Psalm 121:8 The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. (NIV) Have you seen the Duck Duck Go commercials? A man sings, “I’ll be watching you” as he peers over someone engaged on the internet with a different search engine. The implication, of course, is that Duck Duck Continue Reading…
Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them.” [AMP] My husband and I celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary this week. Hopeless romantic that I am, I couldn’t help but reminisce about our unlikely story…. As many of you know, Chip Continue Reading…
Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” “Don’t view God as your first priority!” What????? The speaker explained that all too often many believers spend devotional time with God in the morning, then proceed to their next priority of Continue Reading…
Job 42:5 “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” One of my friends works with teenage girls. She recently said she was trying to train them to recognize God in their circumstances. I couldn’t help but think what an apt word: train. Realizing God Continue Reading…
Matthew 16:15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” By the time Lauren Daigle’s phenomenal song, “You Say,” went triple platinum, it became clear a lot of folks were looking for the answer to who God says we are. Are we really loved? Do we truly belong? Continue Reading…
Ezra 6:11 “Furthermore, I decree that if anyone defies this edict, a beam is to be pulled from their house and they are to be impaled on it. And for this crime their house is to be made a pile of rubble.” Sometimes I need a who’s in control reality check. Continue Reading…
Jude 1:24 “To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—” In my Public Speaking classes I like to show the Allstate commercial, The Recession That Made Us Great, to demonstrate the power of the Continue Reading…
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Events have a way of resurfacing in my memory around the same time every year. It was a year ago this month that Continue Reading…
1 Samuel 26:10 “As surely as the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.” Don’t we all at times have trouble holding situations in life loosely? Speaking as someone who has a Continue Reading…