He Knows Our Need
The story of Ruth continues to teach me new lessons. If we have heard the story of Ruth before, then we know Boaz is her kinsman redeemer, also representative of Jesus and His working in each of our lives. A "kinsman-redeemer", very simply defined, was a person, the...
My Lenten Failure
I was not raised in a denomination which practiced Lent. But I have this admission to make .... I always felt I had missed out on something when my girlfriends came to school with the Cross fashioned from ash on their foreheads. As the days passed and they shared what...
Luke and the Outsiders
"Reading the gospels one after another seems so redundant," she said to me. I continued to think about her words long into the day. I remembered thinking the very same thing once, after all, each gospel tells the same stories of the time Jesus spent on this earth. And...
Continue the Work
O Lord, Heavenly Father, from who all good and perfect gifts come; O Father of light, who causes us both to desire and to do your good pleasure; O Lord Jesus Christ, the author and perfecter of faith; O Holy Spirit, who works in all things according to your plan: We...
The Crowd
{{Today is Friday!!! It is the day I link with Lisa Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday. Here is how it works…. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Lots of women. Everyone writes on the same word.}} Today's word is .... Crowd. To feel like one of the crowd is a...
In the Next Breath
(image courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net/digitalart) This morning I read in the Gospel of Mark of a time when Jesus was giving a lecture in his hometown. He made a real hit with the people to the point that they were saying ... "We had no idea he was this good!" "How...