To Forgive or Not to Forgive

By Beth | September 15, 2020 |

    “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.       Matthew 6:14-15   I had a sad conversation with a friend who is living with the pain of unforgiveness, not her…

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Stand Firm

By Beth | September 1, 2020 | Comments Off on Stand Firm

    “All this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. Daniel 9:13   When my husband and I came to faith in Christ it seemed like everywhere we went Christians were talking about…

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Overcomers

By Beth | August 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Overcomers

  When I am afraid I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 I recently read a headline asking if God is calling California to repent with fires. (https://theworldview.com/#!news_broadcasts/is-god-calling-california-to-repent-through-fire). In it Kevin Swanson points out that with the fires and 12,000 lightning strikes there has been no mention of God or the need for repentance…

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Kindness

By Beth | August 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Kindness

    the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. (Dictionary.com)   Kindness has become a “thing” in our culture. A google search came up with 196,000,000 different references when I searched the word. Facebook has a couple of pages called, “Kindness is Everything.” One of these groups is all about “women’s rights,” which I…

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Dad’s Duty

By Beth | August 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Dad’s Duty

  There’s a horrible account in our newspaper about a little girl named Harper who was murdered by her mother, then wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden in a container of cat litter.  This violent and callous mother has been convicted of murder and is now serving time. But what about the father?  He…

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Life is Hard

By Beth | August 12, 2020 |

     “Life is hard. Then you die.” David Gerrold Right now, life is hard. We don’t know who to trust. We don’t believe anything the media says. Most of us have no true understanding of the virus, the riots, murdering, and burning of buildings that are happening across the nation. And, the politics, there…

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