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The Mountain: A New Perspective on Faith, Introduction
Yesterday there was a mountain on my driveway. Literally!Early in the morning a dump truck dropped 7 cu yards of gardening soil just in front of my garage. It would have to be moved – shovelful by shovelful into a wheel barrow, and then shovelful by shovelful -- into...
The Empty Garden Beds: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 2
On Tuesday, I told the story of how God moved my mountain -- literally! -- as my husband and I attempted to move 7 cu meters of gardening soil from our driveway to our new garden beds, one shovelful at a time, and all before the rains came.The garden beds were...
The Seed: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 3
On Tuesday and Thursday this past week, I told the story of how we built garden boxes and filled them with dirt, and how this gave me a whole new perspective on mountain-moving faith and the faith that Abraham must have had when he left his home to wander in a foreign...
The Research: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 4
My son, a PhD student, had fallen behind on his research. Much of this was due to a major comprehensive exam that, complicated by the fact that the university closed down due to COVID-19, took almost two semesters to complete. As a result, he was unable to meet his...
A Man Who Didn’t Die: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 5
We aren't told much about Enoch in the Bible. In fact, the sum of our knowledge comes from a few verses.First of all, we know his parentage: "When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch...When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of...
By Their Testimony: A New Perspective on Faith, Conclusion
We were moving all of the Sermon Illustrator files to a new, mobile-friendly format, and this has required hours of tediously copying old files, pasting them into the new format, and then reading them through in order to put them in appropriate categories. I am happy...
Summer Solstice, Part 2
With the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere just days away, my thoughts turn to how truly blessed we are to have sunshine. Sure, we don't get as much of it as we'd like to in December, but here in Canada we sure make up for it in June! As I think about this, I...
Summer Solstice, Part 1
I didn't need the calendar to tell me. Nor did I need to look outside at 7:00 am to see that it was still dark. No, it was my daylight soul and Vitamin D deprived spirit that screamed the message loud and clear: We're approaching the shortest day of the year! The...
Lenten Devotionals: Are You Sure?
"Now when [Jesus] rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene ... But when they heard that He was alive ... they would not believe it. ... He appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went...
Afraid
"When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome ... went to the tomb. ... And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them, 'Do not be alarmed....