Priorities & Plans
This fourth week in the study God. Plan. Move. began with reading both Matthew 22:34-40 and Ecclesiastes 12:31. The subject? Loving God. The Teacher asks the question in Matthew 22:36, "which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?" The words 'most...
Promise, Fight, and Victory
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.†(2 Corinthians 10:4, NIV) God has given us great and wonderful promises by which to live. I cannot help but wonder why there have been...
At The Beginning
"Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening." (Acts 16:25, NLT) "Great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation. It wasn't logic that caused Moses to raise his staff on the bank of the Red...
Start
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Start. "Start" can be defined as the beginning of an activity or a journey. The best part of the day for me is the start of it. The mornings are my favorite...
May It Be So
The Lord's Prayer is one we are all familiar with, and often, familiarity can rob us from the depth of meaning which God wants to speak into our hearts. In their book, May It Be So: Forty Days with the Lord's Prayer, Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson, slow us down...
The Heart That Heals
The book arrived and its lovely cover immediately had my attention. Later that afternoon, I made myself a cup of tea and settled on the couch to read. In her book, The Heart That Heals, Patsy Burnette tells her story. It's a story of loss and brokenness. It's a story...