"Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine." (Prov 3:9-10 NIV) There are many phrases associated with the word “blank”, such a drawing a blank,...
"Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (I Corinthians 13:13) The time came for my mother in law to do a major sorting out. 10 years ago she went through this process when she became a widow and moved out of her large Florida home to an apartment...
Dear Friends, Permit me to make you play the game “spot the differences”. Can you find differences in the seemingly identical 2 paragraphs below? I am Suresh Manoharan a sinner saved by the Almighty’s grace and living by His grace for the last 27 years. Even...
I heard a Nobel Peace Prize winner say once there were things she just had to do or she would die. I know what she meant. I have to grow things. So on the dry and barren hillside that was my garden-to-be, I made plant areas. The soil protested, the weeds protested and...
As a Senior citizen, I often think back to my childhood and the way we improvised, to compensate for lack of money. I smile when I remember the things my brothers and sisters and I did for snacks, so many years ago. It was during the years of the great depression and...
I pray that you will find this message worth while. It is not me jumbling on about something; I am jumbling on about something that I base my life around, so that I am not stressed about pleasing God. Read until the end so you may learn the whole message. I pray that...
Recently I received an e-mail forward about a 15 year old who had been abducted. I prayed for the boy, but as I don't make a habit of forwarding e-mail, I deleted it. End of story. The next day, I received the same email, from someone else I know. Then, suddenly, I...
I am sitting here at my computer screen, staring at a blank page. I am here because I wish to write a devotional, but the longer I sit and stare at the screen, the more I realize that I have no idea what I should write! I hear this happens to writers. I believe they...
She was the nicest girl you could ever meet. All the people of the town really admired her and if you were a young mother needing medical treatment, you would call on her to mind your children while you were away. Children loved her. She also visited the home for the...
East indians have something to be proud of in the business field! Well for once it has nothing to with the sophisticated, suit-clad ones’ taking over giant companies globally but everything to do with rustic businessmen wearing primitive dhotis and Gandhi topis!...