"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness." (Colossians 2:6,7) What a sight! A miniscule island in the bay, thick with...
"Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. He went through Gilead and Manasseh and returned to Mizpah in Gilead and went on to Ammon. Jephthah promised the Lord: 'If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will burn as an offering the first person that...
"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good." (1 Peter 2:1-3 NIV)...
"He (Jesus) spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of Heaven is like leaven (yeast), which a woman takes and hides in three measures of meal until the whole is leavened." (Matthew 13:33 KJIIV) The recipe's instructions were to add the following ingredients as...
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...