In the concluding part of our series on "Friendship"; today we focus on the final two dimensions of Friendship... Comfort... For a moment, let's remain in the realm of inter-personal relationships within the Church. Jesus, our greatest everlasting friend, "...comforts...
Choosing good friends is a blessing and an art. For good friends make life sweeter, days brighter and our journey pleasant. Last evening around 6, I pulled away from my computer and paused because I detected a strange odor. I turned to hubby. “I smell smoke,” I told...
"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and...
PROVERBS 18:24 RSV "There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." Would you like to have a perfect friend? A friend who loved you no matter what you do? ...
Some of you who have read former devotionals of mine might remember my beautiful Shetland Sheepdog, Elsa. I've already recorded a number of lessons that she has taught me, and some of you may be saddened to hear that she is no longer with us. She developed...
There are MANY lessons to be learned from the prophet Elisha. This is the 13th in a series focusing on the life and works of this great prophet. "Naaman's servants went to him and said, 'My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have...
For years we lead an active life but health issues come visit us. The Master holds us in His hands when days are long, His touch expands. He moves us to a bright new home, nine hundred miles, no one we know; but neighbors down the hall we meet and Jesus word, they...
My name is Jonah. Now listen to me, As I tell you how I lived in the depths of the sea. It all started one day when I heard the Lord's voice. I had to make a terrible choice. "Go unto Nineveh," I heard the Lord say, "And cry out against their evil way." I well...
I wish, for you, blue sunny skies With laughter etched into your eyes. But, should it rain on you, my friend, I hope there's a rainbow at the end. I hope that all your dreams come true And that lady luck smiles down on you. I wish, for you, a happy face And hope God...
"I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love." (Song 2:3-4 NIV) When I was a little boy my Godfather lived on a hill above my home. "Little Frankie" as everyone called him was a...