Last week, in Lessons Before the Cross, Part 3, we saw that because God allows us to go through trials for very good reasons. But now that we understand "why" we go through trials, He wishes to convey to us some vital truths on "how" to go through them! "And He said...
The small squirrel, scurrying like crazy to get out of our way on the walkway, holding onto a good-sized pine cone; he wasn't about to lose his treasure! Amazing that he could grasp and drag something almost as large as he was. And how many times have you seen an ant,...
I was in my kitchen busy chopping onions for my favorite salmon dish the other day as I listened to a photographer being interviewed on the radio. He had gone into an odd adventure. After asking permission of dozens of folks, he took photographs of the inside of their...
Last Thursday, in Lessons Before the Cross, Part 5, we saw that prayer is our source of power our access to comfort and strength from above, and it is also our responsibility. But Jesus' Before-the-Cross lessons aren't yet finished. Let's go back to the Garden of...
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...
Oh Jesus! If only America would be truly wise! Then we would not believe the lies. We would not be ignorant as each unborn child dies. Oh Jesus! If only America were loving and kind. Then we would have innocent children in the womb always on each mind. Room for the...
Jesus, is there anything you do not know? Is there any place you can not go? Do you really love me when I am slow? Does your forgiveness really reach to the lowest of the low? Are you really strong enough to overcome the strongest foe? Jesus, I never tire of...
I can't move a mountain or turn the water into wine, Dry up a running fountain or cast demons into swine. I can't make a flower bloom or turn the ocean into sand. But, I know someone that did and I know someone who can. I can't make a blind man see or cause the lame...
In "The Gates of Jerusalem, Part 1" we discovered that gates, being an intricate part of the defense systems of ancient cities, held such significance to the old world that Jesus, in reference to His gift of Salvation, calls Himself the "small gate", the ONLY way to...
One of the pastors at my church recently said that this must be the era of inflatable lawn ornaments. As I was jogging through my neighbourhood in rural Canada that same evening, it occurred to me that he must be right. So many lawns now display inflatable snowmen,...