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Today in the concluding part of series on truth in each of the three cardinal Christian doctrines, today we shall focus on the truth regarding... Glorification... "However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or...
Being a shy person by nature, witnessing isn't something that comes natural for me. Oh, it's easy enough to write about God and send it across the world to people who you will never meet, but to take those same words and share them, either in written or verbal form,...
A few weeks ago, hubby cleaned the garage. I filled plastic bags of items and we gathered all to donate to the Orlando Rescue Mission. Christmas season soon came and hubby was fulfilling his own mission to help decorate. He pulled the Christmas tree out of the box. It...
Sometimes it might be tough, but never too late to find the correct direction and head in the triumphant path for our lives. From time to time I ask myself why God chose to bless me with friends who don't mind going out with me. What I mean is that heading out with a...
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God." (1 John 4:7) After all of these years I can still remember the first time I placed my newborn baby son into my Grandmother’s arms. Nana by that time was 77...
She grew up in an isolated rural area and her clothing illustrated the practical nature of her life. In other words, it was adequate and comfortable but unimportant. Then her life changed and her family moved to a community that had other values. Her immediate elders...
I was watching some reunion videos the other day. Those are the ones where the serviceman or servicewoman returns home after many months to surprise their families. One in particular widened my smile and moistened my eyes at the same time. In it a five year old little...
Weeks of preparation to decorate the house, do all the baking and cooking, select the perfect gits, wrap them, put them under the tree, send out Christmas greetings, organize and attend parties and dinners, make travel arrangements; and after just a few brief hours,...
With wrinkled tissue in hand, we stomp our feet in frustration. We had asked, prayed and pleaded. But, to our utter disappointment, God still said, "No." Have you been there? God didn't smile at us with the answer we wanted. But that's not the worst. We look around...
I was delighted to find celeriac in the local farmer's market this morning. This strange-looking root vegetable, also called turnip-rooted celery, knob celery, and sometimes celery root, is a variety of celery cultivated for its edible roots, hypocotyl, and shoots. As...
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see...
"in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." (1 Thess 5:18) It was a cool November afternoon and I was standing ankle deep in leaves with a rake in my hand. The trees were almost all bare and it was time to rake the leaves before the...
Grandma was looking forward to a ‘nice hot cuppa tea,’ as she would say. She spooned two teaspoons of leaf tea into the teapot, boiled the electric jug, and then she poured the boiling water into the teapot. To keep it hot and fresh, she covered it with a very old...