"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." (Rom 8:37) The early morning was so peaceful that I couldn't help but linger a few moments on the back deck. It was the first morning in days without rain. The sky was clear,...
"The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan." (Joshua 5:12) So often, when I have read children's versions of the battle of Jericho, I have had...
Isaiah 10:27 Greetings! I am speaking to all of you women who might be reading this about what the Lord has placed on my heart and what has been related to me in my life for such a very long time. When we where little kids and our mother told us to go to our room and...
Whilst we abhor war and the American flag is only a symbol of who we are, our flag has become so very precious to us as it represents all that is dearest to our heart. We consider freedom to be more than just a way of life, counting freedom to be life itself ~ as...
When my husband was a small child, his grandfather had a favorite prank he loved to pull. When Michael and his family went to visit, Grandpa Twigg always brought out his penny jug. This jug was really more like an urn, with an opening at the top just big enough for a...
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Gal 5:1) If you ask my golden retriever puppy her opinion on the subject, the very best part of her daily walk happens when I release...
Every fall they move in. They find some secluded spot in the house where we can never find them, and there they multiply, as our uninvited guests, until spring. They LOVE lights, and many times each winter we are forced to empty their roasted bodies out of the light...
“ . . . Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith . . .” (Heb 12:1-2) A particular cloud caught my eye...
As a teenager, I wish I had known how to overcome not only insecurities, but self-doubt and timidity, too. Like my monogrammed purse, I carried them everywhere. You would expect that at my age, I would have conquered them. Not so. “It’s upside down, hanging on the...
Today, we come to the concluding part of the series on God of regeneration: Spiritual and Universal Man is only a spirit living inside a tent (1 Cor 5:1/2 Peter 1:3) so more than perishable physical bodies or temporary financial setbacks, one needs to be more...