Respectful Reasoning or Silent Sabotage

By Beth | February 14, 2017 |

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33   My mother’s advice when I got married:  “Don’t start doing anything now that you don’t want to be doing ten years from now.”  Wise advice. I applied it in some small…

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Plan for Action

By Beth | February 10, 2017 | Comments Off on Plan for Action

  Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning.. Luke 12:35 “A man’s reputation is not built on what he plans to do.” (A post on Facebook.) It seems that ever since reading that on Facebook, and having it sound so right, I have been reminded of how often the Bible requires action. James…

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Something’s Lost!

By Beth | February 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Something’s Lost!

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? James 2:14   In my freshman year of college I had a roommate who was a little scatter-brained and she used to regularly “pray” to St. Anthony. She would say, “St. Anthony, St.…

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Present Fear: Future Fear

By Beth | February 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Present Fear: Future Fear

  For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world–our faith. 1 John 5:4   My husband likes to say, “I am not afraid of dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” As I have been reading article after…

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Good Questions

By Beth | January 31, 2017 |

  He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. Titus 1:9   Is he faithful to the scripture? Does he teach sound doctrine? Does he love his neighbor? People who complain about their…

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Study and/or Serve

By Beth | January 27, 2017 | Comments Off on Study and/or Serve

      But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22   Christian women who are a little older, seem to have more time to invest outside of the family. These women have different ideas about Bible study and service to the Lord. Some do little or no Bible…

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