Lifestyles
We are to bring hope to a hurting world
Are you a believer in Jesus Christ? Is your faith in God strong enough to endure this season…
Lifestyles
Repentance is a daily task
The Psalms often have a short statement at the beginning, sometimes identifying their composer, sometimes with a musical…
Lifestyles
May our elections be driven by love
Tis the season of elections. If this is news to you, you are living in a cave somewhere…
Lifestyles
Lessons I learned from my cat
We had a Blessing of the Animals earlier this month, hosted by our neighboring church, Johns Memorial Episcopal.…
Lifestyles
Are we stuck in a rut, or do we rock the block for Jesus?
Are you stuck in a rut and do not realize it? Do you desire to get out, but…
Lifestyles
What are you looking at?
During this devotional I would like to think about what we look at and what we should be…
Lifestyles
We must learn to forgive the little things too
This pandemic has changed many things about our lives, but one thing it hasn’t altered is the need…
Lifestyles
It is time for planting oaks of righteousness
After the baptism of Jesus in the Jordon River and the temptations in the wilderness that followed, Jesus…
Lifestyles
Money, what is it good for?
What do we really need? In Paul’s first letter to Timothy he sets it out in Chapter 6.…
Lifestyles
God is in the pandemic
Have you found yourself wondering during the course of the coronavirus crisis where God is in all of…
Columns
Jesus rebutted the cancel culture
Who of us, when we reflect back over our lives, do not see things that we did, or…
Lifestyles
Unclean spirits testify to Jesus’ identity
In Mark, Jesus begins his ministry with a bang. His first act of ministry after his baptism, his…
Lifestyles
Farmville through a newcomer’s eyes
What do you do when you move to a new place? If you’re anything like my husband and…
Lifestyles
To keep receiving, we need to give
In Luke Chapter 7, verses 11-17 Jesus tells his disciples and us about prayer and forgiveness. There are…
Lifestyles
Are you like a sheep without a shepherd?
Numerous times in scripture we are compared with sheep. Isaiah the prophet, say’s “All of us like sheep…
Lifestyles
Only God can judge a person’s heart
I had a coworker once who asked me about a decision that we had made regarding a difficult…
Lifestyles
We must pass the test
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And…
Devotional
We need to pray always and never quit
There are times we are discouraged or tired and need a break. Jesus understands this and periodically takes…
Lifestyles
Rhythm is a vital part of who we are
Our very existence is based on rhythm. There is the beat, beat, beat of the heart, absolutely necessary…
Devotional
We must continue to love and let God lead us
As the story goes, a man and his family weathered a catastrophic storm. It raged mercilessly and ravaged…
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Find the path toward a glorious day
On the farm, I take daily walks. One of my favorite walking paths winds down into the woods,…
Lifestyles
In marriage, some talking to each other must occur
One major problem in most marriages is the lack of communication. Couples must make time to talk, verbalizing…
Lifestyles
Jesus lifts us up on rainy days, Mondays and every day
Years ago the late, great Karen Carpenter sang, “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” As I…
Lifestyles
Jesus is our Feast of Unleavened Bread
We can better understand the celebration of Easter from the seven feasts God gives Israel. Three of the…
Lifestyles
Jesus is our Feast of Unleavened Bread
We can better understand the celebration of Easter from the seven feasts God gives Israel. Three of the…
Lifestyles
Must we see to truly believe?
Do you believe in Easter? Do you believe in the resurrection? Some say, seeing is believing. Much of…
Devotional
We are not alone
It’s the end of another long week, but I don’t know what to say to you. We have…