My husband’s channel surfing finally landed on the History channel recently. The program listed the world’s resources; gold, oil, and water, among other things. At the end of each segment, they stated the dollar amount of each resource in today’s market. At the end of the hour, they estimated the world’s total riches in so many quadrillion dollars. I don’t know about you, but I can’t get my head around that much money. All I can understand is that’s one…
Recently I spent the day with one of my granddaughters. She’ll be a senior in high school next year. We spoke of many things, but one stands out in my memory. She told me of accompanying a friend to a Planned Parenthood facility. Her friend’s mother instructed her to go there to get a pregnancy test. I’ll let you hear the conversation we had. “Mandy’s * mother was out of town so Mandy asked me to go with her.” “Why…
Over a year and a half ago, Ardythe Kolb and I decided to write a 365 day devotional. We have been friends and sisters in Christ for over 40 years. We divided the project this way: I sent Ardythe the scripture and the ending prayer, then she wrote the devotional and sent it back to me. I formatted it and in November 2012 we published it. Near the end of the year I helped her write some of the devotionals….
Jason Collins, an NBA basketball player came out this week announcing he was gay. He’s featured on the cover of Newsweek Magazine. It’s reported his Twitter account has thousands of new followers. President Obama called to congratulate him. There is a missing voice in all this. The Creator of the Whole Universe. The One Who Loves Him Best. The One who laid down very specific instructions both in the Old and New Testaments about homosexuality, among other subjects. Is anyone…
I recently attended a women’s retreat with my church. Our featured speaker, Sharon Beekmann, a marriage and family therapist, shared her testimony during the three-day conference. She told us how she became disillusioned with her faith at a young age and began to delve into Ouija boards, new age, and transcendental meditation practices to fill that void. She spent a great deal of time and energy learning to channel spirits in order to help her clients. After eleven years and…
Words from a video lingered in my mind: “God calls us to be salt. In ancient times, salt was added to animal droppings to make the fire hotter.” Those words came from a video entitled Focus on the Family’s That the World May Know series. This series is taught by Ray VanderLaan, an excellent Bible teacher. As I thought about VanderLaan’s statement, I questioned why anyone would want to make a fire hotter. • To make fire more efficient and…
Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” God sends us His word, and for the most part, we tend to leave our Bibles on the shelf. Unread. Collecting dust. How can we obey His word if we don’t even know what He says? What His conditions are. How can we seek Him if we don’t know Him? How can we know Him if we don’t read His love letter to us?…
Some people ask God for healing, don’t receive it, shrug their shoulders, and go away disappointed. We need to look deeper into God’s word. Jesus told us in Matthew 7:7, “Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” In the original Greek, those verb tenses read like this: “Ask and keep on asking; seek and keep on seeking; knock and keep on knocking, and it shall be…
In order to create less confusion, I’m going to try to consolidate my blogs into this one. I’m not all that tekky and keeping up with three blogs is more than I can handle. Each Monday I’m going to try to send out a short blog about healing based on scripture. I invite you to take this journey with me. Jesus says, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). Do you…