For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8 – 9 God is holy. I am sinful. In Jerry Bridge’s book, “The Transforming Power of the Gospel,…
Read More“If you give them an inch, they will take a mile.” Reading, writing, social studies, and arithmetic. That is how public schools started. Teachers knew children couldn’t sit in a chair all day, so they allowed them to go out and play. Go out and play got a little unmanageable as the schools grew…
Read MoreMiddletown, De or Charlottesville, Va. I grew up in a small town in Delaware. In our town, there were two schools systems, the “White” and the “Colored,” until 1966 (if my memory serves me correctly). I was in the 6th grade. Before we integrated, the two high schools were barely two miles apart, but, if…
Read MoreIn a church we belonged to some time ago, there was an associate pastor who would occasionally preach and often taught Sunday School. As my husband and I would discuss his teachings on Sunday afternoon, we would see that he always came down with one lesson: “trust and obey.” For the record, this is a…
Read MoreTake care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you…Deuteronomy 4:23 The Price I look awful. My eyes are swollen, my face is red and blotchy, and my nose looks like I was the loser is a hard fought fist fight. A lot of years ago I developed…
Read More…but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Isaiah 59:2 God commands us to pray without ceasing. In a discussion about God’s sovereignty over everything, a friend expressed the almost overwhelming number of people and…
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