"If you knew the gift of God...you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." (John 4:10) Large clumps of fuschia colored flowers are planted in the round clay pots on our back deck. They are hardy, as well as butterfly attractors. Yesterday...

"He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm 121:3-4) Patches of anemone type flowers in bright yellows and neon pinks clustered about our front walkway. So eye-catching,...

"Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.'" (John 4:10) "Jesus answered and said to her, 'Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whoever...

"Over a hundred years? Who in the world wants to live that long!" my friend said as she read the story of the man who has been documented as living the longest in modern times--a Bolivian man, reported to be 123 years old. Carmelo Flores Laura recently died after...

It was the strangest thing. My pillow was lumpy. What in the world? I thought as I reached inside the pillowcase and pulled out several of my favorite scarves one right after the other—my red, green, and lavender. “Young lady,” I called out to my six-year-old...

Dwight L. Moody’s favorite verse was Isaiah 12:2: "I will trust, and not be afraid." He used to say: "You can travel first-class or second-class to heaven. Second class is, 'What time I am afraid, I will trust.' First class is, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'" That...

During my elementary school days I went on several field trips to what you might call a theme park called Frontierland which was in western North Carolina. It was a big fort that you could go inside to see how the pioneers and Indians lived. The pioneers made forts to...

In the old detective stories the detectives would bring a suspect in. then one of the detectives would say to another one, "Give him the third degree."  That man would then start interrogating the suspect. The other day I heard on an old radio show where the...

Do you feel like you are being threshed like wheat? Are there so many things going on in your life that you think you can’t bear one more bad thing? Read what the prophet Isaiah wrote: "The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. He doesn’t...

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7) Uh oh. It was beginning to get bumpy. Fifteen or twenty thousand feet above the earth, our commuter plane was experiencing turbulence. “Everyone, please...