What happens after the honeymoon? Reality sets in. The husband and wife begin to let down their guard and show their true colors. The marriage vows were laid on a sure foundation of true love and commitment or on the sand of lust and deception. How well do a man...
The words I speak most often: "FATHER, HELP ME!" ~ Isaiah 41:10 "FORGIVE ME, LORD." ~ Matthew 6:12 "THANK YOU, LORD!" ~ Psalm 100:4 ~ because He promises to hear and answer; to be with me; and show me His way. "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD...
Olivia's Thanksgiving Greeting ~ 2007 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Last week as William was bagging our groceries he asked, "Are you getting ready for Thanksgiving Day?" When I answered, "Everyday is thanksgiving day!" he said, "I wish...." Not hearing what he had wished, I asked...
Jesus warns us that there will be a separation of the sheep from the goats. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats." Matthew 25:32 Where did parents get the idea of...
TODAY is a portion of my inheritance~a small part of what God, my Father, has promised through His Son for eternity. How I spend it proves where it came from. It is an allowance given to sustain me here in this wilderness; and while here on this earth to prepare me...
(Stay with me---the best wine is reserved for last.) Our children and grandchildren came today to celebrate the birthday of our youngest child, our daughter, Lee. For more than forty years we have witnessed what God, our heavenly Father, has been doing in this one...
How could they give all? How could they lay it down? Was it for crimes that they had done ~~~ or was it for a crown? How could they die, so firm and sure ~~~ without a shade of doubt? Was it for show or spectacle? Was their faith that stout? How could they stand...
The blind and the deaf will not be watching the Debate between the candidates. They have already made up their minds as to who they will vote for. The same is true of those who will not read or listen to the truth of the Gospel. Jesus Christ has been in debate with...
"It is a gross mistake to consider the Sabbath as a mere festival of the Jewish Church, deriving its whole sanctity from the Levitical law. The abrogation of that law no more releases the worshippers of God from the observation of the Sabbath, than it cancels the...