by Joanne | Mar 10, 2025 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
This past week was Ash Wednesday, and the start of Lent. Lent – the season of giving up, of sacrifice. As the days approached, nothing was on my heart to give up. And so, I decided to give up on giving up. Over the forty days of Lent, I want to solely focus on Jesus...
by Joanne | Apr 13, 2024 | Quotes & Thoughts
“So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.” (Romans 14:19, NASB) “A mark of spiritual maturity is a willingness to sacrifice personal comfort in order to strengthen other believers … To pursue...
by Joanne | Apr 1, 2024 | Devoted Living, Uncategorized
The days leading up to Easter bring us to reflect much on the sacrifice, death, and resurrection of our Lord. Maybe this is the reason the verse poked at my soul for a few days. “He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the...
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 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....
