What will little girls think about their bodies? Their beauty? Their worth? So much depends on us.
One of the most important statement I make in my book, The Power of a Woman’s Words is this: “” That is a daunting thought.
My niece, Anna, posted about a poignant moment with her eight year old daughter on Facebook, Read more…
It was a long day with a longer to do list. I was chipping away at it, but running out of emotional and physical steam.
What I needed was tea…a large sweet tea…without ice.
No need wasting space with frozen water.
I hopped in the car and headed to Chick-fil-A.
As I pulled into the parking lot, Read more…
I was wandering around the tourist area of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Shelves with tacky little statues, snow globes with leaning towers, and ten dollar t-shirts crowed small booths for tourists.
Shifty men with cases of “genuine fake” watches swarmed like bees. Rolex, Cartier, and Infinity—all for fifty bucks or less. Flashing fake gold and flaunting fake brands; Read more…
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise,” (Psalm 100:4).
Right in the center of my Bible, I find an invitation into God’s presence. And while there is nowhere we can go away from God’s presence, we can certainly feel distant from Him.
In Genesis chapter 2, we read of Adam and Eve’s original sin of disobedience to God’s one command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Read more…
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“… tongue is a small part of the body, Read more…
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3-4 NIV).
I couldn’t believe it. Read more…
“All Scripture is God-breathed,” (2 Timothy 3:16 NIV).
“Let’s go scuba diving!” a friend exclaimed one hot summer day.
“That sounds great,” I said. “But I don’t know how.”
“Just leave it to me,” he said.
I was 17 when I decided to go scuba diving with some friends. I had no training and should not have been in deep water, Read more…
Love is patient, love is kind…it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs, (1 Corinthians 13:4-5, NIV).
She was at it again. Mrs. Barnett was getting out the scorecards and tallying up the points.
I sat with an older woman as she began enumerating her family’s shortcomings. Read more…
Finally, brothers (and sisters), whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me–put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you (Philippians 4:8-9, Read more…
First, let me apologize! I am doing an on-line Bible study for A Sudden Glory, and the blog mailing list and the Bible study mailing list got married for a very brief time yesterday. So you might have received Lesson 1 Day 2 by mistake. PLEASE don’t unsubscribe on that email. It will remove you from everything. The problem has been fixed and you should not receive any more Bible study emails unless you have subscribed to that as well. Read more…