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"O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8:1) One summer my husband and had an opportunity to visit one of our beautiful national parks. Our camera wasn’t new, but I never had learned all the ins and outs of it. Good thing it had an...
"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two...
"Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, if ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree; but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all...
The world is resounding a song of an economic crisis. The song they are singing is , “This is one of the most tumultuous times on record in the global financial markets.” The financial indicators have indicated major instability, cutbacks, retrenchment and shortfalls....
We share the faith God has given us, with such excitement, being we have such Good News! To share; hoping family will join in that faith, only to be left discouraged in the fact that they do not. And as a result, we become painfully aware of the need to change...
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Psalm 105:4 Things didn’t go quite like I’d planned today. “Imagine that,” I thought. Well, if there is one thing in life we can be certain of, it’s change. When our kids were growing up, I recall feeling...
"All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel. But Stephen full of the Holy Spirit looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God. Look, he said, I see heaven open and the son of Man standing...
“Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” (Psalms 37: 4) Right before Christmas in the year that I turned 71 years of age, for some reason I started thinking about the chocolate meringue pies that Mama used to make every...
"Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?'" Matthew 18:21 NIV Dundee is a huge marmalade boy that lives at my house. Dundee has many things to be thankful for - like his loving...
I opened my bible this morning at 1 Kings Chapter 18. The scene is set with the Prophet Elijah. It is three years into a very severe drought. Times are hard there is no water either physically or spiritually. Finally, into the third year of the drought, the LORD...
"I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11) The devil sends people your way at your work place, in your area, even in your church to get your attention, to keep your...
".....and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." (Revelation 5:8) I was hurriedly trying to retrieve Email I had deleted by mistake. No such luck. It was gone from that big E- mailbox in the sky. I was reminded of old...
Make way, make way, clear out, do not disturb Him, He needs to get through. The disciples could cry that from the very deepest voice, blow it from the loudest horn or scream it from the mountain tops but nothing would stop the crowds from pressing themselves against...