by Joanne | Jun 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
“I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:27, NLT) “We need to hear that God is still in control. We need to hear that it’s not over until he says so. We need to hear that life’s...
by Joanne | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Goal. A quick check in a dictionary and I find ‘goal’ has been defined as “the result or achievement toward which effort is directed”...
by Joanne | Jun 13, 2019 | Encouragement
In Acts 13, we find the story of Barnabas and Saul and a Jewish sorcerer, named Bar-Jesus. This sorcerer had attached himself to the governor of the region, who Scripture tells us “was an intelligent manâ€. The governor had invited Barnabas and Saul to visit him as...
by Joanne | Jun 12, 2019 | Encouragement
It may have been the very first verse we memorized in Sunday School. The words are so ingrained in my memory, it comes back in The King James Version: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not...
by Joanne | Jun 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
This was our fourth week in the Hello Mornings study, A Faith That Endures. Paul had us thinking about the return of the Lord, church leaders, and our own spiritual growth. ~*~*~ We began the week with reading 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5 where Paul talks about “the...
