page and so many of my FB Friends liked it, I thought I’d share it with you too. This is a picture of my son and I having coffee at Starbucks last weekend, just before I took him to the airport to fly back to his home. (If you’re not one of my facebook family, please pop over and click “like.”)
It has been said that to have a child is to have your heart go walking around outside of your body for the rest of your life. Read more…
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“For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, Read more…
“When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” Read more…
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,” (Ephesians 6:12 NIV).
In my early years, I was a rough and rowdy tomboy who climbed trees, skipped rocks, and made skid marks on the asphalt with my glittery pink banana seat bike. Read more…
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective,
(James 5:16b NIV).
G. Campbell Morgan tells a story about the power of one woman’s prayers to stir a revival in her home church.
“There are saints of God who for long, long years have been shut off from all the activities of the Church, Read more…
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12 NIV).
When God created man, He stepped back and said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Read more…
Today’s Truth
“When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD”– Read more…
Today’s Truth
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 1:4 NIV).
Friend To Friend
Proverbs 31 introduces us to the mother whose children rise up and call her blessed. She is a “wife of noble character” (NIV), “an excellent wife” (NAS) and “a capable, Read more…
Today’s Truth
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV).
Friend To Friend
This week we have been looking at four steps for taking every thought captive. Today, let’s look at step three: Reject the Lie Once I had a door-to-door vacuum salesman come to my house. Read more…
Today’s Truth
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV).
Friend To Friend
Over the past few days, we have been looking at steps to taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Read more…