Thankful Models
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…
Read MoreWaiting 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…
Read MoreWhere Does Your Guilt Come From?
For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. Psalm 25:11 I heard the conversation in a hair salon. A young mother was relieved that plans she had agreed to had fallen through because her daughter was sick. She was clear that she was not glad her daughter got sick,…
Read MoreDon’t Forget!
…you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt… Deuteronomy 7:18 Someone near and dear to me was going through a scary time of symptoms and tests, waiting for a diagnosis. I talked to her the day she was…
Read MoreCareful, Little Ears
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Proverbs 17:27 I was proud and fearful at the same time. At our family dinner table recently, our Grandson, Bruce, asked what a “desktop” is. His father gave him a brief, but accurate description that…
Read MoreOne Orphan One Widow
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:27 A Christian friend told me about a problem I could not fix. Though she wasn’t asking me to do anything about it, I…
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