by Joanne | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I open my refrigerator door, look inside, and take note: Diet Coke bottle holds….. Diet Coke milk container holds….. skim milk light cream container holds….. light cream Redi Whip can holds….. whipped cream Taking this all in, I remembered a quote I once read:...
by Joanne | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Spring. In looking up the definitions of spring, there is no mention of the season. Yet here we are at the start of spring. Spring...
by Joanne | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The week began in Matthew 5:2-12 and a focus on the beatitudes. In this sermon, Jesus overturns all that the people were expecting in a Messiah. In so doing, He destroys the validity of their expectations and presents His upside-down kingdom. “His kingdom would...
by Joanne | Mar 21, 2022 | Prayer, Uncategorized
The Lord’s Prayer. It’s familiar, often quoted, even memorized. A recent and slow read stopped me in my tracks recently. Let’s visit Matthew 6 for a few minutes … Jesus is the one who is speaking and addresses the topic of giving: “But when you give to the...
by Joanne | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Easy. We’ve been married a long time now and have gone through many challenges together. We always say the same thing when a...
by Joanne | Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The lives of John the Baptist and Jesus were brought together at the very start of Jesus’ earthly ministry. ~*~*~ “I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.” (John 1:34, NASB) It is easy to forget these accounts were...
