God Speaks

By Beth | September 13, 2016 | Comments Off on God Speaks

  Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. Proverbs 19:27   “God still speaks,”  got 2,110,000 hits on my Google search. Obviously, people still understand that God speaks. How does He do it? How do we test what we “hear”? It can be confusing. God is God…

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Say Something

By Beth | September 9, 2016 |

  But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged. 2 Corinthians 10:15b   We have a friend who says he can always tell how faithful a person is by how well he/she is known in his/her own town. Very few people in our small…

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Joy in the Morning

By Beth | September 6, 2016 |

  Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5b We used to  be newspaper people. I would come downstairs in the morning and go right to the front porch to look for the paper. Most mornings I beat the paperboy. I continued, hopefully, to go look for it first…

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The Right Answers

By Beth | September 2, 2016 | Comments Off on The Right Answers

     And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God,     and him only shall you serve.’” Luke 4:8   I have observed teaching times  in a preschool children’s Bible study class. Inevitably, every question their teachers asked received the same answer. “How did Moses lead the Israelites across the Red Sea?”…

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Thankful Models

By Beth | August 30, 2016 |

    Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.          1 Chronicles 16:8   In church yesterday, I noticed, as I have before, how thankful to God our leadership is. In prayer and in conversation, especially our Pastor, is always giving thanks to God for what is…

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Waiting to Procrastinate

By Beth | August 26, 2016 | Comments Off on Waiting to Procrastinate

  But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. James 1:25   It took me three years to get a new rug. The old rug had been worn through from repetitive…

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