Whose Value?

By Beth | October 13, 2015

  Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. Matthew 10:31   As I was putting my daughter to bed one night when she was five she said to me, “Daddy’s odd isn’t he?” One illustration of this is that he considers economics a hobby. I have learned a lot from him.…

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The Test of Love

By Beth | October 9, 2015

  Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” Hosea 6:3   I have been taught about God’s love since I was a child attending Sunday School. I still find…

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Can’t We Get Along?

By Beth | October 7, 2015

    “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. John 15:18 “Why is it so hard to get along?” I have heard this question posed twice recently. The first time it was asked seriously in a post where the writer was reacting to the killings in Oregon,…

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Hearing a Child’s Heart

By Beth | October 2, 2015

  … let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. James 5:20 The Conversation I was within earshot of a conversation between a father and his ten-ish year old daughter. We were in a large pottery store. I…

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Strengthening Friendship

By Beth | September 29, 2015

  “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” Mark 5:19b   David and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth, Mary and Elizabeth, Paul and Barnabas. Friendships are all through the Bible. Best Friends  I remember shortly after I became a…

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What is Your View of God?

By Beth | September 22, 2015

    Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.                                           1 Chronicles 29:11   “A high view of…

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