by Joanne | Aug 30, 2022 | Let's Have Coffee
“Endure hardship as discipline.” (Hebrews 12: 7, NIV) The problem with this is most of us are not fond of discipline. As a child, I did not enjoy discipline. Being sentenced to my room for a period of time just did not fit into my definition of “fun”. Having...
by Joanne | Jul 27, 2022 | Let's Have Coffee
I don’t write much about television shows but Blue Bloods has had my attention in a new way. I began watching the show about four years ago. Recently I discovered a channel which is airing the beginning episodes I had never before seen. Now several nights a...
by Joanne | Nov 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
We continued in the study “It Could Only Be Jesus” beginning with reading Romans 3:1-4, and verses 9-20, where we find Paul continuing to talk about sin and the Law. “J.B. Phillips’ paraphrase of Romans 3:20 sheds light on the purpose of the Law,...
by Joanne | Sep 28, 2021 | Book Reviews
The other day in was talking with a dear friend of many years, she spoke the words I had been thinking, “Life is so hard.” When we were moms of little ones, we thought those challenges were difficult. But now the years have passed, our children are...
by Joanne | Aug 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week our morning group began the Hello Mornings Study, Then I Will Go . In the coming four weeks, we hope to learn lessons from the book of Esther on Obedience, Victory, and God’s Providence. We began with reading 2 Chronicles 36:11-21. I read it the first...