2 Corinthians 2:11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. At the risk of sounding a bit overdramatic, I’m glad to be alive. My husband and I recently had the opportunity for a short getaway at his brother’s cabin outside Continue Reading…
Luke 8:14 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. Recently my husband was pruning our rose bushes when a Continue Reading…
John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends. A few years ago, some women in our church decided to take a road trip to catch a women’s conference in Lexington, Kentucky. Edith Continue Reading…
Luke 12:40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Are you ready? Maybe you’re familiar with the story of Rick Rescorla. Rick Rescorla was the Director of Security at Morgan Stanley, the company that occupied 22 floors in Continue Reading…
2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. Christians are a supernatural people. And by supernatural, Continue Reading…
Psalm 121:7 The Lord will keep your going out and coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Do you know God watches over all your comings and goings? Everywhere and always? Traveling to Dallas and visiting the George W. Bush Presidential Library had long been on my bucket list. Continue Reading…
Romans 13:8-10 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. … Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. It seems like we hear it all the time. Someone in authority on Continue Reading…
Isaiah 45:22 “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” My 8-year-old grandson and I are reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We just finished the part where Susan asks if Aslan is safe. Mr. Continue Reading…
Jeremiah 43:1-3; 7 When Jeremiah finished telling all the people the whole Message that their God had sent him to give them… all the self-important men, said to Jeremiah, “Liar! Our God never sent you with this message telling us not to go to Egypt and live…. They entered the Continue Reading…
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you….” Mae was a young wife and mother. She had given birth to one son, and two years later found herself pregnant again. She and her husband were thrilled about their Continue Reading…