Did you ever wish you had a recipe for success? A guide you could go to every time there is a question to be answered? A set of "How-to" instructions guaranteed to bring success into everything you touch? Good news, friends! You do! Let's go back to the book of...
Is it any wonder that God admonishes His children to study the scriptures? We could not begin to learn all that God provided for us when we accepted His offer of sins forgiven with just a casual reading of a verse or two when we have our devotions each day. Have you...
An analemma is the result of a year-long series of photographs of the sun, taken one week apart at exactly the same minute every week. A certain day and a specific time must be set aside each week for one whole year to take each shot and the process cannot be hurried...
If you look up on a starry night and see several thousand stars in the sky, do they make sense? Those who love them and seek to know them can tell the time and the season by them. They make perfect sense. Others have mastered the patterns and stories and can make...
I form a mental picture of Mary’s pain as she watched the agony of her Son’s death. When I read of His crucifixion in any of the Four Gospels, chills race up and down my spine. I cannot imagine or fathom how her heart ached, especially knowing His innocence of the...
"Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path." (Psalm 119:105, HCSB) [1] "Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, "This is the way you should go," whether to the right or to the left." (Isaiah 30:21, NLT) [2] Our town is a mail stop...
I was musing over how God provided manna from heaven to the Israelites and the thought struck me that it came from above. Not only did God provide food for the physical body to survive the wanderings in the desert, but the important and vital lesson is that every good...
How many times do you hear the phrase ‘where do I start?’. The answer is usually the beginning. When you buy a new book, opening that first page with all the newness of the pages, or if it is from the library the wondering how the opening few sentences will grab you....
When you open a book, you read it looking forward. The first pages reveal what is to come and the Bible is like that, too. I read it looking forward. I imagine the lovely garden with platypi and fishes watching from the edges of the water and birds hovering in wattle...
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness," (2 Timothy 3:16, ISV) [1] "And let us continue to consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together,...