Oct 5, 2019 | Hope and Encouragement
This past Monday I spent much of the day fighting back tears that kept welling up and spilling down my face despite my best efforts to control them. I am not a person prone to crying about things that happen in my own life. I readily admit, and my husband of over 40...
Jul 9, 2019 | Christian Worldview
NOTE: This blog was originally published on June 26, 2015. In rereading it, I realized the truths the Lord led me to write at that time are even more vital for us to heed now as our culture has even more fully embraced the lies being perpetrated by those who are...
May 24, 2019 | Godly Living
Another hour ticked away on the clock as I lay awake tossing and turning, going over and over again in my mind the purchase my husband and I had made earlier that day that was not able to be returned. We were stuck with our choice, like it or not.. I felt tormented by...
May 10, 2019 | Godly Living, Hope and Encouragement
As I hung up the phone after listening to a litany of complaints from a friend who’s a self-described ‘stress-mess’, I was aware that the lengthy conversation that solely focused upon her ‘trials and tribulations’ had a draining effect upon me. My heart certainly went...
Feb 22, 2019 | Godly Living, Hope and Encouragement
I have found that all too often professing Christians give lip service to the word of God. Why do I say that? Many Christians say they believe God is sovereign, good and trustworthy, but they don’t really believe that. If they did, they would experience the...
Jan 25, 2019 | Godly Relationships, Hope and Encouragement
After almost 40 years of marriage I have learned a lot of things I should not to do, and several things I should do, if I want a God-glorifying, satisfying marriage. But there is one thing that I have learned that is most important if I am to have the...
Jan 10, 2019 | Godly Living, Hope and Encouragement
When I was a young girl and heard Bibles stories like God parting the Red Sea for the Israelites; David slaying the giant Goliath; Daniel surviving the lions’ den; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego coming out unscathed from the fiery furnace; Jesus healing lepers,...
Jan 4, 2019 | Godly Living, Godly Relationships
It can be easy to identify the fear of flying, or of spiders, or of heights, or other fears that seem tangible. As prevalent as those fears may be, I think most people struggle with a fear that they’re often unaware of, and that can have a major impact upon their...
May 18, 2013 | Christian Worldview
William Shakespeare made famous the line, “What’s in a name?That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” It may not make any difference what we call a rose, but there is great significance and power in one name, and that is the Name of Jesus. It...
