Comforting Words

By Beth | November 21, 2014 |

  This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. Psalm 119:50   Years ago we visited a church. It was early in my own Christianity and I had not studied Psalm 119. The Pastor clearly compared the man who stands in the pulpit telling stories and jokes, rarely relating them…

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Forgiven

By Beth | November 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Forgiven

  …as far as the East is from the West, so far does He remove our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12   I’m a list keeper. Almost every day I make a list of what needs to get done. I’m even one of those who adds things I do that weren’t on the list just…

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Voter’s Guilt

By Beth | November 11, 2014 |

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is…

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Sleep or Fight

By Beth | November 4, 2014 |

  Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6   Jonah was travelling “away from the presence of the Lord” (Jonah 1:3), sleeping in the inner part of the…

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The Sexting and Porn Problems

By Beth | October 28, 2014 | Comments Off on The Sexting and Porn Problems

  Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5   There is a man who shows up in church every Sunday looking like a great husband and father as he enters with his family. During the week he is viewing pornography,…

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Combating Evil

By Beth | October 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Combating Evil

  There is evil in the world. ISIS, Hamas, and  other terrorist groups would be at the top of my list right now. There are politicians who want to rule to gain power rather than govern to serve others. Then there’s evil like those who fight for abortion “rights” and the repeated killing of innocent…

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