"How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered. I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!" (Psalm 139:17,18) T-shirt City. That’s the corner of the closet where our T-shirts live, quite a few in fact. Some of the citizens of...
The planet, Venus, is notorious for troubling the peace. It looks like a large, bright object and when it is low in the evening sky, it is often distorted by earth’s atmospheric disturbances. It seems to travel or to dance or to change colour and people are sometimes...
"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." (John 1:4-5, NKJV) When you go through this life with your eyes open, you soon see that everything in it is a miracle. You realize that...
"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Revelation 22:1) One of the earliest sunday school stories I recall hearing is the one about David and Goliath. David, shepherd boy, who...
"He ... rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm." (Luke 8:25) Recently my husband was in Marathon, FL, ‘the heart of the beautiful Florida Keys’, for a fishing trip with some guys. He said it was windy and really rough out. I could...
"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above...
My Italian Grandmother was a wonderful woman. "Nanny" had a loving, vibrant soul that she carried around in a short, heavyset body. She had a passion for life that expressed itself in so many ways. It was in the hugs she gave, the meals she cooked, and the flowers she...
Wait a minute. "The Little Drummer Boy" was a religious song. Sort of. And "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" are pretty generic. But what is a song about Santa doing amongst a series of devotionals on Christmas Carols? That's what...
One of the fascinating "journeys" of the Bible is the walk of the two disciples of Christ from Jerusalem to Emmaus on the Resurrection Sunday (Luke 24:13-35) which eventually culminated in a speedy U-turn. The journey which began with confusion and sorrow would end in...
We hate it when anybody is accused unjustly and there are those who say God is cruel and vindictive. They say it because God said that anybody who chose another god above him would be punished "to the third and fourth generation" (Ex 20:5). As a result, yes, God is...