"Don't let your hearts stray away toward her. Don't wander down her wayward path." — Proverbs 7:25 (NLT) We were sitting at the kitchen table having a family discussion. My grandson, Victor, showed signs of boredom, when he began to wiggle in his chair and gaze all...
Last week, in The Nehemiah Solutions, Part 1, we saw that risk taking is not so risky when we're taking risks for God Work! And so Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem, but what he found there was more than a ruined city without a protective wall. He found that the people,...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 12a, we discovered that the reason there is so much emphasis on sacrifices in the descriptions of Ezekiel's temple is because sacrifice is still vitally important for us today. The types of sacrifice have changed, but...
Christmas is just two days away. Are we ready? I believe I am. The Christmas tree has been up for 4 weeks, the house is nicely decorated. The snowman scene has been smiling at us for so long now that it's becoming covered with dust, and the buffalo snow around our...
In last week's lesson on the gates of Jerusalem, we saw that trials and tribulations will come in every Christian's walk, yet we will never be tried beyond what we can bear with God at our side. God gives us the time we need to learn to trust Him and lean explicitly...
Sarah looked in utter despondence. How could this be happening? He looked me in the eye and told me that he loved me. I was the one. He promised me the world, and all he delivered was my broken heart. Sad, lonely, rejected, hurt, lied too...
Australia Post recently created stamps of dangerous Australian creatures. One of them was of a red-backed spider, an extremely venomous spider and one that is quite common. In fact is it so prevalent, and the stamp so realistic, the stamp was not released for use. The...
Today, in the concluding part of our series on the orderliness of God with special reference to the perfect order in the Beatitudes, we come to the final three "pearls"… read beatitudes… Incorruption... "Blessed are the pure in heart..." (Matt...
Australian Magpies are user-friendly birds. They are people birds, that is, they make friends easily and because they live in families, you can have a resident family of Magpies for years on end. They will come for scraps of food and will learn to take them from your...
Though parts 1-3 of this series, we've look at the importance of protecting our spiritual gates - our eyes, our ears, our noses, our mouths, our feet, etc.-and we've examined practical ways of protecting them. But what happens when we do our best to protect ourselves...