A Different Election

By Beth | October 25, 2016 | Comments Off on A Different Election

  Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 2 Peter 1:10   At a gathering of politically-minded people, there were some candidates campaigning for public office. After a lecture on the biblical underpinnings of the constitution, each candidate…

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God Is There

By Beth | October 21, 2016 | Comments Off on God Is There

  You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.” Psalm 27:8     Fall in Pennsylvania is amazing. From my home going North involves mountains (or big hills; I am from Delaware, they all look like mountains to me.). Going up and coming down, there are…

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What Happened to “Happy” Halloween

By Beth | October 18, 2016 | Comments Off on What Happened to “Happy” Halloween

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? Psalm 6:5   I know many Christians who think that observing Halloween is sinful. It feeds a cultural downhill slide into things of the occult and a culture of death. I didn’t use to think this way. When I…

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The Marriage Map

By Beth | October 14, 2016 |

  Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  Genesis 12:1 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24   In Genesis…

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Government “Giving”

By Beth | October 11, 2016 |

    Now this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and  needy. Ezekiel 16:49 This verse (top) is what God’s Word says about the city of Sodom.  Does it not describe our nation, too? Usually when…

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Says Who?

By Beth | October 7, 2016 |

    All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16   I do not know anyone who does not think that we should be sending aid to Haiti after Hurricane Matthew (though I am sure there are some)  or doing…

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