Total Dependence
Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour…[but] My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never...
View ArticleOn Alert
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come…So you must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Matthew 24:42,44 When Sheba...
View ArticleLonely? Never Again!!!
Isolated in an exam room while waiting for my doctor (who was running very late!), I was a victim of the ‘canned music’ that played throughout the office. I must admit, it wasn’t too bad for a baby...
View ArticleA Stubborn Streak
Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen. For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you admonished them through your prophets. Yet they...
View ArticleReady to Get Wet
In this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while you may have to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though...
View ArticleBe Encouraged
Let the people of God be encouraged! The unrighteous decision of the US Supreme Court this week is an affront to God as well as to His people, and it is surely one more nail in the coffin leading to...
View ArticleBody Language
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 Sheba has a cute, curly little pug tail. When she’s happy that funny little tail wriggles back...
View ArticleA Song of Hope
Like many of us, my cousin, Crystal Kain Ross, felt overwhelming grief at the Supreme Court’s decision to endorse gay marriage. Soon though, she realized that God had not been caught unaware, He is...
View Article11:11—What Does it Mean?
The 11:11 phenomenon poses a familiar question to many people, “What does it mean?” It’s a question my husband and I have pondered almost daily as one or the other, or both of us, ‘just happen’ to...
View ArticleMaking a Statement
Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. Matthew 10:32 Kevin had a t-shirt with a picture of a pug on the front. On the back, lots of paw prints and...
View ArticleRunning in Circles
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. Psalm 62:5-6 One of Sheba’s favorite pastimes when she was...
View ArticleDie, So We Can Live
The United States of America. This is my county, the land that I love, and I’m forever grateful to have been born here. Historically, our country has been well known as one nation under God, with the...
View ArticleGreat Insurance
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the...
View ArticleDe Rigeuer
De rigeuer. It’s the word that was in my mind the moment I awoke this morning, and I can’t even imagine a scenario in which that would’ve been my first thought! Knowing it had to be a piece of a...
View ArticleA New Interest
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to...
View ArticleHurry Up and Wait
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand...
View ArticleBitter Medicine
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has...
View ArticleFear’s Antidote
God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful…There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who...
View ArticleAging Gracefully
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old...
View ArticleThe Fall Season of Life
It’s an unusual day for me! I’m up early and out on my patio at the crack of dawn with my Bible, journal and, of course, my morning latte. This is not my normal mode of operation because I’m much more...
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