Menu Choices

By Beth | September 20, 2016

  My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night.  Psalm 63:5-6 Restaurants are making it easier to stay on a “controlled eating plan” (I’m sick of…

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The Good I Want, The Evil I Don’t

By Beth | September 16, 2016

  For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Romans 7:19   If it weren’t so sad, it would be funny. I order a salad for lunch and then have dessert. I buy organic catsup and chicken or beef with no…

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God Speaks

By Beth | September 13, 2016

  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

     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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