God, by day by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you. Leave him not alone. You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came […]
We all have lost loved ones and we would do anything to get them to come to Jesus, but they won’t and they can’t. They have no desire for him. No need of him that they can see. No belief. They aren’t willing. Or maybe they are too weak to come to Jesus. Too blind. […]
This beggar, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, probably was not the only beggar sitting beside the side of the highway that day. He was probably surrounded by beggars, some who could see, some who could not see, some who were handicapped in various ways. All the beggars would be crying out to the multitude, passing […]
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” – John 1:14 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,” – 1 Peter 3:18 Out of the darkness God called forth light Our Savior was born in the middle of the night […]
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost […]
Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” – Luke 21:36 In our battle against sin, it does not matter if we win or lose. Victory belongs to the Lord. […]
In Chapter 19 entitled Sons of God in this same book, Knowing God, J.I. Packer talked about how difficult it is to bring an adopted child into your home and to what great lengths adoptive parents have to go in order to develop a relationship with that child. He says: “The establishing of the child’s […]
