Our Refuge & Strength
A quick look at the news these days can be disheartening. The headlines are filled with reports of extreme weather storms, an unstable economic market, politicians making allegations against one another, and pandemic viruses which threaten the health of many. It would...
Victory, Joy & God’s Love
"No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." (Romans 8:37, NLT) "The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love...
Table
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Table. The word brings to mind the image of the last supper Jesus had with His disciples. Gathered around the table was the one one who...
Made to Move Mountains
Mountains - AKA, difficult situations - are faced by each one of us at one time or another. Mountains are those circumstances which seem impossible and unyielding to change. And yet, God asks us to believe that He alone is able to move them. In her latest book, Made...
The Roundabout Way
My morning reading brought me to Exodus 13 where we find God giving instructions for the dedication of the firstborn in each family. Having spared the firstborn from the harm Pharaoh desired to do, God instructed how the event was to be memorialized. "This is a day to...
Delays, Disappointments & Strength
We opened the week with reading Genesis 39:19-23, where we find that upon hearing what his wife had to say, the master had Joseph thrown into prison. "But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison"...