My son, my daughter, my child I love you with an everlasting love. You are so precious to me. Before you were conceived in your mother's womb, I thought of you. When I wanted you to have life, I breathed life through your nostrils and you became a person, a human...
Scripture: "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God." (Ps 20:7) Observation: The chariot and horse were weapons of war and naturally gave an advantage over the soldiers on foot. They were expensive and fearsome. I can...
I watched as teenagers donned the glasses and attempted to walk. None were successful. They bumped into chairs, bruised shins and some almost fell. They couldn't walk because they were drunk-or at least felt they were. We had enlisted a local law enforcement officer...
"If you . . . know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him." (Luke 11:13) Once a week the rattley old yellow bus would wind its way up the mountainside to the few cabins and cottages...
He preached faith and he practiced what he preached. So, in the goodness of his heart, he was taking a few groceries to an ‘economically challenged’ family who lived over the creek. He came to the footbridge and saw it was eroded by heavy rain. It was not safe to walk...
Good things come in threes and this is the first of three good news stories from the Bible. Enoch lived through about nine generations, from Adam to his own son, Methuselah, and Methuselah’s son, Lamech. He would have known Adam personally and would have understood...
Part 4: INHERITED MEMORIES Every morning we put feed out in dishes for parrots that gather in our garden. Every day they come down from the mountains to us for food and then they fly off to their way of life lived outside our garden. They build nests and rear their...
(This 4-part study is Study #4 from the series, Studies From the Book of Job. You can access the other studies by clicking here.) Last week, in The Prosperity Doctrine Exposed, we saw that the ever-popular "prosperity doctrine" is truly a teaching that reduces the God...
Last week, in The Shepherd and His Flock, Part 1, we saw that Jesus' teaching on the Shepherd and His flock is preceded by a powerful miracle: The healing of the blind man. But the man, after his healing find himself excommunicated from the synagogue by the Pharisees!...
Last week, in The Shepherd and His Flock, Part 2, we learned that Jesus was reproaching the Pharisees of being spiritually blind. Why? Because when brought face to face with Truth, they chose to hang on to their pet beliefs. And for this Jesus said, "but now that you...