The Power of the Pulpit

By Beth | November 1, 2016

    Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we    who teach will be judged with greater strictness. James 3:1 The scariest thing about teaching is our responsibility before God to those being taught. Parents, Sunday School Teachers, Bible study teachers, and pastors, will be judged by a stricter…

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Discontent?

By Beth | October 28, 2016

  Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. Philippians 4:11   I would like to go to Europe or have three vacations a year. I would like to eat in fancy restaurants. I would like to have lots of friends “liking”…

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A Different Election

By Beth | October 25, 2016

  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

  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

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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