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"The Lord made you; He formed you in the womb and he will help you." (Isaiah 44:2) "For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand." (Isaiah 41:13) The vine was going crazy. it was growing so fast and looking for something to grab onto all the time. Thin...
"Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed." (Proverbs 19:17) It was a chilly Autumn morning a few years ago. I was driving along the mountain roads slower than usual trying to take in all the Fall colors. It seemed like all...
God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you." (Hebrews 13:5) She wasn't much bigger than a pint of peanuts when she got a tricycle. Her dad taught her how to ride it. Next came a bicycle with training wheels. Her dad helped her learn to ride that,...
Members of our church are currently going through very difficult times. Their beautiful home just--blew up! I do not know any of the details about the cause of the explosion, when it happened, etc., for I have only been following the story through the pictures on...
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where...
Last Tuesday, in "God's Armour, Part 5", we saw that when we don the "Helmet of Salvation", we protect our most vulnerable body part, our mind. We do so by replacing the devil's lies with Truth, Truth that the victory is already won; by choosing to believe in what...
"O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water." (Psalms 63:1) Food. A necessity of life. One we all require, one most of us enjoy, and one that a few of us think...
Last Thursday, in "The Secret to Cheerful Giving, Part 1", we saw that not having enough to give is one huge barrier to cheerful giving. The first secret to cheerful giving, however, is that when we give according to how God asks us to give, we can be assured that God...
"Know God? Then you know peace. You don't always 'feel' that peace because you give it away by taking your eyes off the Prince of Peace!" That was my tweet the other morning. And I firmly believed it. In fact, I left my prayer closet thanking God for His peace and for...
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (1 John 4:18 NIV) As I write this we have been disconnected from the electric grid for 4 ½ weeks now. On a routine...
There are three different routes I can take to work. Two involve the use of our local highway, and one employs the backroads. Naturally, this third route is the prettiest…but also the longest... That week, as so often happens in the fall of the year, our stroke unit...
"O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8:1) One summer my husband and had the opportunity to travel to the emerald isle. The camera was attached to my wrist, where it was handy, since there was one great shot after another. On this...
Ezra the priest was horrified. The people committed to his care were involved in a grave sin: "Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites...have married women from these people and have taken them as wives for their sons. So the holy race...