About a week before leaving on a trip, I begin to check the long-term forecast for my destination on a daily basis. It's interesting that the forecast one day will call for the sun to shine throughout the entire vacation, while the next day rain is predicted every...
There was a "giant" in my back yard this week. My dog saw it and refused to go outside. Just what was this "giant?" Pouring, drenching, unending rain that fell all week! As I pushing my dog to go out in the rain, I began to think about giants, these horribly big...
To say I was annoyed would have been an understatement. It was my last day at work before leaving on vacation. My morning preparation had gone well, and I now found myself on the road, headed for work. I was 15 minutes earlier than normal, and those extra 15 minutes...
Philip was instructed by God to go to a certain place at a certain time, and when he arrived, there just "happened" to be an Ethiopian official on that same road, an Ethiopian with lots of questions about Scripture. A chance meeting? Hardly. Truly a divine...
There is an election in my province next month. Many in Ontario are discontent with the leadership, and they will be allowed to go to the polls and vote for a new leader. We are fortunate to live in Canada where bad governments can be voted out of office and better...
Last week, in Building Solomon's Temple, Part 3, we discovered that we need to make room for God in our heart-temples, and we need to lay a firm foundation for our heart-temples by following Jesus and obeying His commands. Does the building of the temple proper have...
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" (Jer 29:11, NIV2) A man, a beggar, sat at the temple gate, begging for money. He had been lame his entire life, and his sole...
Numbers 11 tells a sad incident in the history of the Israelite nation. They had been wandering in the wilderness for months with only manna to eat, and needless to say, they were tired of it. I can totally relate. The rare times my husband and I go out to dinner, you...
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HTML clipboard The book of Mark records the story of an interesting miracle. A blind man is brought and Jesus is asked to restore his sight. Jesus complies, but unlike the other recorded miracles of healing, it takes two times for the man to be completely healed: "So...