by Joanne | Feb 28, 2018 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
Community. It’s a word we hear and see tossed around quite a bit. As I sat thinking on it a bit, I came to realize, community can probably be boiled down to a single word – Fellowship. Maybe two words even – Friendship. Funny how they both begin with...
by Joanne | Feb 27, 2018 | Encouragement
This morning I felt like I needed a little “faith buildingâ€. So I turned to Hebrews 11 to find the help I needed. There I discovered people of faith most often did things they really did not want to do. Let me explain … Noah could not have wanted to build...
by Joanne | Feb 25, 2018 | Encouragement
“Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act … Put your hope in the Lord. Travel steadily along his path. He will honor you …” (Psalm 37: 7, 34, NLT) At the end of the day, in whom do you trust? Sometimes you might...
by Joanne | Feb 21, 2018 | Encouragement
“2 Corinthians is the most personal of the New Testament books. Other epistles bring the revelation of God to us, but 2 Corinthians is unique in this respect that it shows us the kind of man he is through whom God imparts His revelation. Had we not this epistle...
by Joanne | Feb 19, 2018 | Encouragement
I woke up yesterday morning to fresh snow. White as white could be. A blanket of beauty, the yard wrapped in a stunning hush of quietness. I’ll admit – I love where we live. I love our yard and the serenity I breathe in simply looking out. As I stood...
by Joanne | Feb 15, 2018 | Encouragement
The phone call came, “Please pray. They are both sick.” The words brought to mind this post, making it seem like the time to re-post it. Years ago, in the throes of toddlerhood and probably complaining about the “terrible two’s, someone responded,...
