by Joanne | Apr 16, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Practice, according to the dictionary is “to perform or do habitually or usually”. The word brings to mind the idiom: Practice what you preach. There are so many voices “preaching” nowadays. A quick scroll through Twitter will have any number of people telling us how...
by Joanne | Apr 9, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Perfectionism has been on my mind a bit these last few days. Most of us have a desire to do things well, or at least with excellence. Yet there is no one who does all things with perfection. Perfectionism stakes its claim on us by making us feel we are not enough. It...
by Joanne | Apr 2, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Easter has passed and I’m finding myself still drawn to thinking on the events. Jesus is resurrected to life, presents Himself to a few, and then what happens? In the Book of Acts, Luke gives us a glimpse: “To these He also presented Himself alive after...
by Joanne | Mar 26, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
I didn’t grow up in a denomination which recognized or practiced the season of Lent. Only in my adult life, did I decide it was something I wanted to observe. It’s been several years in which I gave up something for the Lenten season, often wanting it to...
by Joanne | Mar 20, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Bible Study breathes life into my soul. A small group of ladies sharing transparently and vulnerably becomes a lifeline, and a filter by which to view life. Recently we read and discussed Romans 6:16-22. Our study reminded us that freedom has a cost and the cost was...
by Joanne | Mar 5, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Lent – the time in which we remember the forty days Jesus spent fasting while in the desert and resisted the temptations with which Satan taunted Him. Many will give up something, called a sacrifice, and refrain from a food or activity for these forty days....